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Patrick1966

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How many of the artists that painted Jesus white have been dead for centuries? Should they be exhumed, horse whipped, executed, and returned to their grave?
 

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So you're saying there were no dark skinned people in Gethsemane ? You're evidence for this please?
So irrelevant. Implied is your embrace of multculturalism that not only is wrong, didn't exist at the time in question. Holding people to a non-existent standard is a sign extreme stupidity is at play.
 

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How many of the artists that painted Jesus white have been dead for centuries? Should they be exhumed, horse whipped, executed, and returned to their grave?
Good point. Artists of every age are influenced by their culture when Jesus is depicted. The fact that they painted Him at all is a good thing. The variety of Jesus portraits are massive, it could involve an interesting historical study of surrounding influences. For what it's worth, Jesus was a Palestinian and most likely had an olive complexion, neither white or black, as are Palestinians today. If someone chooses to paint Jesus with blue eyes and blonde hair, it doesn't bother me in the least. Jesus gave His whole Being out of infinite love for humanity, so it doesn't matter what an artists tries to invoke. But to say He was gay is a blasphemous insult.

Three of the oldest images of Jesus portray him as the “Good Shepherd”


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just to irritate the legalists.
 
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Education should not be confused with indoctrination. The Catholic Church was the strongest advocate of their version of education.

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization​

Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new paperback edition of his critically-acclaimed book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Woods goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. Gifts such as modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods. In How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, you’ll learn:
  • Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church
  • How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith
  • How the Catholic Church invented the university
  • Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong
  • How Western law grew out of Church canon law
  • How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life

    No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church—and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.

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note: Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. is not a Catholic, so you can't complain of doctrinal bias.

Reviews:

“An excellent work…. We are reminded by Professor Woods that the earliest universities fostered a dialogue between faith and reason, along with logical theory and a spirit of investigation. Perhaps this is the greatest secret of Western civilization over the past four centuries. It is my cherished hope that this book will serve to unlock this hidden mystery.”
-from the foreword by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares

“This book couldn’t have come at a better time for Catholics clinging to their faith against an increasingly hostile and skeptical world…. Well argued and well researched.”
Dallas Morning News

“Engaging and engrossing, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is a mine of information and a stimulus for reflection on the debt we owe to Catholic life and thought.”
-Michael P. Foley, assistant professor of Patristics, Great Texts Program, Baylor University

“Dr. Woods’s book is a superb and scholarly refutation of the widespread and deeply rooted prejudice that the supernatural outlook of the Roman Catholic Church disqualifies Her to make any valuable contribution to the ‘progress’ of humanity. This book is a magnificent illustration of Christ’s saying: ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His justice; the rest will be added unto you.’ Whether we turn to science, legal questions, economics, education, scholarship, fine arts, Dr. Woods shows convincingly the fecundity of a supernatural approach to life. This book is highly recommended.”
-Alice von Hildebrand, professor emeritus, the City University of New York

Read the original article at TomWoods.com. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization | Tom Woods
 
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Education should not be confused with indoctrination. The Catholic Church was the strongest advocate of their version of education.
Care to offer the correct version of education? Where do I sign up?
Education should not be confused from indoctrinating relativistic Modernist liberals and materialist sceptics.

What exactly do you mean by their version of education??? Universities are universal, that's why they are called "universities." There are Catholic and non-Catholic universities, so where do you think the basic structure of all of them originated???

It was, after all, in the High Middle Ages that the university came into existence. The university, which developed and matured at the height of Catholic Europe, was a new phenomenon in European history. Nothing like it had existed in ancient Greece or Rome. The institution that we recognize today, with its faculties, courses of study, examinations, and degrees, as well as the familiar distinction between undergraduate and graduate study, comes to us directly from the medieval world. And it is no surprise that the Church should have done so much to foster the nascent university system since, according to historian Lowrie Daly, it was "the only institution in Europe that showed consistent interest in the preservation and cultivation of knowledge."
The precise origins of the very first universities are lost in obscurity, though the picture becomes ever clearer as we move into the thirteenth century. We cannot give exact dates for the appearance of universities at Paris and Bologna, Oxford and Cambridge, since they evolved over a period of time — the former beginning as cathedral schools, and the latter as informal gatherings of masters and students. But we may safely say that the process occurred during the latter half of the twelfth century.​

The institution that we recognize today, with its faculties, courses of study, examinations, and degrees, as well as the familiar distinction between undergraduate and graduate study, comes to us directly from the medieval world. Is that the '"their version of education." you are talking about?

Catholicism has never claimed to be the only candy store on the block. And we don't shrink from strictest scientific investigation either.

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.”​

― Pope John Paul II
 
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