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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
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Subject: Re: Worship of corpses by Christians
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 21:09:49 EDT
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speter@athena.mit.edu (Peter Osgood) writes:
>
>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.
>

What is the justification for stopping the worship of these "corpses"?
The people who did so were closer in time to the founding of the
Church, so it seems that they would be more likely to know how people
were intended to worship.
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