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Originally Posted by Milesian
"When such a critic says, for instance, that faith kept the world in darkness until doubt led to enlightenment, he is himself taking things on faith, things that he has never been sufficiently enlightened to doubt. That exceedingly crude simplification of human history is what he has been taught, and he believes it because he has been taught. I do not blame him for that; I merely remark that he is an unconscious example of everything that he reviles."
"The other day a well-known writer, otherwise quite well-informed, said that the Catholic Church is always the enemy of new ideas. It probably did not occur to him that his own remark was not exactly in the nature of a new idea. It is one of the notions that Catholics have to be continually refuting, because it is such a very old idea. Indeed, those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter of fact, a real study of history will show it to be curiously contrary to the fact. In so far as the ideas really are ideas, and in so far as any such ideas can be new, Catholics have continually suffered through supporting them when they were really new; when they were much too new to find any other support. The Catholic was not only first in the field but alone in the field; and there was as yet nobody to understand what he had found there."
G.K. Chesterton
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Would you please elaborate on that, Mr.Chesterton
You whine about being persecuted because of your 'new ideas', and whine about others' oversimplification of history, but you do the same oversimplification yourself.
So, Mr.Chesterton, what were these New Ideas of the Catholic church ?
Why be so vague about it? What lasting good have these ideas brought unto Europe? Who oversimplified history, and in what way?
Mr. Chesterton, from this, and your previous statements, I gather that you'd say anything to support your church. While I find nothing wrong with supporting your loved ones, I do find your character to be questionable.
