[George W. Bush]

So you go and look up the most outrageous, extreme example so you can ridicule it.

Fiacre is hardly obscure. Actually, I was looking for the patron saint of pigs and Portugal and was going to mention the financial advantages of being a Portugese pig farmer. But I couldn't find that one and this one jumped out at me.

So, exactly why is it a bad thing for those Christian converts who suffer from veneral disease and hemorrhoids to know that they have someone in Heaven praying for them?

Send them to a doctor instead. Even a Protestant doctor.

God's grants us reason so we can practice medicine and other sciences as part of His mercy toward us.

[alamo boy]

**So, exactly why is it a bad thing for those Christian converts who suffer from veneral disease and hemorrhoids to know that they have someone in Heaven praying for them?***

***Send them to a doctor instead. Even a Protestant doctor.***

They could call priest to lay hands on the afflicted region of the patient. Annointing it with oil or some other preparation (for some reason the letter "h" comes to mind).