“Patron Saints” are supposedly entities you can pray to to intercede on your behalf with God. Although not biblical in any way, these entities can ‘put in a good word’ for you if, for instance, you are an “Anesthetist” and need help with your patient dosing (pray to Saint Rene Goupil) or if you have an issue with fuzzy caterpillars (pray to Magnus of Füssan), or even if you wanted to levitate (pray to any of these: http://saints.sqpn.com/saints-who-had-the-gift-of-levitation/).
Catholics get a lot more “bang for their bucks” than Protestants. Protestants merely pray to God through Christ.
Catholics appear to have a lot more "crazy" fun with God.
What the Catholic Church is doing is like advertising far and wide that only certain great and holy Christians whom they recognize officially are saints, but then in the many pages of fine print they say that all Christians are saints. It would be interesting to include a question on sainthood in a poll of Americans and in other counties on people’s knowledge of Christianity. Why does the Catholic Church use its power and position this way?
And things have been said that the Catholic Church doesn’t claim to “make” saints, but that is obviously not the issue. Of course they will credit God for that. But Catholics themselves speak very sloppily and are double-tongued about it, and haveno interest in correcting the media. A woman on Catholic radio just talked about there being “new saints.” If they were saints that the church just reconized, then they’re not “ new saints.” (Cont’d)