Is the veneration of saints a form of polytheism?

No.

Yes. Catholics worshipping a canon of saints instead of God is polytheism.

>>2644973
Veneration means honouring. It doesn't mean worship.

>>2644979
The Bible mentions nothing about canonizing saints or veneration. It does say to worship God directly.

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>>2644979

Seeing how the saints were often introduced explicitly to replace the worship of pagan gods, yes. Of course it is.

Christianity synchronises elements of dualism and polytheism, because Indo-Europeans found the nation of an omnipresent unitary God too alien to adopt as is.

>>2644964
In catholicism yes because everything about catholicism is basically pagan. In real Christianity no, because 'saint' is just another term for a believer in Christ, and veneration of saints -- the brothers of the Church -- is a veneration of Christ.

ITT: Salty Protestshits

>>2644964
Yes and it's obvious

>>2644990
The Bible also tells how Paul was told to build a church, I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't have had that happen if he thought it could be so fundamentally corrupted