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I am not disagreeing with the answer Mr. Shea gave exactly. But the question he was responding to was very different from the one posed by the OP, about praying to aborted babies.
The babies @PopeADope is praying to don't meet Shea's standards for Canonized Saints. That doesn't mean that they aren't innocent and pure. It might be interesting to hear his response to the OP.
Very interesting!
That's basically a folk Catholicism continuation of the worship of the Aztec death goddess, Mictecacihuatl. It's similar to Our Lady of Guadalupe being a Catholic syncretism of Mary with the Aztec goddess, Tonantzin. I find that one of the cool aspects of Catholicism, in that it's able to absorb the religious cultures of the cultures it encounters, and not wipe them out completely, making it a truly multicultural religion while maintaining unity. It's a point of pride for me. In fact, many Christian Saints are actually demoted pre-Christian deities, especially a lot of the earlier ones (St. Brigid and Elijah the Thunderer are examples). You also have African disapora communities combining West African Vodun with Catholicism, leading to paths like Louisiana and Haitian Voodoo. The Loa are often equated to Angels and Saints, and are pretty similar to them in their functions, anyway. (West African traditional religion already believes in a Creator God in the first place, so it wasn't that hard to combine it with Catholicism.)
I think aborted Fetuses must be great Saints with a very high standing in Heaven. They were slain while completely innocent and sinless. I invoke them for help and write letters and Novenas to them. Anyone else here ever done something like that or am I special
I lost my virginity to a girl who talked to her aborted fetuses and had names for them. I think they are soldiers for Christ!
Thank you for sharing that. Coincidence is often how spirits speak to me.
Are you sure we're all thinking of the same god here?
How so?
Heaven forbid someone point out the scientifically accurately obvious, right?
Saying that fetuses are unconscious and yet amoral parasites who have no regard for the "damage" and "insult" they do the woman is a ridiculous statement. Sounds like someone hates the processes of how new mammalian life forms. Maybe they feel the need to apologize to their mother for coming into being? Anyway, it's a "wtf" rant.
Which they didn't do. They just made a bunch of hyperbolic value statements.
I didn't know you had proof fetuses had the ability to make decisions and value judgements, let alone other such things.
Nevermind the fact that I never said that in the first place.
But it is the case that a fetus has no consciousness and that, based on the definition of the word parasite, it is indeed one. It is also an amoral (as in not moral, not immoral) being, as one requires some consciousness to be moral, otherwise there is nothing but instinct to act on, no ability to reason or engage in rational thinking. It is also just a basic fact that the process of human reproduction causes damage to the female body. Birth causes extreme pain and can lead to tearing of flesh, bone cracking, and even death. I really don't think there's any debate on whether those things constitute harm. Unintentional harm, necessary harm, desired harm, and negligible harm are all ideas that we could debate, but that doesn't change that there is harm happening in some way.
Majority of time there is intention of keeping a baby and spontaneous abortion or something as drastic happens and doesn't allow the parents to fulfill their wishes. These babies do get plenty of prayers.I think aborted Fetuses must be great Saints with a very high standing in Heaven. They were slain while completely innocent and sinless. I invoke them for help and write letters and Novenas to them. Anyone else here ever done something like that or am I special
I lost my virginity to a girl who talked to her aborted fetuses and had names for them. I think they are soldiers for Christ!
