Currently making a rosary made from meteorite beads for my Parish Priest! These beads allow my mind to enter an eternal foreknowledge that only God can know and reminds me that I can’t even come close to comprehending everything.
This sounds familiar. Isn't this the same thing happening today? The gaslighting on religion and people convinced there is a conflict between science and religion. I am begining to doubt all of history I was taught. Hard to believe anything now.
That’s something that I also think needs to be revised in our public perception. We are in a time when Christianity equates to Badness and antiquated ideas. The very ideas of liberalism as expressed by John Stuart Mill are built on Christian presumptions. I’ll be honest I don’t know much about the dark ages, I just kinda know it’s a time after the fall of Rome. If you’ve got any books or resources I’d love to check them out. Even when I was attending a Catholic college, the majority of art students were hostile towards christianity. I’m a Protestant myself, but it seemed like I was interested more in the faith than the cradle Catholics were. As an aside, it seems to me like the entire culture around me is in a dark age of sorts. We’re all comfortable enough materially, but there’s no culture to be seen. It’s like a quiet desperation that we all just live with. I feel like a complete pariah here.
@@prestonowens4594 I am currently reading a book called, How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Wood Jr. But I imagine most books about Catholic history would include something on that era. I agree, we Catholics were not well formed. We have not been good at defending our faith or history. It seems that is changing though.
Don`t fall down the road of doubting everything. Examine and learn to discern. And fight the lie of the conflict between science (or reason more broadly as sometimes comes up) and faith. Practice apologetics to the extent you are able/the Lord is calling you to.
I'm pretty sure there were those that thought the earth was flat and that cited scripture during the medieval period. Here is a passage from Copernicus where he addresses those people in his Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III. 'If perchance there shall be idle talkers, who, though they are ignorant of all mathematical sciences, nevertheless assume the right to pass judgment on these things, and if they should dare to criticise and attack this theory of mine because of some passage of Scripture which they have falsely distorted for their own purpose, I care not at all; I will even despise their judgment as foolish. For it is not unknown that Lactantius, otherwise a famous writer but a poor mathematician, speaks most childishly of the shape of the Earth when he makes fun of those who said that the Earth has the form of a sphere. It should not seem strange then to zealous students, if some such people shall ridicule us also.'
Currently making a rosary made from meteorite beads for my Parish Priest! These beads allow my mind to enter an eternal foreknowledge that only God can know and reminds me that I can’t even come close to comprehending everything.
What?
@@MrPastaTube1yea, what ??
A rosary made from meteorite beads sounds pretty amazing actually
Fantastic as usual from Prof. Principe. This should have 100x the number of views it has.
This sounds familiar. Isn't this the same thing happening today? The gaslighting on religion and people convinced there is a conflict between science and religion. I am begining to doubt all of history I was taught. Hard to believe anything now.
@miriba8608 - All that’s left is Jesus.
Does anyone know the colleague and book on ancient and midieval thinking about the age of the world?
Ivano dal Prete, On the Edge of Eternity
@@nemoneminis5559 wonderful thanks!
Is there a talk on the so called dark ages? Debunking the perseption that people have about nothing happening or advancing during that time.
@miriba8608 - I’m with you. Aquinas 101.
That’s something that I also think needs to be revised in our public perception. We are in a time when Christianity equates to Badness and antiquated ideas. The very ideas of liberalism as expressed by John Stuart Mill are built on Christian presumptions. I’ll be honest I don’t know much about the dark ages, I just kinda know it’s a time after the fall of Rome. If you’ve got any books or resources I’d love to check them out.
Even when I was attending a Catholic college, the majority of art students were hostile towards christianity. I’m a Protestant myself, but it seemed like I was interested more in the faith than the cradle Catholics were. As an aside, it seems to me like the entire culture around me is in a dark age of sorts. We’re all comfortable enough materially, but there’s no culture to be seen. It’s like a quiet desperation that we all just live with. I feel like a complete pariah here.
@@prestonowens4594 I am currently reading a book called, How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Wood Jr. But I imagine most books about Catholic history would include something on that era.
I agree, we Catholics were not well formed. We have not been good at defending our faith or history. It seems that is changing though.
Don`t fall down the road of doubting everything. Examine and learn to discern. And fight the lie of the conflict between science (or reason more broadly as sometimes comes up) and faith.
Practice apologetics to the extent you are able/the Lord is calling you to.
I'm pretty sure there were those that thought the earth was flat and that cited scripture during the medieval period. Here is a passage from Copernicus where he addresses those people in his Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III.
'If perchance there shall be idle talkers, who, though they are ignorant of all mathematical sciences, nevertheless assume the right to pass judgment on these
things, and if they should dare to criticise and attack this theory of mine because of some
passage of Scripture which they have falsely distorted for their own purpose, I care not at
all; I will even despise their judgment as foolish. For it is not unknown that Lactantius,
otherwise a famous writer but a poor mathematician, speaks most childishly of the shape
of the Earth when he makes fun of those who said that the Earth has the form of a sphere.
It should not seem strange then to zealous students, if some such people shall ridicule us
also.'
Good talk till about 35:00. Plunders about evolution, design argument, young earth etc. Philosophical pretensions.
Pretensions in what sense?