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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Anyone known what document miracles this guy did? Last I knew it was a req.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (47 children)

The kid spread religion online. God killed him for it. Pope makes him a saint. God facepalms and says "How many more kids do I have to kill to show you that you should stop wasting time in church and just be a good person".

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

so basically the kid was Lorgar? Hopefully a blonde haired kid didn't show up and burn the Lorgar kids home town.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

if a bishop watched me code I could be the first programmer saint. There are times only god knows how my software works. Or not, in case cursing disqualifies candidates.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TempleOS guy would be so angry

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

If you pray to him and miracles happen, we can have Saint Terry the Terrible

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My code comes from the bad place

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Candidates for sainthood require two distinct miracles attributed to them: Acutis was first beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy with a pancreatic defect was cured, following his mother's prayers to Acutis to help her son. The second miracle involves the reported healing of a Costa Rican girl who suffered a serious head injury after falling off her bike in Florence: her mother prayed for the girl's recovery at Acutis' tomb in Assisi, and her daughter made a full recovery.

Quite, uh, remarkable "miracles".

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

I feel like maybe Acurtis 360 no scoped that girl off the bike, then came back in as a healer and brought her back to full health.

...kind of cheating.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

According to Carlin's theory, 4 prayers to Joe Pesci (PBUH) should suffice for sainthood.

Joe Pesci: patron saint of smashing things with a baseball bat.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wait isn't it the mom who should be a saint then?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, basically, the logic is that since he allegedly healed her, that he is apparently alive in heaven and no longer in purgatory. Thus becoming a saint as his salvation has been "proven"

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew religion was a joke. Anyone who still refuses to admit it is a total moron

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Except there are still 1.4 BILLION catholics in the world, and that's just catholicism.

We may not like it, we may not get anything from it, but we should very much be concerned with what happens in the world of organized religion and what it's representing because 3/4 of the world still believe in some kind of religion.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 week ago

Seems like rich territory for jokes about saint Luigi

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about the dead guy. Is this deserved recognition or a shameless attention grab by a no longer relevant institution?

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