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Re:The War Against Pope Francis by foldr on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:10AM (#15600176)
I am not taking a position on whether the arguments are good or bad. But supposing the arguments are bad, sincerely believing something on the basis of a bad argument is not the same as believing it by faith.
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Re:The War Against Pope Francis by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:41AM (#15600314)
Well, unless that argument is built on an assumption that in turn is held to be true on faith, which makes this belief transitively also held to be true on faith.
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Re:The War Against Pope Francis by foldr on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @08:16AM (#15600452)
The arguments that Catholics use typically are not based on such assumptions. See e.g. Aquinas's Five Ways, which are based, more or less, on premises from Aristotelean metaphysics.
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