Second #blog post. I wrote about #IU and saints and why I think she is one.
https://dogfox.codeberg.page/posts/IU/
Titles on the feed pages are still a little screwed up, but...
Second #blog post. I wrote about #IU and saints and why I think she is one.
https://dogfox.codeberg.page/posts/IU/
Titles on the feed pages are still a little screwed up, but...
It Is Time To Canonize A New Baseball Saint
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/it-is-time-to-canonize-a-new-baseball-saint
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Decency #Indecency #Sainthood
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
Did you know that a "Devil’s advocate" used to be a real job?
When deciding who should be canonised, the Roman #Catholic #Church used to require someone to argue against a candidate.
The Devil’s advocate would point out any flaws, past and present, which would keep a person from qualifying as saintly.
Today, this position of negativity has been abolished. Now the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, a kind of court, instead assesses the arguments *for* #sainthood.
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SAINT, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
"Saint," The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
More info about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/21902…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #canonization #mythmaking #revisionism #saint #sainthood #sinner
SAINT, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited. Originally published in The Devil's Dictionary [A-Z] as Vol. 7 of his Collected Works. This seems to have been a revision of: CANONIZE, v.t.. To make a saint out of a dead sinner. That entry first appeared in the "Devil's Dictionary" column…