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...
You’re an Ian Paisley type bigot pure and simple.
Don’t take my word for its- the collapse of Protestantism is all around you. It lacks solid theological and intellectual foundation. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry and their grandmother have their own conflicting view of Scripture. So Benny Hill is ok on his theology because he is “honest” as if we all know that folks like Joel Osteen; Rev. Schuller; Billy Graham; David Koresh; Jim Jones; were/are all “honest” despite the personal and family fortunes these individuals have made peddling their own brand of Bible Scripture.
So Benedict’s Regensburg Address is “flawed” reasoning because he is talking about “Catholicism” and never mind his address is widely studied in the theological departments of major universities. Are we supposed to cut some slack on Bible Christians because they are bereft of real scholars and theologians, and the more reputable ones have ditched their brand of Protestantism and converted to Christianity. Indeed, the great John Henry Newman is a convert to Catholicism. Of Course, and here I am guessing, 99.99% of Protestants have never bothered to read his works. Those who do apparently convert to Catholicism.
Catholics with “even gumption” What does this mean? Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, Benedict XVI are cowards? intellectually dishonest? Richard Neuhaus, America’s foremost Lutheran scholar and pastor who converted to Catholicism and become a Catholic Priest converted because of “gumption” or was it because Protestantism and all its multi-brands to thinking-people is a shallow and bankrupt faith?
Protestantism resulted not in the “greatest Reformation” but more appropriately in the words of one of the renowned English essayists, Hillaire Belloc, Protestantism “spawned a cluster of heresies.”