# Catholics - a question on candles and saints

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-a-question-on-candles-and-saints/653683>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-a-question-on-candles-and-saints/653683 "2013-03-22T21:34:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-a-question-on-candles-and-saints/653683/41 "2013-04-02T11:34:00Z")

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So, then, your whole point of posting in a thread about a particular practice and belief was to make wholesale mockery of religion in general?

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-a-question-on-candles-and-saints/653683/42 "2013-04-02T13:37:05Z")

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[moderating]  
The original question has been answered and the thread has devolved into debate. Rather than move the thread to GD, I’m just closing it. Feel free to open a new one in Great Debates if you wish to continue in the direction it’s going.  
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