Submitted by ALasagnaForOne t3_11dqv3q in todayilearned
Reply to comment by iTwango in TIL the deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. The poet Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians. by ALasagnaForOne
I mean, Christianity's symbol is literally a torture device, so it's not much of a logical leap to venerate other torture devices that their saints died in.
I guess you're right. But I would be equally weirded out to be in the presence of the supposed actual bloody cross of Jesus for example. I went to a church in Belgium that claimed they had a vial with a bloody rag soaked in the actual blood of Jesus. They'd take it out and do a ceremony. That weirded me out too.
In some churches they keep relics of saints, that is old and decomposed body parts that once belonged to that "saint" and they pray to those things and kiss them. And they called others pagans man.. That's some vodoo shit right there.
Stranger still is we are supposed to take the supposed Jesus relics at face value. I mean, how can we really know if the rag has the actual blood of Jesus?
You’re talking about a religion here, blindly believing in insane stories with zero evidence whatsoever is literally a requirement for participation.
Religion was a great way to transition from tribalism to modernism. It melded society into a cohesive unit. A natural phenomena, we would be in the stone age without it. To dismiss it is ignorant.
I mean why? It's a bit of their god from the time he did the thing he's most famous for. It's not they are disrespecting his sacrifice or something
But you could kill a deer, say god lives in its heart, then eat the heart raw out of your hand. They aren’t being disrespectful of the sacrifice but it’s still weird and creepy
They aren't doing that though?
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