I've been to a cathedral-turned-museum in Germany and I cannot stress how many human remains of questionably saintly origin were on display. The catholics are NOT ok. Please bury your dead, please. Please!
That they ever kicked up such a fuss about the material actuality of transubstantiation says it all, doesn't it? It's not symbolic cannibalism, fellas, it's real shit! Got a problem with that? Piss off m8
"I am the LORD your GOD! This is my creation, perfect in all ways...except that little bit of dickskin, ya'll gotta cut that off."
Lmao imagine being the merchant selling that to some stupid fucking crusader
“Yes this is most certainly Jesus’ foreskin and not intestinal slough from my brother’s sheep flock“
Geez, I was just thinking this last night. Not to go all Jordan Peterson, but can you imagine what things would look like without the somewhat exemplary life of Jesus Christ still remembered in the US?
Okay, this but with a great caravan of amphibious Ford F-350s stretching from San Francisco to the Holy Land and I think you've synthesised something Americans might latch on to.
You can still kind of do this, The Way of St. James is still a very popular pilgrimage route in Spain and there are other routes in Europe. You hike across Spain with just a change of cloths and stay in these tiny Spanish villages with communal pilgrim inns and good cheap food. You get to meet people from around the world, most of whom are not total tradcath psychos, and walk with them for a whole day. Its also lost some of the religious character, I went with my mom a couple years ago and we are both very lasped Catholics, and we met a decent number of agnostic/atheist people just there to hike or who liked history.
"Uh akshully since I'm a protestant I don't believe people's material needs matter all compared to not burning in hell forever, so no I'm good never doing anything for anyone other than handing them a tract"
to be fair, that is a narrow understanding of Protestantism.
There is definitely a section that really stress the "through faith alone" thing.
But there are also alot that were and are part of the Social Gospel Movement that started in the latter half of the 1800's.
Mary's mom was also important for whatever reason to Catholics, and she apparently had all 7 of her heads preserved after death.
I say all 7 because the church recognized all 7 as legitimate even though they were all around contemporaneously some time in the renaissance.
There were at some point 3 foreskins of Jesus, too, which is at least possible if he had one hell of a long foreskin.
When I was a child I had a neato necklace with a piece of shriveled saintly skin in it. Growing up Catholic is weird
