There's almost no evidence that Julius Caesar wasn't just a legend - the only direct evidence is a few scraps of parchment.
Most of the ancient writings about Julius Caesar are by hagiographical sycophants, power-worshippers and other Roman propagandists.
You are eager to believe in the claims...
As an ideal - that is, as founded by Jesus Christ - the RCC is perfect.
But it has to exist at ground level, thus be run by human beings, though, some of whom have dragged it through the mud.
Which is their fault and that of human nature - not the fault of the RCC, still less Jesus Christ.
So also can abortion ruin a woman's life.
I believe in free education and healthcare and support for stay-at-home mothers.
Here in the UK, religion is less politicised and polarised than in the USA.
As God - when on earth in the person of Jesus Christ - founded the Catholic Church, that's toot.
And why hate Catholics ? It's bigots - unbelievers, mainly - who hate.
Egocentric. No - it's focused on Truth.
And is a more honourable - and honest ! - pursuit than choosing not to seek Truth or pretending that it can't be found.
"A mild inconvenience" ?? Atrocious and near-fatal mental anguish in Gethsemane, being beaten up and ridiculed by Roman soldiers, flogged half-to-pieces by a Roman flogging, carrying a cross through the scornful stares of a city population, nailed to a cross, then left to die in agony (after...
A Real God is a god that can create a universe, then hold it in being.
This distinguishes God from His creations (e.g. a neighbour, the weather) or our sub-creations (e.g a keyboard).
And shows God to be - not a mere concept - but the Living God, as real as, and infinitely more effective and...
Quantum fluctuations - random or other - are features of the universe.
Ergo, they didn't exist before the universe did.
Ergo, they didn't create the universe.
The odds are irrelevant - as we DO exist.
Yes - my soul (like all human souls) was created personally by God, to fill and direct the body-mind created by one's parents' act of sexual intercourse.