RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 2, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2016 at 12:08 pm by Tonus.)
(December 2, 2016 at 10:19 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(December 2, 2016 at 9:01 am)Ignorant Wrote: What do you think about Catholics holding that Mary, a woman, is the closest creature to God?Yes, Mary. The ultimate rape victim.
You could say that she consented, in which case it's only fornication (or adultery, if the locals felt that she already belonged to Joseph). Suddenly the story in John 8 --where Jesus forgives an adulteress and spares her from the death penalty-- makes a strange kind of sense...
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
