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To: sirchtruth
Look, I'm not bashing Catholismm here,

Sure.

I'm trying to grasp why Catholics look at scripture the way they do (with all this extraneous focus) and why they have this need to have others tell them what to think of scripture.

We simply don't believe one needs to wipe the slate clean with the birth of each new believer. We are allowed, nay, commanded, to share our understanding and wisdom.

Every time a scientist wishes to solve a problem, he does not begin with counting theory and then evolve arithmetic from the concept of numbers. He then doesn't go on to discover anew Calculus and Trigonometry and the other higher branches of knowledge.

Instead, he takes what has been discovered by those before him and works upon that foundation. Einstein called it "standing on the shoulders of giants."

I am unsure why anyone would want to reject summarily the thoughts and insights of the multiple generations of believers who came before us. I guess it's the difference between believing literally millions of minds over millennia can come to know what is true versus the hubris of believing one is sufficient in oneself to determine what is true.

SD

15 posted on 01/16/2006 8:47:55 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
I am unsure why anyone would want to reject summarily the thoughts and insights of the multiple generations of believers who came before us.

Even when they parade as virtues of light, but go against the precepts of scripture?

55 posted on 01/17/2006 3:48:40 AM PST by sirchtruth (Words Mean Things...)
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