/lit/ - Literature

>>10223457
>i think you're mistaking yourself for a council and don't understand how doctrine works.
What? Stop using rhetoric and explain how I'm wrong. The celebration imagery and practices (trees, gifts, etc) common to Christmas is not doctrinal.

>literally the days of obligation.
Just the formalizing of previous views, not innovation.

I have to head to work. I'll be back.

>>10129494
Well first you should probably familiarize yourself with the worldview. I'd suggest Edward Feser's "Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction" as an introduction to the worldview and response to modern criticisms.

>>10130477
>Christian theology, requires faith in a very specific set of truths on which its logic is built, whereas Buddhist logic strives for internal consistency with as little faith as necessary. I don't see how a Christian could successively win a debate like this. Any suggestions my brothers?

I would be happy to discuss it with them. I think you picture Christian faith all wrong. Catholicism is entirely rationally consistent. There is no leaps of faith about it, though I'm sure some people do this.

When people speak of Christian faith it is a faith in God rather than a faith of God. The worldview is prior to faith beginning and deals with remaining and uniting with the will of God despite hardship and self-interest. And in terms of articles of dogma, that also rests as rationally based as if the church authority is defended as authoritative then its pronouncements are correct.

What is there to debate specifically? To my knowledge, many Buddhist groups do not claim a cosmological view.