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Canon. 752 While the assent of faith is not required , a religious submission of intellect and will is to be given to any doctrine which either the Supreme Pontiff or the College of Bishops, exercising their authentic magisterium, declare upon a matter of faith or morals, even though they do not intend to proclaim that doctrine by definitive act . Christ faithful are therefore to ensure that they avoid whatever does not accord with that doctrine.

This was already posted once on this thread. This place is full of ex-catholics who either left on their own or were ungraciously required to leave the church because they used their skulls for something more than nodding to Rome and thought for themselves. Feigned incredulity from an Agnostic doesn't change that.

Ecclesiastes 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2 All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.

It stands for itself - an evil to all men, both righteous and evil alike that they have to physically die and cannot partake in anything that goes on here any longer.

Havoc writes:

This was already posted once on this thread. This place is full of ex-catholics who either left on their own or were ungraciously required to leave the church because they used their skulls for something more than nodding to Rome and thought for themselves. Feigned incredulity from an Agnostic doesn't change that.

This is, unfortunately, an abusive argumentum ad hominem comment by Havoc. Instead of arguing the points, he critcizes individuals. It's unfortunate, and indeed, we should refrain from this all around.