Ask a Catholic

[nihilistcat]

Pick your favorite argument against Catholicism...just one...and give me your question.

My favorite argument against Catholicism is the same argument against religion in general ... it's based on bullshit. 

1) first we believed that the universe and man was created in seven days, then came biology, physics, geology, etc., and now most religions call that story figurative.

2) most mainstream archaeologists have concluded that the Exodus narrative never happened, which suggests that Moses never actually existed (this is a development that most churches have not yet been willing to concede, nonetheless, when you look at the evidence, it's very decisive). 

3) Paul claimed 500 witnesses, the context of the sermon on the mounts implies there were perhaps thousands in attendance, yet not a single corroborating report or artifact in history. 

4) we now know the gospels were written by well educated, native Greek speakers, not Aramaic speaking barely literate fishermen from Galilee. The churches response to this, to the extent they're willing to admit the inherent problems in their ancient manuscripts, it doesn't matter because all those authors were inspired by god, and how do they know, because they say so (and since they claim to be the official representatives of god on earth, the normal skepticism with which we treat circular reasoning shouldn't apply e.g. they get a special pleading, why, cause they say so, never mind that you could support any claim, even the most absurd, with this flawed reasoning).

5) Islam is a religion with over a billion followers, based on a story about one guy who entered a cave, alone I might add, and emerged from his cave with a nice bedtime story about his encounter with an angel (and of course he emerged fully equipped with a new buy-bull). 

It's just one big long DUH!

I'm reminded of the story of the prehistoric tribe who would pray to the rain god to avoid drought, floods, famine, etc. Then they realized that rain would occur when clouds formed in their proximity, so they changed the story, and started praying to the cloud god. They then realized that the direction of the wind influenced the direction of movement of clouds, so they changed the story again, and started praying to the wind god. In fact, with each new bit of knowledge they acquired, they had to change the story. Eventually, a few of the smarter members of the tribe recognized the trend .... and became atheists.

If this were differential calculus, we would say the limit is approaching bullshit