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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:19 PM Feb 2019

Secular saints, folk saints and plain old celebrities [View all]

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On a recent Sunday in church, the officiating priest invited us (as he does every Sunday) to pray. We prayed for those you might call the “usual suspects”: for the bishop, for those in positions of political authority, for the recently departed.
But among those we also prayed for was “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – and for all the other saints … ”...

If you’re looking for more politically loaded saints, the online handcraft marketplace Etsy has plenty of sellers hawking “progressive saint” candles depicting St. Barack Obama, St. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Robert Mueller and even “Notorious” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, heralded as the “angel of everlasting dissent.”

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Secular saints, folk saints and plain old celebrities [View all] guillaumeb Feb 2019 OP

I guess by the time you're writing articles for ReligionNews, everything is religious to you. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #1

And to paraphrase the villain from The Incredibles... trotsky Feb 2019 #2

To a man with (only) a hammer ... Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #3

Tsk, tsk. trotsky Feb 2019 #4

If only we knew what such bridging would look like. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #5

Good thing there was no train on that trestle. MineralMan Feb 2019 #6

Interesting that the 2 of you have the same approach to dialogue. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #9

Is it? MineralMan Feb 2019 #10

Perhaps you are too close to the forest to see the trees. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #11

Or, perhaps, cliches are not useful. MineralMan Feb 2019 #12

And you might want to step farther back and look again. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #13

Do you see yourself as performing well in this particular exchange? Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #18

I see 2 frequent posters engaging in the same behavior, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #20

I think you might consider looking up the definition of the word "parody" Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #22

I disagree. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #23

Of course you do. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #29

You mashed that metaphor. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #14

Understanding the concept of metaphor isn't all that easy, really. MineralMan Feb 2019 #16

I assumed that you would understand my point. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #21

You assume many things that are incorrect. MineralMan Feb 2019 #24

Do you ever make that mistake? eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #25

Probably. MineralMan Feb 2019 #26

There is hope. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #27

For some, there is hope, at least. MineralMan Feb 2019 #28

Here's "can't see the forest for the trees" in many languages: MineralMan Feb 2019 #17

No matter the language, n'importe quelle langue, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #19

If you step back from the forest it continues to look like a forest until you are so far back Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #30

Your explanation was missent. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #32

Would it really kill you to just give an "Oops, my bad" and move on? trotsky Feb 2019 #33

We all know the bridge isn't important. trotsky Feb 2019 #7

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do Major Nikon Feb 2019 #15

At most, secular "saints" are probably deliberate religious parody. Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #8

Jesus is toast? Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #31