My understanding of Catholicism is that if you name your kid Saint [Something] they grow up to be pretty awesome. But then there's the, you know, martyrdom.
Its always pertinent to remember that the "Dragon" that St George slays in the story they tell about him is supposed to be an allegory for paganism. And that story ignores the actual events in St George's life and rips off the pagan/Norse myth of Siegfried and Brunhilde (I am using the Western European names because the Northern European names and spellings completely escape me).
Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations for that book are still vivid images in my brain and I haven't seen that book in likely 25 years. Really wild how some images just capture us when we forget so many other things from those years.
I might be sleep deprived and i don't follow the conversation but wasn't Satan depicted as a dragon few times? Slaying dragons should be one of more christian things to do.
I was debating whether to put the /s too. I really was. Fool that I am.
But also, if you talk to a lot of evangelical Christians, which seems to be the prevailing sect of Christianity, at least in America right now, they disavow the shit out of Catholicism
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u/miniatureconlangs 7h ago
And the Christians have, sadly, decided that killing dragons no longer is the Christian way. Saint George shakes his head.