I feel sorry for my fellow Christians in the Protestant camp. Part of their Reformation was to quit asking the saints to intercede for them. Luther himself revered the Blessed Virgin but was very strict about going straight to Jesus when he prayed. But Jesus was perfect so it's hard for me to relate to him. And God is way too big a concept for me to approach him beyond saying the Our Father . The saints to me are approachable. Many of them screwed up badly before they got it right. Look at Saint Paul. He was having Christians killed, but he repented and spread the good word. There are over 10,000 saints venerated in the Catholic Church. No one knows the actual number. The official canonization process didn't begin till 993 A.D. People like Peter and Paul were grandfathered in. The good people of the Old Testament, all the way from Adam up to Malachi are considered saints. We call them patriarchs, matriarchs and prophets rather than saints. A priest told ...
Hmmmmm, sounds like the rough draft outline for "Yurasskick Park:" The Palmville Zone Palmville Whitetailosaurus THE RAVEN Part 2 Volume 1 Issue 12 (1995) An Excerpt: "Rain dripped from the wide brim of his camouflaged hat as he stood at the edge of the clearing. The tall straight trunks of the popple island, chalky-white on one side, wet-green on the other swayed and creaked against a cold northwest wind. The man looked to the west against the high treetops and studied their silhouettes for any discernible shape of anything that moved as big as the darkening sky itself; anything that was bigger than life, larger than thought possible, imaginable or acceptable by the limits of human thought or knowledge." His interests were complex but worth the 2000 mile trip to check this modern day monster out. The idea of a DNA-generated dinosaur-sized creature was not beyond his imagination, especially after seeing the movie tha...