Ah theologians. When we invented agriculture so that not everyone had to work on gathering food, this enabled some of us to specialize in advanced skills. But theology, wow. What a waste of time. Get those dudes out in the fields.
Unironically the question by witch many faith differs: does God needs abide to the rules of logic or not?
For the Roman Catholic, yes, for Calvinists and a bunch other (ok, many other but I’m not an expert), no.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 month ago
Back in the days they were just philosophers aka scientists.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
There’s a reason the French beheaded the clergy alongside the nobility.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Calvanists the ones that say since god is all powerful there can be no free will/everything is decided don’t apply logic?
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 month ago
That’s the one.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
This isn’t Calvinism. This is prosperity theology, which is it’s own thing.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Answer: whatever causes the person you’re arguing with to throw their hands up and storm off more exasperated…
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 month ago
No, not really, it’s mostly a matter of power.
The Church itself is rooted in the idea that there are autorities on matter of faith and they adopted the Platinical Agostinean idea that faith is empowered by reason. Reason being a valid tool means you have experts that reasoned a lot about religion and people that know less and needs to be taught, ultimately by the Pope.
The “other” side tends to reject authorities, and take the words of the bible as sobjected to personal interpretation or, to an extent, make it into some sort of magical object that the faithfull subjects itself to, without questions. Accepting the contradictions, the illogal parts, are what that kind of faith is about because to question (throught reasoning) God is a Sin.