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I'm replying to a comment about the Catholic/Christian God...

In his myths he has no problem actively interfering with man. The great flood story itself is a giant logical paradox.

God is perfect. God is all knowing.

Yet God creates a world so screwed up he has to reset it.

What free will does every human who's not Noah have ?

Revalations heavily implies that one day God will get sick of this. Too much free will or something.

Honestly everyone has a right to whatever myths get them through the day. The issue becomes when your myth infringe on the rights of others or are used to persecute. As in, your magic book has a few dietary restrictions, cool.

Your magic book calls certain people abominations, or suggest they should have less rights, not cool.

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I am not too familiar with Catholicism.

But all major religions have multiple strands, and like others, Catholicism also has one or more mystic strands as well. Mystic strands of different religions are thinking man's version of the religion and actually closer to each other that you would guess from the surface level understanding of the religion.

Probably you can find people who believe what you are saying. People believe in strange things.

But if you want to have an intellectually honest discussion about this, you should first try to understand clearly the best possible arguments of the thing you are critisizing.

That is why I asked whether you are interested in understanding the religious point of view. What you are presenting is kind of a straw man version of Catholicism, and I imagine on site like this you will have hard time finding anybody willing to argue about that.

Note also that I have not anywhere said anything about what I believe. I have explained to you a kind of short version what is my understanding of the synthesis of Christian mystical traditions.

Noah's Ark is fundamentally impossible according to almost all science.

Yet you have people who are still looking for it.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/researchers-find-compelling-e...

If pointing out the Bible has a bunch of basic logical issues is a straw man argument, it's a darn good one.

You can't prove religion. It's, by definition infalsable.

The intellectual dishonesty starts when someone comes and tries to post proof of Catholicism ,God or whatever.

What is this, r/atheism from 2014?

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