(June 21, 2015 at 12:35 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: But what if what we think is that the Church holds the answers? And that the Catechism can do a better job of putting it into words than we can? I'd also like to point out that there have been times here where I've said something about what the Church teaches and have been told by another member that I am wrong about what the Church teaches. So I went ahead and linked to the catechism in order to prove that what I just said really is in line with Church teaching.
I am sorry you feel as though we have done a poor job of sharing our thoughts and beliefs. I'll own it and say that indeed I do have a hard time putting things into words a lot of times.
You guys seem to not grasp the difference between these two ideas.
This is okay:
C_L: "I believe x and y and z because this, that, and the other thing."
Atheist: "Well that's wrong, the church teaches b and c and d."
C_L: "Nuh uh. See this portion of the catechism:
Catechism Wrote:Snippet of the catechism or other document that supports your original point.http://www.linktocatechismpage.com"
This isn't:
"This is what I believe:
Catechism Wrote:ten pages of Catechism."
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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