RE: LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!
July 18, 2015 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 11:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I knew that I might -eventually- find something I could agree with you on. If I just waited long enough.
Quote:My response is this: Yeah, if you actually sat down and read the Catechism cover to cover, I don't think you could help coming away from it being impressed. It's been underdevelopment for 2,000 years, and its been finely tuned by some of the most brilliant minds that ever walked the planet.The catholic apparatus -is- impressive. It's on a short list of the most impressive institutions ever seen. However, that doesn't -actually- have much to do with the solidity of the statements in the catechism, and it certainly had nothing to do with any god. I think that we can both appreciate the church for what it is and has been....without any need for solidity in the catechism, or the truth of their articles of faith.
Catholicism is not some little 30-member store-front church, Esq. For all its weaknesses splashed across the front pages of the daily newspapers, its answers to the questions men ask - about life, death, ourselves and God - are pretty solid.
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