music earworm, Catholic saints 

I'm finally having some success dealing with the "Saint Elmo's Fire" earworm by making the lyrics about "Saint Vitus Dance" instead, which prompted me to go down the Wikipedia research hole about "Where Do Catholic Saints Come From," and yeeesh, humans are seriously fucked up. o______o

music earworm, Catholic saints 

@green what were your findings?

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music earworm, Catholic saints 

@bleak basically that the things people have done to each other over stuff like religion could be--imaginatively horrible. I also learned about a religion called "Manichaeism," which Wikipedia says "at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world" and which I had never heard of before.

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