I like it when all the things I don't like neatly combine themselves into one thing.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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It's a miracle!
I sped read over it. My condolences to his family. Did the 15 year old do something cringe worthy of note? Seems like the pope is just being kind to what is no doubt a grieving family.
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Am I supposed to dislike him?
I don’t hate him. He was well liked by his community. I hate the church for elevating him to sainthood because of desperate poor people attributing miracles to his lifeless body while the vatican sits on billions of dollars.
No not at all, he seems like he was a nice guy and my condolences to the family. The title is just me trying to describe what I view as funny about getting a modern saint. It is the church side I dislike, but the kid seemed like he was better than Ill ever be
He'd be a 33 year old tech bro who advocates for eugenics or something today if he didn't die in 2006.
At least he died too early to get into Bitcoin or effective altruism. He was probably just a history nerd who was good at WordPress.
Ok wait edit I actually real his wiki page and his tomb is expeptionally weird and creepy.
Now I know who to pray to when I'm debugging legacy code.
You can also pray to the patron saint of computer, the internet, computer programmers and computer users: St. Isidore of Seville who died in 636
https://uscatholic.org/articles/201310/how-many-saints-are-there/
Revisions to the canonization process in 1983 ensured we will see more saints in the future. John Paul II eliminated the office of Promoter of the Faith, or, as it’s more commonly known, the Devil’s Advocate, a canon lawyer tasked with arguing against a person’s possible canonization. Consequently, John Paul II canonized more saints than the popes from the previous 500 years combined.
The boomers turned sainthood into a participation trophy lmao.
Acutis was about to release Vatican v3.0 to rectify the wokeness of Vatican 2 until they assassinated him
Youre telling me its that easy to do a miracle? Mama, I pray to lenin to make me hungry so i can eat #blessed
You gotta be sick first.
Personally I'm a bigger fan of the second miracle
Meanwhile there are probably south american priests who got tortured to death by operation condor who the church still wont acknowledge
But I guess why would Francis acknowledge these guys when he was probably sending lists of names to the Argentine Junta
I don’t think they’ve acknowledged any of them
The miracle attributed to his intercession occurred in 2022 when a Costa Rican woman named Valeria had fallen off her bike and suffered a brain haemorrhage with doctors giving her a low chance of survival. Valeria's mother, Lilliana, prayed for the intercession of Acutis and visited his tomb. The same day, Valeria began to breathe independently again and was able to walk the next day with all evidence of the haemorrhage having disappeared.
I like how you can be the most devout, knowledgable, humble, religious Christian, and you can still be gunned down on the streets by a drunk guy and die an excruciating 15 hour death, while some random blind kid in a remote village will receive a miraculous recovery
The first gamer saint! 
In all honest, it's interesting to see a Millenial saint. And it's nice that the kid doesn't have any more pancreatic problems and the woman healed from her accident. I recently went to a Catholic place and there was some stuff talking about Acutis there, and besides it there were books about Marx, Hegels and Louis Althusser, mostly religious stuff translated, for some reason.
Cool! And yeah that is nice
I don't know if he's actually a techbro, but he's definitely going to be the saint of techbros
The timeline of his death is insane. He goes to a doctor for a sore throat one day and 10 days later he’s braindead from lukemia.
If anything the rapid death of 15 year old child from a random medical illness should shake your faith in god not strengthen it
god is a transactional entity that i reward with my belief based on my immediate experience of life
"Today, prognoses have drastically improved; 10-year survival rates are estimated to be approximately 80-90% according to one study.[7][6][8]"
maybe but with 10 days between symptoms showing up and death doctors will need to be pretty on the ball and not send people home with cough drops. Not much margin for error there.
I remember being a kid in Catholic school and learning about how saints have to have 3 miracles attributed to them to be canonized. At that age I was like okay I can buy this guy Jesus was doing miracles 2000 years ago but theres no way saints are doing all these miracles constantly in the modern day that's just silly
I also feel like that's such a silly requirement. Why three? "Alright, we all agree that God almighty intervened in our earthly affairs on your behalf, but if you wanna be remembered you better get him to do it twice more. We wanna be sure it wasn't a fluke when god helped you."
It's either that or
"Yeah we all get a miracle every now and again, don't freak out about it. I remember when I had my first, back in '68 I think, wild times. Oh wait you've had three? Why didn't you say so, right this way Mr. Saint"
Three is a powerful magical number.
Prime numbers are basically divine.
2 is also a prime number 🤓
But you are right, that is a good explanation. Still funny we need more than one
My favorite is when Mary supposedly appeared to some kids and told them three secrets, then instructed them to reveal two of them. The Vatican then forced one of the girls to reveal the third secret after she refused to, saying Mary said it wasn’t ready.
Very serious institution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Secrets_of_F%C3%A1tima
lol the header on his info panel says Blessed. Can we get one for communists that says Comrade?
Blessed, venerable, in his lane
is that Ben Wyatt?