The question isn't whether it has nothing (as in zero) to offer. The question is whether its fundamental beliefs are true, from the resurrection to tr...
I stepped away a minute and a few pages went by, so sorry if I've missed a point here or there. I'd draw a distinction between faith generally and rel...
No one's trying to pass you I don't think. If I wanted to, though, I could crush your spirit and leave you helpless with the bat of an eye (yes, I can...
I like hard work. On Saturdays I volunteer planting trees, tearing out invasive plants, and carrying water buckets. It beats office work. I get that s...
With all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about? I ask because I want to be a part of the convo, but I'm not sure if you're talking about ki...
I would agree that statements against interest carry greater weight, the most significant being a confession (which is precisely why they must be give...
You don't need to know any langauge other than English when traveling to other countries. Just speak really loud and slow and point a lot and speak in...
I know exactly what this means. You're worried about all sorts of shit you can't control so you're trying to assure yourself that you're doing exactly...
Longevity can be the result of all sorts of things, from it being true, to it being functional, to it being a way to manipulate the masses, to it bein...
This is the part of the discussion I disagree with you the most I suppose, which I'll get back to in a second. As it relates to transubstantiation and...
The problem is that transubstantiation is no different than any other faith based belief, where followers just accept the impossible as a tenet of the...
I Google translated it: What a beautiful one, they called Mezalina everyone learned of it the precious good they did not know it before after all, the...
My favorite game: There once was a young lady from Shmangina Whose mother just came from Carolina Her father barged in stinking of gin While his dog a...
My tree fell down, and I suspect the cat, although it could have been the dog as well. If the cat, she was climbing it. If the dog, he was eating it. ...
Alright, so you have an object, a cracker. It's accidently made of wheat and essentially made of crackerness. The priest says his prayer and now it's ...
We created the same analogy cross posting where I used the blood of Moses and you used the blood of Zeus in an amazing moment of synchronicity. I now ...
It doesn't have to be material, but it has to be some substance in the wafer that changed. If wafers have spirits or some non-material composition, th...
Nope, I've got that straight. The accidental properties remain unchanged but an essential change to the substance occurs, thus rooting this whole disc...
That's an epistemological issue, not a metaphysical one, but not even correct. We could know the substance changed by its behavior prior to altering i...
By "substantial," I mean something changed to the actual substance of the bread and wine, or, in my analogy, the substance of the man and wife. It is ...
That you don't recognize the distinction doesn't mean there's not one though. You're just indicating your inability to understand. The Catholic Church...
So, it strikes me that the philosophical grounds for this argument (as I really don't think anyone here is considering changing their minds on the ide...
This is the exact conversation that I've been having with MU, although he doesn't seem to accept the analogy you've provided. I don't necessarily see ...
And I don't so much have a problem with that, and have pointed it out previously (indicating he was referencing relativistic notions of reality), but ...
If you assess the facts and believe there to be a dog, you will have that belief even if you don't utter it. If you are a judge and believe the witnes...
You have expressed your concern over sexual jokes before, and it's not that you've been ignored. My view is that this board is an adult oriented board...
People have the right, of course, to be passionate and from time to time to be intemperate within certain bounds, and we don't wish to over-moderate t...
That's not what I said. I said there's a difference between assessing facts and decreeing facts. In the first, you take a look at the world, you asses...
Why are you asking a question about a distinction I never raised? My comment was that there was a difference between assessing facts and decreeing fac...
Your comments misstated the Catholic position by stating that transubstantiation exists because the Catholic church said it did. That has nothing to d...
That's not what I said. What I said was: "The Church's authority is to speak with authority on assessing and gathering facts, but it doesn't have the ...
No it's not. That I say bigfoot exists doesn't make bigfoot exist. When a court rules "you are in contempt," you are in fact in contempt because the c...
The distinction I'm making is between reporting the facts and decreeing the facts. The former is what the Church would admit doing, the latter is what...
You present an argument that the Church doesn't, namely that the Church is the creator of Christ and the determiner of what is the blood and body of J...
That's a different sort of faith. In religious contexts, faith is an absolute trust in a foundational belief that permits an entire worldview to devel...
Your understanding of transubstantion is simply incorrect. Your analogy offers no change at all in the girl, but a change of opinion in guy. If all yo...
This isn't entirely responsive. Is the child's faith the same faith as the Catholic's and why doesn't my faith in unicorns establish the existence of ...
The Catholic position is that the replacement is actual and literal. That it is empirically unverifiable is part of the supposed mystery of it. Your r...
If a child somehow depends upon "faith" to understand "clean your room" means clean your room, and a Catholic relies upon "faith" to believe in transu...
I never used the harsh tactic of sexual denial as a manipulative tool. I'm up to 60 hours a week at the inner city sperm bank barter co-op and I'm sim...
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