RE: British Non-Catholic Historian on Historical Longevity of the Roman Catholic Church.
July 12, 2023 at 8:01 am
Macaulay lauds the staying power of the Church as an institution. Ok, I agree that it's an enviable record, but so what? Claiming that it survived because of divine origin smacks of the incredulity fallacy. I have a more prosaic explanation:
Suppose I come to you and say, 'Nothing you ever, ever, EVER do is permanently wrong. No matter how vile, how heinous, how stomach-churningly repugnant your behaviour, I'm going to arrange things so that you can live in a beautiful place where you'll never grow old, never get sick, never have any worries of any sort. All you have to do in return is make a sincere 'sorry about that' every so often and tell all of your friends about my offer and what a great guy I am.'
It's hard to imagine a better line of hucksterism than that.
And, for the record, Jesus didn't invent Christianity. That was Paul.
Boru
Suppose I come to you and say, 'Nothing you ever, ever, EVER do is permanently wrong. No matter how vile, how heinous, how stomach-churningly repugnant your behaviour, I'm going to arrange things so that you can live in a beautiful place where you'll never grow old, never get sick, never have any worries of any sort. All you have to do in return is make a sincere 'sorry about that' every so often and tell all of your friends about my offer and what a great guy I am.'
It's hard to imagine a better line of hucksterism than that.
And, for the record, Jesus didn't invent Christianity. That was Paul.
Boru
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