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I would go to the Catechism to see first what is a matter of belief and what isn't. Virtually everyone on here incl believers skips that step. But certain things are totally not of Faith at all

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/cate...

Simple , it takes something God never said and disqualifies everything He did say.

This one converted and rocked the world of atheists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1F35ExQnVE

agnosco

Latin

Alternative forms

adgnōscō

Etymology

From ad- +‎ (g)nōscō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /aɡˈnoːs.koː/, [aŋˈnoːs.koː]

Verb

agnōscō ‎(present infinitive agnōscere, perfect active agnōvī, supine agnitum); third conjugation

I recognize, realize or discern

I acknowledge or claim

He doesn't NEED them.

St Augustine destroyed him centuries ago by pointing out that his argument actually assumes God doesn't have the power to bring good from evil and that God only permits evil that He will bring a greater good from

Then what could tell us that religion had a different origin ? This is just logically saying There must be no God because there will be people who falsely use God to explain thunder!!! A billion similar questions have two answers, as in 'Some people came up with religion because of thunder' but some didn't, they had good reasons.

LOGIC

Islam !!! well, being a fool he didn't judge by firsthand knowledge so let's look at that, shall we

Writing in The River War, his account of the British retaking of Sudan, published in 1899, Churchill noted the threat to Western Civilization radical Islam poses:

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

(emphasis added)

Islam, Churchill wrote, “is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKV8psvnaQ

Report: Bill Clinton Was Fully Aware Of Rwandan Genocide, And Did Nothing

April 6, 2015 By PPD Staff

The Clinton Lie That Might Have Cost 300,000 Lives

ccording to a review panel’s newly released transcript and declassified State Department documents obtained by Colum Lynch of Foreign Policy from the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the administration had been warned of the planned genocide more than a year prior.

“I must rebut rapidly. President Clinton did not want to know,” Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, the U.N.’s Canadian force commander said. “I hold Clinton accountable. He can excuse himself as much as he wants to the Rwandans, but he established a policy that he did not want to know.”

AND HERE IS LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKV8psvnaQ

ndeed, it is common today for atheists to say, “I can’t prove that there is no God—but I think it highly unlikely that he exists, or at least I haven’t seen convincing proof of his existence, so I don’t believe in him.”

Whether they think it highly unlikely that God exists, or whether they just have not been presented with proof they consider sufficient, they are doing the same thing: adopting a belief without certain proof.

In other words, they are exercising faith.

They are in the same position as the ordinary Christian who holds the existence of God despite his acknowledgement that he does not have conclusive proof of this.

And atheists exercising faith in this way are doing so regarding the central belief of atheism—the non-existence of God.

ndeed, it is common today for atheists to say, “I can’t prove that there is no God—but I think it highly unlikely that he exists, or at least I haven’t seen convincing proof of his existence, so I don’t believe in him.”

Whether they think it highly unlikely that God exists, or whether they just have not been presented with proof they consider sufficient, they are doing the same thing: adopting a belief without certain proof.

In other words, they are exercising faith.

They are in the same position as the ordinary Christian who holds the existence of God despite his acknowledgement that he does not have conclusive proof of this.

And atheists exercising faith in this way are doing so regarding the central belief of atheism—the non-existence of God.

Did you know that more Americans now die from suicide than are killed in car crashes each year?

According to the CDC, there has been a substantial spike in suicide deaths in the United States in recent years. Today, approximately 9.3 million Americans admit to having suicidal thoughts, and approximately 2.7 million Americans each year actually make a plan for how they would commit suicide. We are a deeply, deeply unhappy nation

(1) History shows monotheism was universal in the beginning and Developmental Psychology shows children are naturally theist.

(2) Death is fearful and judgment is worse. The question is first what is the truth of the matter. Fear may or may not be justified. It is wishful thinking for a fool to dismiss religion and God because they don't want judgment to be true !!!!

3) CD is just a stupid claim...every human being must have some undigested truths (or falsehoods) as life goes on

Has to be since all that is is from His Thought bringing it into being.

espousing Sola Scriptura and Private Interpretation.

Stephen Jay Gould vouched for the brilliance and education of Kurt Wise, who studied under him. He said that Wise understood evolution fully and he did not accept it.

We need to examine the first three Gospels, the Synoptics, for just six facts-facts that are not entangled with ancient cultural patterns, which would make it necessary for us to reconstruct those patterns. No, what we need are things the original onlookers could easily observe and accurately report.

FACT 1: There was a man called Jesus.

FACT 2: He claimed to be a messenger sent by God.

FACT 3: He did enough to prove that He was such a messenger.

!

FACT 4: Crowds followed Christ. But He had an inner circle to whom He spoke more intimately. This is merely what we would expect.

FACT 5: He told His followers to continue His teaching.

FACT 6: Jesus gave the message that God would protect that teaching: “He who hears you hears me; he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me” (Luke 10:16).

In summary then, we see a group that is commissioned to teach by a messenger sent by God, and promised God’s protection for that teaching. These observations are made without treating the Scriptures as inspired

Read more: http://www.catholicfidelity.com/free-from-all-erro...

Israeli scholar Shlomo Pines writes, “Even the most bitter opponents of Christianity never expressed any doubt as to Jesus having really lived.”

World historian Will Durant notes that no Jew or Gentile from the first-century ever denied the existence of Jesus.

Will

C. ON EARLY DEATH*

7But the righteous one, though he die early, shall be at rest.d

8For the age that is honorable comes not with the passing of time,e

nor can it be measured in terms of years.

9Rather, understanding passes for gray hair,

and an unsullied life is the attainment of old age.

10* The one who pleased God was loved,f

living among sinners, was transported—

11Snatched away, lest wickedness pervert his mind

or deceit beguile his soul

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