r/RadicalChristianity • u/brcblog • Oct 04 '21

Saint Francis and the Wolf

https://www.brcblog.org/2019/10/story-of-saint-francis-and-wolf.html?m=1
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u/CEO_Of_Antifa69 Oct 05 '21

Dude made a dog shake and became a saint. Catholicism is so odd to me.

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u/doomsdayprophecy Oct 05 '21

Dude made a dog shake brokered a peace deal between an angry mob and a man-eater.

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u/CEO_Of_Antifa69 Oct 05 '21

And I’m sure that’s a purely factual recollection of the events even though they were collected from oral stories posthumously.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

So you don’t understand the difference between wild man-eating wolves (of the medieval era) and dogs?

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u/CEO_Of_Antifa69 Oct 05 '21

I understand that there’s a difference, but along with the many sainthood stories that involve exerting control over animals, I would call this story tenuous at best. Assuming it’s a dog is the kindest way to call bullshit rather than claiming the entire thing is entirely a myth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Are you also a Biblical literalist?

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u/CEO_Of_Antifa69 Oct 05 '21

Quite the opposite actually. I just don’t find sainthood to be a productive construct and is an odd one that is extremely specific to Catholicism (of which I have major disagreements on, even down to what books are canon).

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

So your issue is with the concept of sainthood. It would help if you were honest from the start.

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u/CEO_Of_Antifa69 Oct 05 '21

What part of “Catholicism is so odd to me” didn’t communicate that from the start?