But Christian theology is not something that is blindly accepted any more than Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam can be blindly accepted as a “spiritual event.”
As Benedict XVI explained in his famous Regensburg address, Catholicism is braided by both faith and reason. When a parade of prominent Protestant theologians, authors, and preachers head for the exits based on their lifetime research and scholarship, then the center collapses, and Protestantism collapses into the anarchy of the individual. We have seen this Joel Osteen, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Billy Graham, Joseph Smith, Martin Luther, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the list continues.
Opening stanza of William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming,”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
And of course he's talking about faith in your religion and flawed human reasoning...I appreciate the honesty of Benny...He was honest enough not to throw the words of God, the Bible, into the mix...
When a parade of prominent Protestant theologians, authors, and preachers head for the exits based on their lifetime research and scholarship,
So imagine that...Those Catholics who developed enough gumption to do some research (in the bible, history of the early church fathers) found that your/their religion didn't line of with history nor the word of God and they started Protesting...
then the center collapses, and Protestantism collapses into the anarchy of the individual.
Hardly...Protestantism didn't collapse...Protestantism resulted in the greatest Reformation the world has seen, bringing the truth of God and his scriptures to the worldwide masses...Billions of them...
We have seen this Joel Osteen, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Billy Graham, Joseph Smith, Martin Luther, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the list continues.
There's not a Catholic pope, ever, worthy enough to clean the dog crap off Billy Graham's shoes that he might have stepped in...And don't claim the apostle Peter...He was never a pope...He was never a bishop...