What It Takes To Be A Saint

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there are no dragons because mah boy slayed them

Not a dragonslayer? Do you see any dragons around?

"There will almost certainly never be dragons" See, that's the problem, it's people like you who are holding back progress

Even if we grant the assertion that dragons once existed, we're going to have to admit that St Donatus (and St George as well) was canonized for killing an endangered animal.

"There are no dragons, there were no dragons, and there will almost certainly never be dragons." That's exactly why that dragon-slaying was so miraculous!

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Saw the title and the thumbnail and thought "oh great, yet another Christopher Hitchens style exposé on the failed policies of a relatively hypocritical idolizer of poverty and suffering" Got to 1:42. Well, alright then.

"Scientology may recruit their celebrities, but Christianity grows its own." - what a nice, quotable sentence (5:45).

I casually end sentences with "This is Rare Earth" now Thanks Evan

At 3:25 there's a slayed dragon! Checkmate atheists

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If you guys are ever in need of a topic for a video, look into the development of Louisiana/New Orleans Voodoo. It's incredibly interesting and obscure -- right up Rare Earth's alley. Even most native New Orleanians aren't familiar with it due to its wildly inaccurate portrayal in early Hollywood movies and successive commercialization. While slaves elsewhere were mostly forced to abandon their traditional beliefs and convert to Christianity, for several reasons, this generally wasn't the case in colonial New Orleans, where the colored population, free and enslaved, outnumbered that of Europeans throughout the heyday of the American slave trade. As such, a lot of the traditional African and Caribbean religious influences survived enslavement, but of course, separated from their homeland, they began to diverge from their roots. Well, long story short, Voodoo practitioners in New Orleans eventually began intentionally adopting bits and pieces of Catholic doctrine and symbology (syncretism). Most commonly, they'd associate a particular Voodoo deity with the identity of a Catholic saint, and they were even known to attend mass. What I think is really fascinating is that the New Orleans archdiocese at the time welcomed this with open arms, and over time, Voodoo began influencing the religious beliefs of European Catholics (and New Orleans culture overall as well)! To this day, there is clear evidence of that happening, like regional superstitions and old wives' tales originating from Voodoo that are still being passed down, even through historically white and Catholic families like my own (unknowingly of course). There are still people who "practice" and believe in Voodoo today in New Orleans, but... frankly, I think it's mostly white New-Age hipsters infatuated with the commercialized, touristy, heavily stylized depiction of Voodoo as mystical, macabre, and "witchcrafty", rather than people with genuine religious convictions. If that doesn't sound like a Rare Earth video, I don't know what would.

St. Donatus wasn't officially canonized, because the first Saint ever to become canonized by the Pope would be St. Ulrich of Augsburg some 600 years later in 993 A.D.

Is it just me or did you up the rate of memery in your narrative?

Every religion that someone holds dear is someone else's myth. Every single one.

Fantastic video brother!!! So glad to have been part of this channel since almost the beginning!!! You are and will do great things

Discovered this channel two days ago and I fell completely in love with it. It is so underrated its almost unbelievable. Keep on with the work guys, this channel is probably one of the best on youtube currently!

The end-credits cards continue to be excellent.

I get chills everytime I see a new upload from RE. Keep making some quality content guys.