A British-born Italian teenager who dedicated his short life to spreading the faith online and helping the poor will be beatified by the Catholic Church Saturday.
That leaves him just one miracle away from becoming the world's first millennial saint.
Internet and computer-mad youngster Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 aged 15, was placed on the path to sainthood after the Vatican ruled he had miraculously saved another boy's life.
The Vatican claims he interceded from heaven in 2013 to cure a Brazilian boy suffering from a rare pancreatic disease.
The Whole Roman Catholic Church is a weird cult if you ask me.
I mean, does any of this make sense or hold up to rational scrutiny?
Somewhat related, Trump referred to the drugs he took as miraculous in a religious sense. But why would God unleash such a nasty virus in the first place. Or have Trump become infected? And if the US is one of the hardest hit places, isn't that an indictment by God? Etc.
All of this religious speculation about an unknown and likely non-existent God, coupled with a notion that there is some sort of life after death, topped by a supposed ability to intercede from the pre-supposed heaven to help a living person. That's multiple layers of wildly unrealistic and unproven speculation, otherwise known as nonsense. I talk about Christian mythology, as these weird and absurd beliefs will disappear and be replaced in time, just as they replaced earlier pagan beliefs. Fortunately the trend among educated folks is to dispense with religion and its primitive belief matrices altogether.