I'm not sure why I'm wading into this, but...
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Scott Hebert said:
All right. Let's try this. Can you give me PROOF that Julius Caesar ever existed? All you have are stories about him, and maybe a tomb where somebody (who you claim was Julius Caesar) was buried. If you rely on the stories, then you're just 'parroting' things.
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Yup, which is why historians don't consider unsupported oral traditions to be very reliable sources of information.
I think I could prove the existance of Julius Caesar, but it would be a slow process, which would have to start with ideas of what you would consider proof of the existance of any historical person or event... and it would be slow 'cause I'd have to bone up on the philosophy of history, which I don't know.
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All because I believe what the Catholic Church believes, and has believed for milennia, does not mean that I accept it blindly, or without investigation.
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I'm not sure I'm reading this right... are you saying that you've investigated every claim the Church has made, and found them true to your satisfaction, or that you believe only the ones you've investigated?
And may I assume you're aware that Catholic beliefs have changed over the 1800 or so years that the Church has existed?