> On 1 Jun 2019, at 15:10, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:16 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >> From the Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7 page 792: > "The son of God is omniscient and omnipotent knowing history in advance and > being able to control its course”. > > > The Pope Jean-Paul 2 made explicit that all statement of that kind are > > parabola and should never been taken literally. > > That's the exact same excuse Trump suporters use when they to try to explain > away his many many lies. > > > Of course, that is debated by some catholic, bu I have still never met a > > christian who believe in the anything as naive. > > You sure have not met many Christians! I have never met a Christian who > didn't believe something exactly that naive. I concede there are a few that > have abandoned the idea of Christianity but not the ASCII sequence > C-h-r-i-s-t-i-a-n-i-t-y, although I have not personally met them.
That is possible. Maybe the European christians are more protected from irrationalism than the American one, where there is that evangelical permanent shows. > > > You might read the book by Jean Trouillard or Paul Valadier. You might > > change your mind on this, but perhaps you don’t want to change your mind. > > I don't want to read their books because I see little point in reading a book > written by someone who knows even less about how the world really works than > I do. Life is too short to read every book ever written so one must use > judgement and be selective. You confirme that you criticise what you have not studied. That is hardly rational. Bruno > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3hVx%3D2Oogeu3gVY6G%2BOVpP7_KNbDe-QJX9t9OQbd_ZBQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3hVx%3D2Oogeu3gVY6G%2BOVpP7_KNbDe-QJX9t9OQbd_ZBQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/AB139B1B-698F-4DA7-BA45-B554733ED556%40ulb.ac.be.
