What is odd about unity among the communion of all saints, past, present and future?
Keeping physical relics of witnesses to Christ are a way to express physically the closeness we have to all who profess Christ.
You and I both know lots of folks who have a lock of hair or a tooth as a momento of their children or some other loved one.
This is likely only “creepy” to those who want to criticize the Church.
What is odd or even the least bit troubling about acknowledging that we can mark the passing of a Christian witness in a substantive way that can inspire unity and faith among His followers by calling to mind in a strong way a dead man’s memory and witness to Christ?
If this is creepy and odd and un-Christian, then funerals are even more fully subject to the very same critique. If you will declare all rituals of mourning and marking the passing of a person are creepy/odd/un-Christian.
Men may worship whatever god they choose..what ever blood they choose.. free country
Do they install them in alters in their homes?
Come on. That analogy falls so flat.
I really don’t want to knock the church, but if we are not to Judge others, why does the church Judge that some people are saints? It is the same Judgment to judge a sinner as a saint, and God says we as Christians are not to do that......just sayin’....