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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse; caww
Another point has to be made regarding the despising of relics.

How do you treat the remains of your relatives? Do you regard their remains as rotten? Or do you treat their remains reverently?

I'm sure it's the latter. Sometimes people are buried underground in expensive caskets. Sometimes the caskets are kept above ground in mausoleums. Sometimes the remains are cremated and kept in an urn in a home. A loved one might kiss a casket at the burial, kiss a headstone or kiss a cremation urn. All of these are ways of expressing love in a reverent manner.

The remains of saints aren't due any less respect.

3,473 posted on 12/28/2014 5:35:54 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; caww

You could always boil them and make soup.


3,475 posted on 12/28/2014 5:43:55 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
...."How do you treat the remains of your relatives? Do you regard their remains as rotten? Or do you treat their remains reverently?"......

Once buried we leave them buried, unlike the catholic grave robbers who dig up their's to make relics and icons from them, and or adorn church walls with their bones and skulls....which is everything but reverent or respectful of the deceased

Nor do we raid their graves to make corpse idols to be worshipped as catholics do


3,476 posted on 12/28/2014 5:54:40 PM PST by caww
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; Rides_A_Red_Horse; caww

Yeah, we treat them reverently. We don’t dig up their remains and put them on display or build churches out of them.

We let them rest in PEACE.


3,761 posted on 12/29/2014 4:58:50 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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