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  1. jamiec

    How Catholicism Got Cool: Why Young Americans and People Around the World Are Flocking to the Catholic Church...

    Fads mean very little. Catholicism did rather well - in the US - from 1945 to 1965, until it crashed, and the new trend was for deconversion stories. Euphoria at what is superficially favourable is extremely dangerous, and has to be guarded against as the deadly danger that it is. Having a US...
  2. jamiec

    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    Same here. I agree that the days in the creation myth in Genesis 1 are normal familiar 24-hour days, but they are days in a myth, days that did not happen. What happened, was the evolution of the earth’s biology and palaeontology, once the Earth had come into being and had cooled down...
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    Adam is mentioned by name once in the Gospels in St Luke 3.38. And there is an implicit reference to Adam & Eve in the teaching of Jesus on marriage in St Matthew.
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    Exodus 31:17 "in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth"

    “Bishop Ussher covers YEC of the last 6,000 years very well. He gives a lot of detail in his 2,000 page book. It was written 500 years ago” No: 375 years ago, in 1650.
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    Exodus 31:17 "in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth"

    And the 7th yom, the Sabbath yom, is a 24-hour day - it does not last for thousands of years. So it makes no sense, in Gen 1 or Exodus 20, to understand the word as meaning thousands of years. So ISTM that all those days in Gen 1 are to be understood as normal familiar days of 24 hours. Why...
  6. jamiec

    Easter Sunday vs Bible recorded Resurrection Day

    By that logic, the NT should never ever be used as Scripture, because: 1. The NT books post-date Proverbs 30.5-6 by a long way 2. Scripture never lists any 27 NT books as Scripture; and never hints at the existence of any Scriptures other than the Jewish ones, and possibly 1 Enoch. And Jesus...
  7. jamiec

    Why did God choose Israel?

    IMHO, God did not choose Israel. Any more than God chose the UK, the USA, Poland, China, Germany, or any other country. I think the talk in the OT about Israel being chosen, is national propagandist mythology, no different from any other; and that some or all of it is a reaction to the trauma of...
  8. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Another page that may add something to this thread: Inquisitio
  9. jamiec

    Why do some Catholic leaders seem irreligious? And what is the data on Catholic Priests and other leaders who lost faith during or after retiring?

    On what do you base those two judgements ? If you don’t understand the Catholic Church’s “worship style”, you are in no position to criticise it. Catholic worship is not entertainment. And on what do you base that judgement ? On what do you base that judgement ? And how do you conclude...
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    How long does Purgatory last?

    C S Lewis believed there was some sort of Purgatory; and he was an Anglican.
  11. jamiec

    How long does Purgatory last?

    Presumably, until the individual soul is fit for God’s Presence - and therefore, is thoroughly purified of all “roots of offending”; that is, when that soul has been thoroughly refined and purified and renewed. Like “the words of the LORD“ which are “like silver refined in a furnace of clay...
  12. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    The sources I have found on-line give figures of between 50 million and 68 million. My guess is that I found the figure of 130 million in the first of the Alberto comics, published by Jack Chick. I no longer have my copy, and I am very unwilling to buy another in order to verify the reference...
  13. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    It doesn’t sound as if we disagree.
  14. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Perhaps the “Enskotiōsis” - from Gk. *skotia*, “darkness”.
  15. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    ISTM that what you are describing is rationalism - not reason. Reason is good, if used well, with an awareness of its limitations, of its proper use and competence, and if it is cultivated together with other aspects of human nature that are no less important than reason; such as the moral &...
  16. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    I’ll try and find it find it for you. This was some years ago, and I remember the figure because it was the highest figure for an alleged Catholic body-count that I had so far come across.
  17. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    A figure of 130 million killed by Catholicism generally, has been stated on some Seventh-Day Adventist websites. On what this figure is based, is anyone’s guess. Some Chick tracts and comics give figures of several tens of millions. Neither of these sources gives references to their sources for...
  18. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    A great deal of history is violent. Yet historians from what were Allied and Axis countries can discuss the histories of the Third Reich & of WW2, in all their aspects, in a civilised manner - so why should “civilised discussion”. of the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 onwards, be impossible ? If a...
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    Spanish Inquisiton

    There are ways of knowing what methods were used, because the procedure of the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 onward was based on previous practice, as laid out in the Directory of Inquisitors of the 14th-century Inquisitor Nicholas Eymerich: “Eymerich's most prominent and enduring work was the...
  20. jamiec

    Spanish Inquisiton

    STM that if figures can’t be ascertained to be accurate, they should not be suggested; in order to avoid producing fake history. I think that if a range of figures has been suggested, each should be discussed on its merits, and accepted or dismissed (with whatever degree of caution) accordingly.
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