lots of people believe in God and they don\u2019t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
these ultra catholics will say<\/em> \u201cthe crazy things i believe are simply what God wants me to have\u201d but is it actually so simple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n i doubt it very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n frankly, the integralists i have spoken to make a big thing of their being \u201cactually consistent\u201d but in practice i find they have mostly shifted (or made extra) all the holes in their thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n i would say the holes are either in some place where the last person who would care to locate them died in 1990 (\u201cyou\u2019ve never debated somebody like me\u201d may be true now maybe but was very much not true between the years of, say, Voltaire and the discovery of the unmarked graves in the Magdalene Laundries) or into some psychological blind spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" lots of people believe in God and they don\u2019t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics these ultra … Continue reading