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In the Catholic theology, there's a concept of Saints, who are basically humans that intercede with God on the behalf of ordinary mortals. People will sometimes
by xkcd-sucks 6y ago
In the Catholic theology, there's a concept of Saints, who are basically humans that intercede with God on the behalf of ordinary mortals. People will sometimes address prayers to saints in the hope that the prayer will be more effective. Probably similar in other religions too but I'm pulling from memories of catholic school
- krick 6y agoThis is ridiculously accurate and totally makes sense.
- scsilver 6y agoThe 21st century is making me rethink how atheist I truely am. I think by following the moral code of face masks and social distancing, I will spare my family from plague and those who scoff at these codes will get smited. I put my faith and security into these big corps that don't even have an corporeal existance, and work with us through intermediaries like Amazon through ups and Microsoft through gamestop, Google doesnt even have a customer service branch and I had no way but to dig up my old school email in order to prove to them I am who I say I am. I tithe to the market, my funding of corps will pay back in future wealth. I perform rituals with my team chanting a praying that azure will stop acting wonky. God help us all .
- cgh 6y ago> I perform rituals with my team chanting a praying that azure will stop acting wonky. Same but with our Jenkins builds, which appear to be entirely non-deterministic. "Perhaps the praying will help," I think to myself as I create my PR.
- kthejoker2 6y agoThere are no atheists in ops roles?
- GFischer 6y ago"I perform rituals with my team chanting a praying that azure will stop acting wonky." so accurate it hurts
- mindfulplay 6y agoToo close to home here.
- cultofmetatron 6y agobuddhism has Bodhisattva that perform a similar purpose
- rthomas6 6y agoThey don't intercede for some authority, though. Bodhisattvas are more like the folks that hold the door open for people and don't leave until everyone else has.
- dhritzkiv 6y agoHuh. I grew up Catholic and I never understood the point of praying to saints. I always chalked it up to superstition. Your explanation sort of makes sense,
- lovegoblin 6y ago> I always chalked it up to superstition. I mean. It still is.
- GreenWatermelon 6y agoIt is superstition, same here for my Muslim country, people pray at the tombs of dead Imams, though it is shunned by almost all scholars, but ignorance begets superstition. This is a reason why better education for all is the way forward for humanity.
- thinkingemote 6y agoI wonder where angels would fit in?
- edm0nd 6y agoSpeaking of, https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/world/teenager-beatified-church-intl-scli/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/world/teenager-beatified-chur...
- pjc50 6y ago.. and prior to the reformation, people would pay priests to pray to the saints to intercede on their behalf. People got so upset about the Catholic church selling the right to bend the divine rules that one guy wrote an extremely angry listicle, made a viral post on a church door, and the rest is history. And centuries of sectarian warfare. (Seriously, most of the 95 theses are about indulgences: https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html )