RE: Professor's Proposition: Only Two Logical Choices
September 25, 2012 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 9:20 pm by Blackrook.)
(September 25, 2012 at 9:05 pm)System of Solace Wrote: And exactly why does he believe Roman Catholicism is the one true faith?I would need to ask him, and I will and get back to you.
I can tell you my reason.
I have investigated the many thousands of miracles documented by the Catholic Church in its 2000 year history. Many of them can't be proven because they are too long ago, but some of them are more recent in time and very hard to ignore.
For example, Joan of Arc revealed something she knew to the Dauphin of France that convinced him to give her control of the armies of France. Also, she identified him even though another man pretended to be the Dauphin while he hid among the courtiers. And she predicted the result of a battle that was hundreds of miles away. I could go in more detail but I don't need to. The biography of Joan is very well known and you can read about it on Wikipedia.
In more recent times, Padre Pio performed many miracles, including his stigmata, and he predicted that a certain Polish priest would one day be Pope, and it happened many years later.
But the big clincher for me is the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. I looked into that and there is no way to explain how 70,000 people could be affected by a "mass hypnosis" which is the usual atheist explanation for this even.
But my Dad has other reasons, I think, that have nothing to do with modern miracles. I will call him and find out what they are and get back to you.
(September 25, 2012 at 9:07 pm)Cinjin Wrote:How old are you? You act like you're 12. Maybe you should sit this one out, because I meant this thread to be for grown-ups to know how to behave in grown-up conversations.(September 25, 2012 at 9:05 pm)System of Solace Wrote: And exactly why does he believe Roman Catholicism is the one true faith?
because like his son, he's an idiot.
The reason atheism is not a logical choice is because it cannot be upheld with any manner of proof.
Faced with an absence of evidence of God, assuming one rejects all the evidence of miracles which I have described, it is not rational to say that there MUST be no God simply because there is no evidence that there is.
It seems to me that many atheists are willing to believe in plenty of other things without any proof, like the existence of intelligent life around other planets.
An agnostic knows there is no evidence either way, so he logically chooses to say there is no way to know and takes that position.
An atheist is taking a position of faith, believing in an unprovable doctrine.
