Beatification was/is a mechanism that the RCC used/uses to intergrate existing deities, that had/have strong support in the indiginous population, into the christian diaspora There is no need to wipe a pagan religion out, just build a church on thier sacredsites and call thier god a saint It was a method used by the Pagan Romans to great effect. Dont destroy, assimilate I'm sure in the future we will have a St Justin of Beiber
I swore to myself I wouldn't become a Protestant through all the challenges from classmates, and, gosh darn it, if that happens, I very well may become a Protestant.
That reminds me of a friend who went to a very highly rated convent school as a girl. She did well and eventually became head girl. When the time came to leave the Mother Superior arranged a visit from a local careers officer. My friend was asked by the mother superior what she wanted to do when she left school, she replied, "I want to be a prostitute". Cue massive uproar, the mother superior shrieked then fainted, one of the other nuns grabbed my friend, and another got the mother superior back into her chair and got her a drink of water while she recovered herself. "What did you just say girl?" shouted the mother superior. "I want to be a prostitute" said my friend. "Thank God for that" said the mother superior, "I thought you said you wanted to be a Protestant".
Thats hillarious! Haha, if nobody caught on, my response was very light hearted to a very light hearted comment earlier. Well, if Justin Bieber becomes a saint, well, I must respect that decision, but that will be long past when I'm gone from this Earth, including the rest of us. We won't have to trouble ourselves with that happening haha. He will probably the Patron Saint of Terrible Musicians. (No offense to any who like him).
