Posted on 03/21/2016 3:43:44 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
Was the Flood recorded in Genesis a myth, a good story, local or worldwide?
I took Western Civ at Liberty University, so the bible figured prominently in the course.
The best ideas of Western Civilization flourished because faith and reason were seen to be complimentary to each other.
When faith and reason are either forcefully separated or individually denied, we lose bigtime.
Funny the difference between Catholic postings on FR and Protestant postings.
Catholics post about how wrong the Protestants are and Protestants post about the love of God and the salvation that we find in Jesus.
Is that what it means to be Catholic? To always be aware of how morally and religiously superior you are to everyone else?
No, thanks.
I took an excellent Western Civ course when I was going to college. We didn’t read ANY of those, the Bible included.
Faith picks up where Reason leaves off.
Bet it was posted by a Romish Mary-worshipper.
What was once considered a classic education is now vanishingly rare.
What is offered instead leaves you indebted for decades and basically uneducated; if you ever manage to become truly educated you have to do it yourself. The “university” has abandoned that task.
That’s why I say the best education is four years in the Navy and a set of Harvard Classics.
Or 4 years at Saint Thomas Aquinas, or Gutenberg College would be nice. Then the Navy. :)
Was the Text, Roberts, History of The World?
You can learn a lot about the pagan world prior to Jesus resurrection by looking deeply at the Catholic Religion, because it has incorporated so many of the pagan rites and holidays into that religion. Easter is a prime example, with the Ishtar holiday (Ishtar is Easter) being put into the rituals as a Sunday cewremony to replace what the earliest Christians celebrated on Nisan 14, The Passover, as Jesus established it.
Thanks to Kant and his followers, postmodernism has accepted a mode of thought of disintegration which is anti-truth, anti-conceptual, nihilistic, relativistic, and superficial.
It’s not a silly comment. I’ve been on FR since 2009 and outside of FR I do not know any Catholics.
Evangelism is something you have to do all the time. Constantly. When I go out in public I am the face of Christianity to every non-Christian I meet. Like it or not.
When you folks post on FR most of your audience is either lurkers from DU and the media or it’s mostly Protestants like myself. Either way you are always representing the Roman Catholic Church and with every topic you post on its behalf...as was done here.
Just me, but when I meet people I try to be on my best behavior and I try to get to know them and let them get to know me.
All too often you folks open your dialogue with something to the effect of “You silly stupid Protestants have it all wrong...HARDY-HAR-HAR!! (SNORT!!) (SNEER!!)”
Like I said, I’ve never actually met anyone Catholic in person.
Not so sure I want to based on what I see here.
It seem gaia mother earth worship is where the well studied people at the Vatican have ended up
It IS a silly comment. You said, in a nutshell, “Catholics post anti-Protestant stuff, but Protestants don’t post anti-Catholic stuff,” when there was some anti-Catholic article posted within the last few days. I don’t know what everything else you said does to justify your previous comment as non-silly.
If Catholics would stop trying to pawn their religion off as the only true ‘church’ of Christianity there would be no more to oppose than we’ve done in the past with Mormonism. But the insistence that only in the Catholic Church is there salvation requires Christians to oppose such heresies as are at the heart of catholiciism.
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