I’m not very religious, but whenever I travel to European countries there’s always a local “Patron Saint” that the locals admonish or pray to (like Saint Sebastien – Patron Saint of Mallorca, or Saint Lucy in Venice being the Patron Saint of the blind). My question is, how is this not technically polytheistic? I thought you were only supposed to pray to God? Thanks!
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A religion makes its own internal rules that do not need to conform to any outside logic. So if mainstream Christianity says that saints are not gods, they are not gods, regardless if from the outside they might conform to a different definition or not. Religions do not have to make any sense to anyone but their believers – why is it harder to believe that praying to saints is not polytheistic that that praying to a magical tripartite “being” is real?
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