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  1. Quiddity

    Catholic church cannot bless same-sex unions

    Getting a blessing during communion is blessing the individual, not a couple or group. Even cohabitating heterosexual couples aren't supposed to be receiving blessings for similar reasons. This really isn't news to the gay Catholics, some of them already know what they must abstain from and...
  2. Quiddity

    What is the falsification methodology of the God argument?

    It seems......yes. I come in here sporadically and then disappear for sections at a time, I simply don't have the desire to wrestle things out as I used to, other than the occasional pointing of a direction of where one can get the answer. I don't find this format fruitful at the pace and...
  3. Quiddity

    What is the falsification methodology of the God argument?

    Check out his blog. He covers all these nuances.
  4. Quiddity

    What is the falsification methodology of the God argument?

    These have been addressed. I had to read an entire book to wrap my mind around it, so I'd simply recommend you look up some of Feser's work on this specifically. I'd have to thumb through the physical copy I have at home.
  5. Quiddity

    What is the falsification methodology of the God argument?

    It requires more in-depth unpacking, the basic structure of the argument is fairly simple but the background metaphysics to understand what is meant by terms and how it meshes together takes quite a bit of work; At least for me, it does. But in its simplest form, the cosmological argument is...
  6. Quiddity

    What is the falsification methodology of the God argument?

    The physicist should perhaps stay in his lane. The "everything has a cause" is not a premise of the argument and is often misunderstood. Dr. Feser explains: "The stock caricature in question is, of course, the “Everything has a cause, so the universe has a cause” argument. As I’ve pointed out...
  7. Quiddity

    Our Lady of Lourdes

    As others have alluded to, you aren't alone in the slightest with subscribing to this approach. In fact, there is a level of healthy skepticism to the Catholic faith.
  8. Quiddity

    Our Lady of Lourdes

    Nice! Thanks for posting this. :)
  9. Quiddity

    Telling someone from a different faith/belief

    It's not just beliefs. Scientists aren't immune from this either. No one is immune from this.
  10. Quiddity

    Telling someone from a different faith/belief

    It's unlikely you'll get far if you start with "you're wrong". But I don't agree it should be avoided necessarily. Free discourse is the fundamental problem-solving mechanism. With that, comes the necessity to allow people to say the stupidest of things. No one starts off knowing how to engage...
  11. Quiddity

    Rights and Religious Liberty

    @Vouthon When time permits, can you please provide a source for this bit: St. John Chrysostom wrote that executing heretics was an "inexpiable crime". I couldn't find it.
  12. Quiddity

    Abortion isn't that important

    It shouldn't. But you certainly can't get that one wrong.
  13. Quiddity

    Abortion isn't that important

    You'd get much more of a discussion if you came in here without your gun drawn. Your views of the US and religion makes you glow in the dark. Unless of course, you can't help yourself?
  14. Quiddity

    Abortion isn't that important

    It's been for some time the usual antics of secular fundamentalists to say "keep religion out of our government". I suspect Fr. Casey, Pope Francis, and certainly the magisterium do not see it the same way as those who push for an all-encompassing silencing of conscience (or so it seems). We can...
  15. Quiddity

    Abortion isn't that important

    Thoughts? Note: The title was the original title of the video and he got quite a bit of backlash for it.
  16. Quiddity

    Chalking your door

    First time I do this. Byzantine priest did it in Latin and it was a nice experience. Feast of the Epiphany
  17. Quiddity

    Adam, Eve, and incest

    The logic only gets you to the endpoint; not how it works. And by getting to the endpoint, it dissolves other possible propositions (like pantheism, polytheism, etc.). At that point, you can ask a million different questions to which most can't be answered. The only thing they do is make sure...
  18. Quiddity

    Adam, Eve, and incest

    That's been in vogue for some time now and it's an easy dismissal. In part, because most people that are really good at explaining the logic are Phd types and that isn't a copout or fallacy of authority, it really is a series of understanding terms and connecting a long line of dots. For...
  19. Quiddity

    Adam, Eve, and incest

    I agree. IF there was something else, that would certainly put a wrench in the Abrahamic position. But, really this question can be asked ad infinitum and the Aristotelean Thomistic position is that having "the buck stops here" is logical (properly understood). It's full potentiality, the...
  20. Quiddity

    Adam, Eve, and incest

    I fixed it. :grinning: In the Trinitarian formula, God isn't really alone. But either way, your question applies. To which one doesn't really have an answer. Unless of course, it all flows from Him, whereby the act of detachment is the combustion and chaos.
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