[quote]Makavali wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
so what you’re saying is because I’m religious…I do not question? Isn’t that some kind of logical fallacy as well?[/quote]
You’re less likely to question.[/quote]
I would have to claim here that depends on the individual person. I saw how my mother was persuaded by any Dick and Jane argument. She was a Catholic in name, but I never saw her go to Church and half the time she acted like an atheist and the other half like a blood sucking protestant. I also see people around me that change their stance every other week. It seemed ridiculous to be persuaded by such arguments. My mother is on one spectrum, somethings she would never question, other things she would not question but change her mind on every few weeks. The other people are on the other spectrum, they have no solid believes (wrong or right) and change their minds every week. Neither question.
I didn’t want to be a person that did such foolish things, so I will accept a dogma from the Church for logistics sake, and figure out what it actually means, look at both sides of the argument. It took me over four years to figure out if the Catholic Church was Jesus’ Church. I read history book after history book (which I found out after reading all those books that history books really aren’t that “unbiased”) until I came across some papers wrote by Ignatius of Antioch (who died in 110 AD and knew one of the 12 Apostles personally) where he talked about the Traditions of the Church and actually called the Church the Catholic Church. After that, I reconciled all things I had found and five months later decided the Catholic Church was in fact the Church of Jesus and the Jewish prophecies.