On Religion

[bohemianrose24]

I was reading an article today about Pope John Paul II and his path to sainthood. Being of mixed mind about God and religion to begin with, though having an avid fascination with the lengths people will travail for entrance into whatever heaven they believe in (aka what people do in the name of religion), I decided to check out what they had to say

Comments

[shysweetie]

I am not particularly up-to-date on the sainthood process, so my opinions are totally uninformed. From everything that I've heard, however, it sounds like John Paul II deserves to become a saint. Like you, I'm not so sure what to think about miracles. My immediate reaction to this whole situation was "who cares whether John Paul was responsible for a miracle? He was a good person and a good pope. The idea that he should be disqualified from the running simply because he may not have been responsible for a miracle (which really ought to be coming from God, shouldn't it?) is complete BS." But I don't know. Catholicism really isn't my forte.

[bohemianrose24]

There was definitely a part of me that wondered what made this story major news. And honestly I've always wondered why anyone cared about the miracle part, especially now when miracles are so much harder to define. If you revere a person for living a good and virtuous life, maybe that's enough. And I definitely wondered why people are attributing miracles to people and not to God. I'm sure they use very fancy wording, something like "And this miracles that came from God was created by the intercession of x potential saint of behalf of the receiver of the miracle who lived a pious life and prayed every day to God and x potential saint for help".