(November 21, 2016 at 2:01 am)theologian Wrote: Religious answers would be truly unconvincing without philosophical backbone.
Not good enough. Philosophy is useless if you can't demonstrate the actual entity, here in the real world.
Quote:So, it is a big mistake to know God directly from the Bible without the aid of the Catholic Church.
Are you implying that the Jewish people, who were the authors of the foundational books of your religion, need to talk to Pope Frankie to see if they got it right? Heeheeheeheehee!
The only "aid" I want from the RCC, by the way, is about $15 million USD in weregild for the damages they inflicted on My ancestral homestead in Norway a thousand years ago. Prime real estate in Oslo ain't cheap, y'know. Failing that, I would like to live long enough to see that bloated and evil cult collapse into itself like a black hole on steroids.