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A History of the Catholic Church, by Piers Paul Read
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The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theology, by Catholic philosopher Kenneth W. Kemp, charts the recent history and arguments that brought about this peculiar paradigm, in which many in the West came to view science and religion as diametrically opposed. As Kemp skillfully argues, much of this conflict has more to do with scientists and the faithful overstepping their respective authority or expertise, by believing that science (or the Bible) answer questions they are not capable of answering. He writes:
[T]he ideas of creation and evolution are answers to fundamentally different questions. The doctrine of creation offers an account of the very existence of the world, of its dependence for that existence on God. Theories of evolution, by contrast, explain not the existence of the world, but how it got to be the way it is.
“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”.
This commandment may be the most frequently broken by people who claim to be committed Christians. To call someone “pedophile” because they say you should wear a mask or because an unidentified internet board tells you to…IS bearing false witness. So is making demonstrably false claims.
“This election was NOT stolen”, writes Hunn. “To give those opinions a microphone is to bear false witness. To stay silent in the face of a lie is to bear false witness”.
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Do you know why lying, especially about a person, was considered such an egregious act in olden times? Why did people in year past care SO MUCH what people said about them? Until very, very recently and in MOST cultures of the world, bearing false witness was considered not just AS BAD AS physically assaulting them. It was considered worse. In times past, a man’s character and reputation was the single most important thing in li