Re: Saints

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From: IUL Labor <IUL-Schleswig_at_t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 16:18:08 +0200

Peter replying to Jose
> Within _one_ faith, you could have your Follower meditating
> in the wilderness while at the local village church, the wizard
> Intercedes for the Saints on the behalf of his flock? But instead
> you want to have credo-style fights over such a trivial matter where
> there are far more spiritually important divisions within Malkionism.

Exactly. That's part of the fun with religious debate, people keep arguing about meaningless trivia while major issues remain unsolved. Not unlike a certain mailing list, really... ;-)

> I do not believe that the average
> village priest, for instance, needs to have acquired a Saint
> as a patron before invoking him.

Interesting. Are you proposing an impersonal access to saintly blessings the same way the congregation gets access to the blessings of the Invisible God? Did the village have to establish a congregational patronage to be able to invoke the saint? (Putting up a properly vested shrine, for instance?)