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Originally Posted by pianoperformer  Set up? You are being intentionally vague.
Incorrect. They do know who wrote most of the books, except Hebrews, I believe. The Gospel of Thomas was not written by Thomas, but was written a century or two after he lived.
They discouraged faulty translations, and also private interpretation, separate from the magisterium of the Church. You are levelin ga lot of accusations without being specific.
More vague accusations. Unless you desire to have a fair discussion without you attacking the Church and Christianity, as you have done in previous posts, I think I'm done with this conversation. I simply want to clarify people's misconceived notions about the Church, often spread by those who hate the Catholic Church and twist history and its teachings to put it in a bad light. |
This is a pretty interesting and non-biased (neither christian nor "militantly against such") or incendiary read:
from jesus to christ: why did christianity succeed?: legimitization under constantine (there are other interesting looking links at the bottom of the page as well, haven't read them yet though)
Doesn't go into the saints part though, and I'd have to look that up again to explain much of it coherently.
Again, if I were trying to "baselessly attack Catholicism", what I've said here would be the tamest, most sedated excuse for an attack imaginable that anyone could make.
Edit: Out of curiosity, when did you become Catholic? I could have sworn you'd previously posted about having similar beliefs to mine, more in the "Deistic" (if that's such a word, probably isn't) vein of their possibly being some sort of creative energy/force/whatever out there that everything stems from, but not believing at all in an anthromorphic, seperate concious being as a God... Maybe I've got you mixed up with someone else though.