Roman Catholicism

1. So either god is wise and all knowing which must mean his laws are eternal or he and they are not, you can't have it both ways. Thus if his if he is wise and all knowing his laws from leviticus and deuteronomy must be continued, if not and his laws are subject to change and scrutiny just like any other law what is the point of listening and talking his word over someone else's? If you say as you do that there was no dogma or doctrine that said the earth was the center of the universe why lock up an innocent man for releasing the fact; Galileo? Pope Urban II it has been said used this parable/ spiritual lesson Luke 19:11-27 " But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them"bring them here and kill them in front of me" to justify the first crusade. In your submission is this not doctrine found in the bible that could be used to mandate holy war? So in your view human sacrifice and vicarious redemption are good things? I'm sure the church would not have had to apologise for not speaking up for the jews if they had spoken up for the jews. 2. Good to see you answer the question. 3. However you failed again to answer this question. The question is not about abstinence. The question is due to the fact that there is a high number of priests that abuse children could their be something wrong with the culture of the priesthood? That's it, I suggested abstinence as one possible reason, you disagreed but you did still not give me your view which is what I want. 4. I find your analogy here very weak and still sexist. It's not like comparing a snickers and a skittle at all they are both human beings to refer to your analogy both skittles. I know in my country australia unisex bathrooms are on the rise. but a possibility of why they are separate is not because they are different and should be kept separate as you would have, but could be argued a safety issue. But all this still begs the question since you're so hung up on gender roles, what is the role are the women left with? I'm glad you raised the issue of condoms, id like to know what in your view is worse condoms or aids? 5. (there is no need to continue the back and forth with this one) 6. You agreed to the big bang and were unsure how long the human race homo sapiens have been around your estimation was in the millions, not quite but it does not matter you can substitute the relevant mathematics if you want for my next question. Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins (a devout christian) says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins (a devout atheist) thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. This is what you have to believe In order to be a catholic, for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, not knowing how disease spread or what earthquakes or storms were all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't let's appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. I'd say this is nonsense. So my question is to you, does this seem plausible, do you truly believe this? 7. Even though the dogma of the church and it is the dogma, is that only catholics can go to heaven? You also Implied that humans can never know what happens when you die which I agree with, so do you think it is moral that the church has for centuries been holding the keys to heaven and hell telling people what will lead there if no one can know for certain what happens when you die? 8. I'm glad to see you have taken a step back from 'false faith'. Now if it where proven beyond doubt that catholicism was false would it then not in your view be a wicked, evil teaching? 9. I think you feel I am leading towards the warrants for slavery found in the bible however I shall not raise that. I'm glad you and I can both agree that slavery is wrong. However If I was you I would feel I would be very dishonest to say god also agrees with us. This is a god who tells us what we should eat or not eat, what to do on our days of (sabbath), how to punish people and for what crimes (often calling for death for the most insignificant crimes like disrespecting your parents), tells us whom we can sleep with and in what position, can punish us for thoughtcrime (just for what we think), creates us sick as apparently we are and then orders us to be well again under pain of eternal torture. This is celestial dictatorship, a divine North Korea, totalitarian. And to wish to live this way is to wish to live as an abject slave. Again in your view is this teaching of catholicism not slavery in it's most myriad of forms?