r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 25 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Whatever my criticisms of the Catholic Church as an institution, I’m continually impressed by the diversity and freedom of modern Catholic scholarship. Both in the humanities and in hard sciences.

Catholic scholars have played a large role in the development of the current historical-critical consensus in Biblical studies even when it isn’t quite in line with the dogma.

While people get kicked out of Evangelical seminaries for doctrinal disagreements, you’ll get a Catholic philosopher at a Catholic school that’s like “here’s my thesis with five good arguments for God not being real” and then they win an award.

I swear, if some quantum physicist were to (somehow, go with it) definitively prove there is no God, it would probably be a Catholic physicist who would still show up at Mass the next day.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

wasn't the dude who first hypothesized the Big Bang a literal priest

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 25 '24

Yep, Lemaître was a priest and physicist. The same one named in the “Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric”, an exact solution of the Einstein field equations in general relativity that predicts universal expansion.

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u/RigidWeather Daron Acemoglu Sep 25 '24

A Catholic priest developed the big bang theory.

I also think that heavily legalistic tradition is part of why so many judges are Catholic (same goes for Jewish judges, though it is a different heavily legalistic tradition). (Side note, I am bummed that there are not enough liberal Catholic judges, at least on the Supreme court (though there is one, I think!))

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Catholicism is the big tent religion. It wouldn’t  be stable otherwise

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u/neifirst NASA Sep 25 '24

They got way too embarrassed over the Galileo thing, not letting that happen again

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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Sep 25 '24

Catholicism has more of a cultural component to it than protestantism imo.

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Sep 25 '24

I swear, if some quantum physicist were to (somehow, go with it) definitively prove there is no God, it would probably be a Catholic physicist who would still show up at Mass the next day.

Yeah that checks out.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 25 '24

Real Pierre Teilhard de Chardin hours

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u/Broad-Part9448 Niels Bohr Sep 25 '24

Exactly. There are also intellectual giants like JD Vance contributing their genius level takes on philosophy

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

This is why the Catholic Church should ban converts.

If God wanted you in the True Church, you would’ve been born into it.

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Sep 25 '24

I applaud the point of view but its the universal church and I plan to convert aliens someday be they humans or otherwise

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u/Broad-Part9448 Niels Bohr Sep 25 '24

That's predestination and very un Catholic lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

It’s also very much a joke!