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Originally Posted by Phage0070
The Pope makes an interesting argument here, which has some interesting consequences to the original topic. Basically what he seems to be saying is that the widespread concept of rational thinking arose in Western society and so is of exclusively Christian origin. He goes on to say that it is important for Christians to maintain that reality is the way it is for a reason, rather than reason being a byproduct of existence. Thus, he concludes that Christians should be open to rational thought.
From this we can deduce the following: Not only should a Catholic be open to the reasonable explanations provided by evolutionary science but they should base their entire belief system on reason. In my view the Pope is basically shooting the Catholic faith in the foot because faith is, by definition, unreasonable. Thoughts?
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Rational thinking exclusively Christian origin? humph. What about the Greeks? Or the Egyptians? Or any other myriad ancient cultures that predate Christianity?