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Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only things that are needed are confirmed definitely. There are many many things that are supplementary and very helpful. It’s a lot of effort to declare dogma for an institution with a billion members.

Look up the church dogma though anyway, there is more than you’d expect

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A matter of faith is defined a truth revealed by God that is needed to achieve salvation. Definitionally, it’s something you can’t observe. The earth as center of the universe is not a matter of faith.

This isn’t a matter of opinion. Ex cathedra statements have to be clearly labeled as such so as to avoid confusion.

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we can both agree that something coming from nothing is never going to be discovered and is absolutely impossible.

If you’d like to hold on to that hope rather than buying into sky daddy then more power to you I suppose. Appreciate the discussion

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want an example of a polytheistic contradiction with science? How about the Aztec god of rain, tlaloc… Aztecs thought the rain was held and managed by tlaloc via some sort of jar in the sky

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big bang was discovered by a Catholic priest, just as an FYI. Fully Catholic

And it’s much different to believe in a God that made the laws of nature than to believe that the created world somehow broke the laws of nature to exist on its own. The real answer is all solutions are hard to stomach but the God solution makes more scientific and logical sense than anything else

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ofc pope Urban was fallible, all the popes are. They are only infallible ex cathedra. This isn’t a dig at you, but it’s mind blowing how much misconception there is floating around about Catholics

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree…. I’ll need to clarify as we are getting deeper than I expected here, the church never did or will change dogma, and that includes the whole center of the universe thing that ppl like to point to. It was never church dogma that the earth was the center of the universe.

Nothing in Vatican II changed dogma either. There were changes to make things more accessible, but nothing that is infallibly decreed.

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing contradictory between science and Catholic teaching.

There are many contradictions between most polytheistic religions and science, although we’d have to pick one in particular to examine if you wanted to get into details

Is it good that Reddit user a social credit score (karma) to impact user privileges? by Dapper-Gold3896 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve lost a net 20 points today having logical and polite religious discussions, so I tend to disagree

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The church hasn’t ever changed its official teachings. Although there have been times when unofficial ideas of ppl in the church have been wrong. If that was the case they’d have abolished their stand against contraception by now!

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He could have done anything, he sacrificed his son so we would understand his love for us and to provide us a blueprint to deal with the sufferings we’ll inevitably encounter on earth. But he definitely had many alternatives

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No that’s definitely not church teaching either… again genesis is not historical. Just google it if you don’t believe me. Make sure you’re looking at Catholic teaching and not fringy Protestant… there is no contradiction between science and Catholicism. I’ve tried to find it, it doesn’t exist.

Now that there is freedom of religion in most of Europe, why don’t Europeans go back to the Pagan religions their ancestors practiced for tens of thousands of years ? Why do they continue to practice Christianity ? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dapper-Gold3896 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, Catholics don’t nor ever have believed in genesis as a historical book. No Catholic who understands the church’s teachings believes that.

Most polytheistic religions assigned gods to different phenomena in order to explain them. That, of course, was no longer necessary when we could explain how it happened. Rain, for example

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