40K does loves to grab imagery from old christian imagery for the Imperium.
Or Dune. Or Morecock. Or basically anything.
Sure it is. Let’s just pretend there is no monetary incentive for a region to have a holy relic which brings them a bunch of tourism. Ain’t nothing holy under capitalism.
Every single consecrated Catholic altar contains a relic of a saint. Usually they’re pretty small, maybe a piece of a fingerbone or something. You’re right that a good one like this would bring in lots of pilgrims (tourist dollars,) but it’s a tradition that way predates capitalism.
I’m not in the business of defending the Catholic Church or capitalism, just wanted to clarify.
Socialists don’t see a fundamental difference between a king or church owning the means of production and a merchant/capitalist/whatever owning it, because there isn’t a significant difference. Adam Smith was observing truths on the nature of property ownership and how to increase the gains from such, not describing the idea of rich and powerful people owning property that would make them money by exploiting the value of labor. That idea is as old as agriculture.
Where it might get tricky is if the gains from owning the “relic” were funding welfare programs/charity more than they were funding the excessive lifestyle of the clergy, but that’s not something Catholics are particularly known for living up to, responsible usage of tithes and actually following the precepts of ascetism in the clergy.
The alleged skull of Mary Magdalene.
I like Martin Luther’s polemic about relics: “How many pieces of the true cross are there in the world? How many thorns from Christ’s crown of thorns? How many nails from the crucifixion? There are enough nails to shoe all the horses in Saxony. And if all the relics of the saints were gathered together, there would be enough bones to build a ship and enough wood to boil all the water in the sea.”
In that sense it’s one of Mary Magdalene’s many heads.
That’s a really good quote.
Martin Luther had an extremely finite of fucks to give. Despite not sharing his beliefs, I respect the man for upturning 1500yr of status quo.
If you sewed together all the fragments of Jesus’s foreskin, you could go skydiving with it.
“Of the 12 apostles, 18 of them are buried in Spain.”
Where do you think 40k got it
It’s like they haven’t studied history or read any 40K.
Wait Catholics; nevermind. They didn’t read the room with Luther, and he was friendly.
Luther was not friendly
At first he was a reformer, he didnt initially intend to create another schism but well the powder was already there and he lit it.
he was a reformer, but he was an angry, shitposting bastard about it.
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/talking-tough-martin-luthers-potty-mouth/
I bet it isn’t really Magdalene.
Chances are, it isn’t. The early Catholic Church did a lot of this kind of thing, where they would claim to have a piece of the cross, or a bone of St Peter in a church. It was just to drive tourism into their churches. If you took all the claimed pieces of the cross and assembled them, it would make far more than one cross.
I never realized she was an astronaut. They don’t teach you that in Sunday school.
The Moment i realised the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
I went to the capuchin crypt in Italy.
Spoiler; had nothing to do with monkeys
I went to a crypt in Britain as a kid, can’t remember where tf it was, but I still remember it because it was super interesting.
It’s where I learned about Trepanning and how they did it back in olden times to “let the bad spirits out” and it actually worked because it reduced swelling around the brain by giving the blood a way out.
