tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post118626900099955101..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Coffee Cup BrowsingFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-68924839825428401822014-04-11T11:39:19.988-05:002014-04-11T11:39:19.988-05:00I saw a headline about that on a corner of my loca...I saw a headline about that on a corner of my local Google News page and didn't bother to look it up, but that was exactly what I thought. "If it's old, it's true"...how "conservative" secular journalism is when it's convenient, huh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-13170194419518724472014-04-11T11:34:38.117-05:002014-04-11T11:34:38.117-05:00I agree. These arguments also undercut the false n...I agree. These arguments also undercut the false notion that theists are just ignorant bumpkins.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-51939688097860968602014-04-11T11:30:31.575-05:002014-04-11T11:30:31.575-05:00"Proofs" don't bring people to the f..."Proofs" don't bring people to the faith, indeed, but these arguments seem to be a good way to hold self-satisfied neo-atheist's feet to the fire regarding the "logic" and "science" they allegedly profess and lead their rhetoric to a less preposterous way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-64364123482648688012014-04-11T10:26:21.445-05:002014-04-11T10:26:21.445-05:00It never seems to occur to these people that the a...It never seems to occur to these people that the ancients were just as capable of lying as we are today. So you found a scrap a paper that mentions Jesus' wife? Writers in the ancient middle east never lied?Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-32641780576668288862014-04-11T09:11:35.305-05:002014-04-11T09:11:35.305-05:00What this "groundbreaking" piece of pape...What this "groundbreaking" piece of paper from the 8th century that "reveals" what 4 Gospels didn't is that by then Gnosticism in N Africa was grasping for survival, watering down its tenets that women were bad and heterosexual relations and procreation, evil. <br /><br />On the other hand, by then the Coptic Church was already in schism. Moreover, it was probably confronted by Islam, and some of its bishops might be trying to water down Christian orthodoxy to appease its oppressors. <br /><br />The fact remains that there are umpteen documents and witnesses of Jesus' celibacy and the practices in the Church regarding women and marriage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com