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From: speter@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Peter Osgood)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Worship of corpses by Christians
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 10:25:34 EDT
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Let us get one thing very straight, we Catholics worship one
person and one person *only*, God.

We pray to Mary and the Saints to intervene for our causes.

It is true that those who went before us buried Popes, especially,
in the Vatican, St. Peter's, and other places.  HOWEVER, by and
large, the practice of worshipping these "corpses" is long since
past, it is history.

Finally, this practice is/was not limited to us, in fact, in
Damascus in the the central Mosque, which I visited, there is
a crypt where the head of John the Baptist is purported to rest.
This, surprise surprise all you crusaders, is the second holiest
place in Islam and John the Baptist one of their holiest people.
They, Moslems, still go to that crypt to worship.  This is the
only case of "corpse worship" that I have *ever* witnessed.

				---peter osgood--