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Human rights are "invented" by God, and the United States is the first nation to enumerate in a Constitution, the liberal ideological principles of the rule of law, the separation of powers, a constitution, and the recognition of universal human rights in law. So while history shows that the...

He's also the One Who wrote the story in the rocks, instead of words and glyphs, it's fossils and sedimentary layers, scars and gashes, left by "comets" and "meteor impacts". That story is a fantasy, it's obviously incredible, full of ridiculously long-odds propositions that nonetheless win...

Hermaphrodites are literally non-binary. When non-hermaphrodites call themselves non-binary, I take offense for hermaphrodites. Non-hermaphrodites who call themselves non-binary, or feel that they should be the opposite sex, treat the real plight of real hermaphrodites, as a joke, and they...

It's not my "litmus", this is from the Catechism of the Church. And I'm not limiting this to just believing in the Resurrection, although that is absolutely necessary. You must "believe in" Christ, call Him 'Lord', know that He is the only begotten Son of God, that He is God Himself, the...

Caino said the Resurrection of Christ is nonfiction. I have not seen where Caino calls Him 'Lord' though. Do YOU really have so little discernment that you believe that Jesus Christ did not ensure that His memory would never pass from the earth until He comes again? Mass is a memorial service...

Spare me. You can be saved by believing in Jesus. But Jesus wants you to receive Him in the Eucharist too. It's not one or the other, it's both. That does sound inconsistent with belief in Christ. But I haven't witnessed Caino doing that. And we're not conversing with the Urantia book...

How can you possibly disagree with what you snipped from my post? Substitute "Caino" for literally any other name---how can you disagree with that?

The 20th century philosopher L. Wittgenstein, near the end of his life---I mean really near, like within weeks of his demise---tackled the matter of certainty. He never said the following, but it clicked together for me as I read this short book, against the backdrop of everything else he had...

@Caino is an authentic Christian if Caino believes in Christ and in His Resurrection. Caino has already agreed that the Resurrection really happened. By hook or by crook if Caino believes in Christ, then Caino is an authentic Christian, just as I believe that you are, and that I am. There is...

That just sounds like yet another Noncatholic Christian tradition to me. You all are "an attack upon" the Church. There's the actual Christian faith, the one taught by Christ and His Apostles, the one passed down through the ages by the men holding the office specifically instituted to...

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@Caino is one of many here on TOL who "do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety" (838), but who nonetheless professes to believe in Christ, and in His Resurrection. Nobody can formally convert to the Catholic faith without confessing our entire Creed, but anybody can come to Mass. No...

1257 ...Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament.... God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments. 1260 Every man who is ignorant of the...

Demonstrate your assertion from the Catechism then. Because you appear to be contradicting its clear words.

Uh huh. Muslims are welcome at Mass, just as is everybody. Everybody can attend Mass. You can't receive Communion is all, until and unless you convert (or in your case, re-convert through the sacrament of Reconciliation), but you can witness the Mass, and participate, or not...

What does that mean.

Prove, it.

Pope St. John Paul II's Catechism is freely available on the internet and can be had in mass market edition print for 15 USD, and you don't know anything that isn't in that.

Catholicism believes that all who believe in Christ, that He is risen from the dead and the Son of God, are Christians. You're not Catholic, so you would not have any reason to know this. @Caino you are generally welcome at any Catholic Mass (although Advent Masses and Christmas Mass might...

Do you mean by this that you believe in His Resurrection? I accept all who believe in Christ as my fellow Christian, even if separated, and only imperfectly united, as this condition is only temporary and not eternal.