Catholics Come Home

"Catholics Come Home" is making dubious, and even disingenuous, claims in a desperate attempt to draw members back to the Church.

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• Catholicism
• Religion
• Faith
• Vatican
• Christianity
• Lies
• Misleading
• Science
• Belief
• Jesus
• Roger
• Bacon
• Aristotle
• Galileo
• Superstition
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• Medieval
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• Inquisition
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[jspencer733]

Are you a Catholic?  If not, then why do you bother with this? I am tired of people who spend their time attacking other peoples faith rather than promoting their own. If your belief system is superior to others, then why not spend your time proselytizing? Instead of trying to tear down the beliefs of others.

[diagoras54]

@jspencer733 At what point did I attack the Catholic faith itself? This is targeted specifically at the "Catholics Come Home" ad and the blatant lies it contains. I hardly think poking holes in propaganda counts as tearing down beliefs.

[MsCampobasso]

You can try and bash the Church all you want, but Christ said "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".......now go lick your wounds.

[diagoras54]

@MsCampobasso Oh no, I'm so wounded! A passage from the Bible about a fictional place has truly done me in. Evidently you and every other Catholic is either deaf, or didn't bother watching the video; you simply commented on it as soon as you read the title. At what point did I say that this is about the Church? It's about the organization leading the advertising campaign, and how misleading they are.

[pranays]

@amaqula They did

Many of the Ancient cultures had everything from Astronomy, chemistry, biology and many other science and used it to create many of the things we still use today like cloths, surgery, antibiotics, farming, plumbing hydraulics, sewage systems, the wheel, wootz steal, bronze, cranes, the arch, water fountains..... The list goes on and on.

All long before your false religion. Maybe you should read a book other than the bible.

[peipappy1]

@diagoras54 We heard your comments. You say the "organization" were making false claims about the Catholic Church and yet continued on to slander the Church history with false claims of your own. We know our Church history and we live it precepts. We also know slander and retoric when we see it. As you tried to pointed out in this video, It is disingenuous to hide behind objectiviey when you have an agenda.

[peipappy1]

Nevertheless, as God commands we continue to pray for those who persecute God and His Church.

[peipappy1]

You are just as guilty here of being disingenious and making dubious claims as you say the Catholics Come Home commercials are. All you are doing with this video is distorting bits and peices of history to suit your world view. Shame. When you and the people who believe in this retoric give to humanity as much good as the Catholic Church has given, then we might listen. Until then you are just another lonely voice in the wilderness of delusion.

[jprsdbfuture]

@diagoras54@diagoras54 continuation: It is just discouraging that people who do not believe in God would always dwell on the shortcomings of any religion to feed their own ideology (Atheism). i say it once again, The Catholic Church isn't a perfect religion. but despite its dark past, isn't it worth wondering why it has still stood firm after 2000 years? i know you'll not agree with me, but i think there really is Someone who's been around to protect the Church and those who believe in it. ^_^

[jprsdbfuture]

@diagoras54 hi. actually, the commercial is not misleading. this is due to the fact that what has been said in the commercial are all based on things that the Church has been and is still doing until this day... there may have been dark sides to the History of the Church like what happened to Galileo Galilei in the study of science (and the Church acknowledges the error). however, it doesn't mean that the Church isn't credible to say that they still are giving more opportunities for education.

[jrobbinz1]

Ok, I would just like to say the that I agree that catholics come home has the sole intention of drawing in more members to the church, and maybe that it is out of desperation. However, they aren't trying to mislead people. To say it has nothing to do with how Catholicism is theologically superior to any other religion is a lie. The most important line in the commercial is that jesus laid the foundation for our church. That is the number one reason why people continue to stick with catholicism.

[tolkien1138]

@AspiringPotato "Real science" would mean that it meets *scientific* standards (e.g. the data has been properly collected, the conclusion doesn't overreach what has been demonstrated, etc.). To declare it false on the basis of faith requires a rejection of the scientific method itself and resorts to the fideism I have been opposing since the start of this conversation. That would be an example of a false faith.

[AspiringPotato]

@tolkien1138

You seem to have absolutely no doubt in your faith. It is good to have a little bit of healthy doubt. I am an agnostic atheist; I am open to all possibilities but also ruthlessly critical of them.

Can you see the problems that could arise from a group of, say, Sunni Muslims claiming that science that contradicts their faith is not real science, since their faith is the only true faith, no doubt about.