Note on Dr. Scott Hahn (was: A query for the classicists)
bridean bdean@osu-btc.com
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 11:07:58 -0700 (00907369678, 3615167E.5DD34472@osu-btc.com)
> >BRIDEAN
> >Dr. Scott Hahn used to be a protestant fundie. He then went through a
> process where he
> >figured that the Catholic church must either be the whore of Babylon, or
> the true church
> >(because of it's claims). He concluded that what the Catholic church
> claims (such as
> >the eucharist really being God) is reasonable and he eventually became
> Catholic.
> >But he is STILL a fundie despite this conversion experience. So he will
> use the same kinds
> >of spurious arguments that fundies use, only FOR and not against
> Catholicism. I would
> >recommend treating him as any other fundie.
> >
> ACHILLES
> They must be all wrong or all right eh?
>
> This is typical of how "fundamentalist" thinking works and why I feel
> compelled to oppose it - false dualism seems to affect their thinking on
> every, or at very least nearly every issue. A good example of the
> neurosemantic poisoning I have mentioned before.
>
> Achilles
BRIDEAN
Scott Hahn's reasoning regarding this was that it was because of the Catholic
churches claims. Unlike the Baptists who don't claim anything sacreligious if
not true, the Catholics make claims that if not true, would make them sacreligious
and blasphemous. An example would be the real presense in the eucharist.
If there is a real presense, then you are actually saying that a piece of bread
IS GOD. Whereas the Baptist claim that you should wait until a certain age
before you baptize, if not true, is not really a blasphemy against God.
But if you want to read Scott Hahn's own reasoning on this read, "Rome Sweet Home"
which you can probably find either at a Catholic book store, or a book store that
has a good Catholic section.