(June 26, 2015 at 2:57 pm)Dystopia Wrote:Quote:They don't have to be. By wilfully remaining members of that corrupt outfit and thus continuing to support it they are enablers.Isn't this a fallacy of guilty by association?
No. By throwing money in the collection plate, they are paying for the corrupt organization to continue doing its corrupt things. By publicly identifying themselves as Catholic, they are promoting the Catholic Church.
(June 26, 2015 at 2:57 pm)Dystopia Wrote: what if I don't go to church?
If they stay away, do not donate to the church, and do not identify themselves as Catholic, then it is a bit different. Of course, they cannot be Catholics in good standing that way, as they are supposed to attend mass and etc.
(June 26, 2015 at 2:57 pm)Dystopia Wrote: does that mean that if I'm a marxist I am responsible by Stalin's policies even if I personally disagree with his take on Marxism?
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That isn't the same at all. That is more like condemning all Christians for what Catholics do. And that is not what Minimalist asserted. (Of course, it is right to blame other Christians for what those other Christians do, one of which is promoting the idea that people should believe stupid shit for no good reason, or in other words, be prejudiced about things, though they tend to prefer the word "faith" for this. And that shows dishonesty as well, because they pretend that their prejudice is a virtue when it really is a vice.)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
