I've often been criticized by catholics as being polytheistic, as I believe that God the father and Jesus Christ are seperate beings, but then earlier this morning, while I was taking a dump, I began thinking...
Is not the veneration of saints just a clever way to disguise polytheism? The idea that you would pray to a dead, semi-divine person for guidance and assistance in a particular area feels to me like praying to a different god for the same reason.
Isn't this basically how Hindus practice their faith? They believe there is one creator being (brahman) and a vast panoplie of gods underneath him/her. How is that any different than one creator being (god/jesus/spirit) and a vast panoplie of saints beneath him? Isn't the only difference there the fact that hinduism has had much more time to develop a larger garden of semi-divine beings?
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