Pope Pius XII

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If any religious teachings can't be found in the Bible, they aren't from God.

POPE PIUS XII: "Catholics who profess communism are excommunicated from the Christian faith and declared to be apostates."

True or False. Marcel Reed will be the best QB in the SEC this season.

How did protestants get tricked into believing that divorce is not a sin?

No Orthodox person has ever converted to Catholicism, ever

They should limit abortions to half a million per year.

Last year, I was the victim of adultery. All I can say is is that it was a struggle to stay alive. And it was a struggle to not put the other guy in the hospital. I have the sweetest, most talented kids. I know my presence in the home blesses their lives. But living in a home with my wife, who still desires the other guy, kills me. It truly kills me. I really don’t know what to do. Do I suffer for the sake of my kids and have a “roommate” for a wife? Or do I start over, with the hopes that one day, I can marry someone who actually likes me?

They really squeeze a whole lot of bad theology out of a handful of verses.

Why doesn't God save everyone?

My view is a bit different. I just can't help but believe that God exists and that Jesus rose from the dead (like I've tried to make believe that Jesus' body was still in the tomb and I was unable). Even during some 'dark nights of the soul' I have had certain experiences of Christ where my heart became warm and love for Jesus poured out. My heart felt healed. If my beliefs were/are the result of the right externalist conditions being in place, I'm good. (Nevin is now punching the air rn) But I do think that there are good arguments for God and the resurrection of Jesus. Things that exist but don't have to (even if eternal), need explanations. The universe (or if you prefer a reductivist/deflationary understanding of the universe, we can say the collection of all events or an infinite chain of events), could have been different. It needs an explanation. I think there are at least two ways to get from the contingent nature of all of space and time to God. Moreover, I think the fine-tuning evidence is such that it helps make plausible the theist position. I'm just starting to write about it but I believe there is also a good argument for God/Buddha nature/Dao/Tian from perennial beliefs/truths. I differ a little from my friend Nevin, in that I think you can make a plausible case for the resurrection of Jesus from minimal facts that most scholars already believe, at least, if you have God already in your background knowledge. I'm not satisfied at all with purely naturalistic accounts and I don't think many people are. Unpopular I know, but I also believe there is a case to be made re messianic prophecy. Ultimately, I also think there is something rather striking and supernatural about the person of Jesus as understood/remembered by the early Christian communities. If God is already part of (k), seeing Christ as the face of can be made reasonable.

Jesus Christ is the head of the church, And the Pope is the Vicar of Christ.