Ask a Catholic

[JuliaL]

The trouble is, you think your understanding is complete and infallible while admitting it is not.

After nearly 36 years of Catholicism and nearly a decade of online apologetics, one thing I do know is that I am not infallible.  

Some things can be known with certainty even if they are not fully understood.

My bolding.

At least you know you are infallible in the things about which you are certain, right?
From whence comes the certainty that the God you worship is not a demon?

A demon COULD be deceiving someone...even me. So, knowing how demons operate, what they can and cannot do, and how to stay clear of them becomes a bit more important, doesn't it?

Now, for the baptized Catholic who frequents the sacraments and maintains a state of grace, demons do not have much sway. For the godless, demons have no real reason to bother - that battle is essentially won (unless the person is moved by grace and open to it). So, the battle is over those who are considering faith in God. (Satan also attacks God's strongholds - such as the priesthood - through sins of the flesh (think pedophilia and other carnal temptations here)). God is greater and cannot be defeated...but WE have free will and can choose to act on temptations.

If the God you worship is really demonic, and you have no way to prove the contrary, then the information you've been fed on the intentions and behaviors of demons is not only suspect, it is wrong, crafted to divert you from the true path.  You have a consistent story about grace and damnation, but consistency is not truth.

Knowing no god, I'm not sure how you feel qualified to comment on mine.

Your god and I inhabit the same reality.  The question is whether he fulfills the supernatural specifications you want him to or is simply a set of cultural conventions and agreed upon images created by a society that serve individuals in and the society itself.  In short, your imaginary friend whom you can use to threaten and manipulate others.

The Christian faith is simple enough that even a peasant may understand, believe and be saved.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."  H.L. Mencken
I won't suggest that the peasant is stupid and can't understand what the wise do.  We're back to, "What part of ineffible don't you understand?" The only possible answer is, "All of it."