Thats funny, I dont remember any announcements at mass about Catholicism retreating.
They went back on their stance on Galileo.
They went back on their stance on evolution.
That's what comes to mind immediately, anyway.
And of course Catholicism itself is a subdivision of Christianity because they couldn't agree with some aspects of the base religion.
Other than that, I'm talking about the wider trends, such as the samples I gave earlier. Yes, there was a part of the world where they really did think that a giant whale caused the tides. Yes, in ancient Egypt, the Sun was pulled across the sky by someone in a chariot. Yes, in ancient Greece, a big person was responsible for holding "up" Earth.
These old explanations are no longer needed.
The Moon's gravitational interaction with Earth causes the tides. No great whale has ever been found.
The Sun doesn't even move across the sky, Earth instead orbits a distant star. No creature with a chariot has ever been seen towing either body along.
Earth doesn't need to be held up, as it generates its own gravity, and our satellites haven't spotted this alleged large person who's holding the planet.
Religion's track record on accuracy isn't too good.
I do remember them asking us to pray for the end of abortion and a call for ethical medical research that respects life.
Well, ok, they ask you to do stuff that matches their beliefs. I don't know why they're asking God to do something about our legislation, but, whatever. I didn't know he even had a vote in Congress. You can pray, or you can actually do something which genuinely does affect reality.
And as far as my faith being blind, quite the opposite is true. I have seen enough evidence of Gods existance throughout my life. Not to mention the angels that serve us on his behalf, like our former family members. ()
Well, if you've seen it, well, I can't do anything about that. Thus far, I've not seen or experienced anything even
remotely close to even
suggesting a possibility of there being a likelihood of there perhaps being any kind of spiritual realm, or angels, or whatever stuff like that. As far as I'm concerned, once relatives die, they're gone quite exceptionally permanently, save for a decaying corpse in the ground, photographs, and memories we have of them. And there's the implications of voyeurism that are just kind of creepy. Oh, and there's also the fact that bad things constantly happen to good people. "Phew, my guardian angel was looking out for me," said the lone survivor of a plane crash which killed 100 other people. Guess their angels were slacking that day.
Hell, just the fact that there have been
billions of dead people thus far, many more than the current living population of Earth, seems to be evidence enough that they
aren't influencing this world's living population. If even a small portion of them interacted with us on a regular basis, I think our system of physics laws would have utterly collapsed long ago, due to constant inconsistencies caused by interventions of dead people.
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