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The Holy Undead, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Afterlife and the Dead Returning to Life

In the version of the story, we get faithful christians who worship the christian god even after death. They are decaying bodies and skeletons going about their business. The catholic teaching at the time emphasized the inertness of the dead body until the general resurrection at the same of christ. So this is clearly in contradiction with that. And yet, this is also something oe talked about in the previous episode. There appears to have been a pretty wide a, a tolerance for various beliefs about the undead,. Even if they weren't strictly in line with catholic teaching.

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