Saint Christopher: the Christian Atlas >After Christopher

Because protestantism is trash, my dude.

>>2552275
I would think it is because faith was stronger for them. We often think of it as an after thought, and it is not taken to seriously.
I always hoped that Christians would take it more seriously because it IS a serious subject. I would think if one was to become a Christian they would do so by making serious changes in their lives that are meaningful and powerful. In my anecdotal experience they don't, it is treated as no more than a label so they can virtue signal.
If I were to join a church it would be a life changing event that would change a lot in my life currently.
t agnostic

(((Luther, Calvin))) and (((secular humanism)))

>>2552275
Christians are just slaves for the jew. It's a foul pacifistic neutered religion.

>>2552573
the Christian religion is always opposed to Judaism while pagans sold other pagans to Jews on a regular basis before Christianity came along

>>2552573
You idiot fool. Like the other anon said, pagan Varangians and Rus were selling blonde Slavic women as sex slaves to the Jewish empire of Khazaria (which in their turn would sell them to Muslims and everyone else) before they converted to Christianity. After they converted they not only stopped selling whites as slaves, they leveled the khazarian empire to the ground. Learn some history before spouting nonsense.

>>2552275
Anymore stories like this ? It reminds me greek mythology

>>2552975
There was a bishop in Italy in the fourth century who had a church built in honor of a martyr.
There was one problem though, the vista from the church wasn't quite good as a building obstructed the view. He asked those people to remove their house and go away, but they refuted. Fortunately for the bishop, the martyr came back to life and burned down that building.

People back then unironically took this shit seriously.

>>2553017
*refused

>>2552975
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/legendary-sword-stone-san-galgano-002968

The Legendary Sword in the Stone of San Galgano is very interesting. Here is a good summery.

>>2553017
>>2553033
Thanks

>>2552975
Saint cecilia

>>2553068
If you read myracles reported back in the late roman empire you get the impression that people lived in a high fantasy world.
Dragons (a farting dragon in one occasion), saints paralyzing groups of unbelievers, the magic staff of a bishop stopping blight in a field, literally D&D tier stuff.

>>2553095
In fact it's quite amazing how they went from stuff like that to "a guy who was taking medicine for a tumor suddenly got better".

>>2553095
>literally D&D tier stuff.
You realize that D&D and the fantasy genre is an imitation of these types of things, right? These types of things aren't imitations of the fantasy genre. You'd be more accurate to say that D&D is late Roman Empire tier stuff.

>>2553112
Yeah, sure, what I'm trying to say is that if you talk to a contemporary christian philosopher he's going to give you a worldview where there's basically a supreme being or being itself, quite detached from the world aside from a few historical events, miracles are rare, sparse and ambiguous.
Then you read up what people actually believed back then and you basically get ROLL A 20 FOR RAIN DUDE. And not only this shit was reportedly common, people actually converted due to it! Well, that and heavy punishment for practicing paganism, but still...

>>2553017
Lol. Based.

>>2553133
You're right. Modern mainstream Christianity is very much caught up in deism and humanism which has been prevalent in the West for so long. This is only natural. Traditional Catholics and Orthodox still believe in the miracles as do other sects of more traditional Christians. T

>>2553177
But even traditional catholics admit only a few peculiar miracles, there's nothing even remotely close to the kind of miracles that were apparently widespread several centuries ago. Nobody actually believes people are raised from the dead nowadays. Nobody even reports such things. But saints apparently were doing that quite often back then.
It looks like quite a coincidental downgrading of supernatural events.

>>2553177
Alright so you believe a martyr came back from the dead to burn down the house of an innocent family because it was obstructing the view from the church? Sounds demonic to me.

>>2553193
>But even traditional catholics admit only a few peculiar miracles
idk where you get this information from. Even modern Catholics do still believe in miracles that the church declared were true. You have modern miracles as well. Look at Fatima or Akita. look at all of statues of the Virgin Mary crying. Catholics still believe them.

>>2553196
>innocent
>obstructing the view from the church

pick one buddy

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>>2552573
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>>2554051
>this "blue pill" obsession
Embarrassing desu
Literally /pol/ tier delusion

>>2552975
There's a French-Canadian song with a similar story to St. Christopher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnB0_2PJWRY


A farmer sees an orphan child by himself travelling on the road, so he invites him into his house for dinner and a warm place to stay. The child accepts and at the man's table says that God will bless him. The man that night says to his children that he will adopt the child to replace his own son François, but in the morning when they go to the bed there is a note saying "Thank you, your friend Jesus"

>>2553218
Maybe I didn't express myself well enough, I was referring to similar events in the contemporary world.
Miracles of that sort don't seem to happen anymore. Miracles that reportedly happen are, far tamer than that, much more ambiguous and so on.