Hitchens and dawkins, etc

[Betterave]

I can see your point here. I guess it was God’s one and only commandment, and his will was infinite, so that which goes against his will does so infinity. It’s like the difference between one and infinity, I guess. I never looked at it the way you do, so you may have a valid point.

Okay, good. It really does seem to me more in keeping with the teaching of the Church to avoiding saying that we infinitely offended God (for one, if God was truly infinitely offended he wouldn’t have kept loving us, continued to reveal himself to us, or become one of us). So our offence wasn’t infinitely offensive to God; it was 'mortally’ offensive for us, and it was so simply because of what it was: a deliberate rejection of the one and only source of our life.

 

[Jocko_VT]

Do you have any reasons? Or do you have too much on your plate? (With other threads)

I have a bit more time now. We can discuss if you like. I’ll have to go back to those earlier posts later, though, to remember the points being made–hopefully today.

 

[tonyrey]

I have a bit more time now. We can discuss if you like. I’ll have to go back to those earlier posts later, though, to remember the points being made–hopefully today.

Take your time. The points are topical but not topical - if you see what I mean.

 

[JDaniel]

I’m sorry that you give every ounce of you consideration to your fellow catholics, and none to me.

Should I?

God bless,
jd

 

[Jocko_VT]

Should I?

God bless,
jd

If you really have to ask, and given that you haven’t given it, perhaps not, but that doesn’t change my feelings on the matter (i.e., I would say you should, but you know well enough for yourself what you need to do). All the same, I’ve moved on. Perhaps I’ll see you around.

 

[Betterave]

Should I?

God bless,
jd

I think you should. Obviously I’ve pointed out specific problems with Jocko’s arguments/argument style myself (which in the end he has been fairly gracious about), but I still think he is a much more ethically motivated debater than many of the Catholics and Christians you run into around here.

“Many will say to me, ‘Lord, lord…’”

In terms of fraternal correction, we Christians are actually supposed to be harder on each other than on unbelievers.