3athompson
3athompson t1_je0mtxt wrote
Reply to comment by Dr_Emmett_Brown_4 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys
Eh, the intermediary deities to the heavenly bureaucracy like the Kitchen God are still full-on deities in their own right.
Others, like Guan Yu(Guandi) and Matzu, are much more directly gods, especially in California.
The distinction between a saint and a God may matter in Christianity but it doesn’t necessarily matter in other religions.
3athompson t1_je1738v wrote
Reply to comment by Dr_Emmett_Brown_4 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys
If I might ask, what do you consider the difference between saint and god to be? I’m specifically talking about small g god, not the big G God of a monotheistic religion.