Well God, you've come through...in a way. Instead of sending me to a boring godless school, you've sent me to a godless madhouse. I mean seriously
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I'm Catholic, Blake. Belief is basically my thing. As to how I'd take it: why not find out. The worst that happens is that I spend the next several days chanting to myself in Latin.
My mom used to be Catholic, and that's not what SHE says...but whatever.
I can only tell you about things that happened this year, and I was gone for large chunks of that, so...yeah. A few events of potential interest:
1) I'll let Neddy tell you about the time travel stuff. For now.
2) Everybody hated Mr. Roberts, the English teacher. On the night of the formal dance last fall (to which no one brought date rape drugs despite the creepy anonymous messages left on lots of people's journals), someone conked him over the head and put him in a coma. He eventually woke up and went back to work, but he didn't know who did it. Then he had a seizure and while he was in the hospital someone poisoned him...Aphra tells it better...3) Neddy and Aphra blew up a stump on Aphra's godfather's property, and Ann Radcliffe found a weird locket in the resulting hole. It turned out to contain a demon that possessed her on and off for several weeks until Aphra and Neddy managed to get rid of it by means of holy water and its own stupid vanity
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And pray to hundreds of others! Your saints are gods--minor ones, maybe, but gods nonetheless. I've even met a few of them. They're not quite the same people they were when they were alive, though, since what keeps them going is belief...and what people believe of you can change.
We don't pray to Saints as we pray to God. If Saints were Gods, it would defeat the whole point of Sainthood. The saints (with a little s) are merely those people who are now in heaven, while the Saints are those who the Church is sure are in heaven and whose intercession God has answered with miracles. All good things that come from the saints are the work of God, they have no power without him.
How can you have met a Saint? One of the things that makes them a Saint is that they are dead. If I went back in time and met Peter the Apostle, he still wouldn't be St. Peter, because he was alive then. Who do you claim to have met?
I keep trying to explain things to people, but they usually end up more confused than before.
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The fact that I can't get anyone to give me answers scares me more.
What do I call you, O ye of little help?
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I can try to explain things if you want, but I'm not sure you'd believe me. And of course I don't know how you'd react if you did...
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I'm Catholic, Blake. Belief is basically my thing. As to how I'd take it: why not find out. The worst that happens is that I spend the next several days chanting to myself in Latin.
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I can only tell you about things that happened this year, and I was gone for large chunks of that, so...yeah. A few events of potential interest:
1) I'll let Neddy tell you about the time travel stuff. For now.
2) Everybody hated Mr. Roberts, the English teacher. On the night of the formal dance last fall (to which no one brought date rape drugs despite the creepy anonymous messages left on lots of people's journals), someone conked him over the head and put him in a coma. He eventually woke up and went back to work, but he didn't know who did it. Then he had a seizure and while he was in the hospital someone poisoned him...Aphra tells it better...3) Neddy and Aphra blew up a stump on Aphra's godfather's property, and Ann Radcliffe found a weird locket in the resulting hole. It turned out to contain a demon that possessed her on and off for several weeks until Aphra and Neddy managed to get rid of it by means of holy water and its own stupid vanity ( ... )
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Speaking of which, He could always help us out with the kittens...
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There is no god but God. Really...not even monotheists. No wonder this place is insane.
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I thought you were Catholic? Catholics are polytheistic.
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How can you have met a Saint? One of the things that makes them a Saint is that they are dead. If I went back in time and met Peter the Apostle, he still wouldn't be St. Peter, because he was alive then. Who do you claim to have met?
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