Worship of Saints

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:48:55 +1200


David Cake:

>Yes, I think standard Saint worship is usually adopted theist magic

No, it is not.

>- - which doesn't mean its the same as theist magic, in most cases its
>merely similar, and similar to hero worship rather than worship of deities
>generally.

Hero worship is not unique to theists. Therefore I fail the point of making anything remotely associated with hero worship theist in origin.

> I think that the only meaningful way to speak of gaining wizardly
>benefits from saint worship is if a saint is the original creator of a
>particular spell

I do not believe the Saints are restricted to this. They should be capable of miracolous intervention and not just be deified spell-makers.

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