RE: Ask a Catholic
June 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2015 at 6:42 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 5, 2015 at 6:09 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I know I asked this before, but you seem to have missed it: define truth.
How would you know that a particular set of beliefs is true... or rather, because that makes no sense at all, how would you know that what a particular religion claims is the truth?
By the grace of God.
Make your point, poca. There are lots of posts I need to respond to...
(June 5, 2015 at 6:20 pm)Iroscato Wrote: 2200 years ago or so, the religion of Rome would've been accepted as 'true' by the vast majority of people. Main reason being, it was the dominant power in the world at the time, and could damn well back up those beliefs with a few legions of soldiers to come and smash your windows in and do unspeakable things to your bottom.
Guess what? Despite its immense military power and wealth, Rome fell. As did the religion of the Aztec Empire, as did the religion of Egypt, as did the religion of ancient Greece and so on ad infinitum.
So will the Catholic faith fall, the last remnants of Constantinople, lost to the relentless juggernaut that is time. Inevitably it will be replaced by another form of lunacy, only with a fair fewer people believing in it, if the general decline of religion is to be factored in.
The existence of the graveyard of the gods does not prove that Christianity will one day rest there.
Just because some conceptions of God are fictional, how does that prove that all conceptions of God are fiction?