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I'm not referring to any specific religion. I'm just saying they were religious. Which religious tradition has the most great minds is a separate question and I
by silent_cal 3y ago
I'm not referring to any specific religion. I'm just saying they were religious. Which religious tradition has the most great minds is a separate question and I don't know the answer, but I would suspect Christianity. But all I'm saying here is that most great minds throughout history were religious.
- silverquiet 3y agoAnd if all the greatest minds of history could not agree on one religion, then what might that imply?
- silent_cal 3y agoIt implies that they wouldn't all agree on religion, just as they would not agree on virtually any other subject
- silverquiet 3y agoDo you not believe in objective truth?
- silent_cal 3y agoI do, but it's hard for a single man's mind to comprehend the whole truth. I think generally you can only master a few aspects of it. I believe Catholicism is the correct religion, but I still admit that there have been many great minds from different religious traditions. This is actually an integral part of the Catholic intellectual tradition, which is why Catholic philosophy (see St Thomas Aquinas for example) can incorporate insights from pagans, Muslims and Jews. Hans Urs von Balthasar took inspiration from an even wider variety of thinkers. I could go on but hopefully I've made my point.
- silverquiet 3y agoI do wonder if I'm just wired differently from everyone else; I was essentially never able to believe in the Catholic stuff no matter what my parents tried. I can say, as someone who acquired a rare childhood disease that causes me pain and disability to this day, that if I do ever get a chance to talk to god, I'm going to call him a dick to his face.
- silent_cal 3y agoAnd many others would do the same as you. But I must say I have far less respect for you than for those who offer their sufferings to God. And there are many of them, too.