"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
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Peter explained what happens at baptism when he said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38). But he did not restrict this teaching to adults. He added, "For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him" (2:39)
Catholicism permits a view of life that sees mystery and wonder in all things, which Protestantism does not easily allow.
I feel about Catholicism as G.K. Chesterton did — that it encourages an exuberance, a joy about the gift of life.
What I saw served to dispel my democratic illusions, to break the idol I had worshipped, and shook to its foundation my belief in the divinity of the people, or in their will as the expression of eternal justice. I saw that they could easily be duped, easily made victims of the designing, and carried away by own irresistible passion in the wrong as easily as in the right . . . .I ceased henceforth to believe in democracy.
(Works, XVIII, 224)
This, therefore, is, in conclusion, my reason for accepting the religion and not merely the scattered and secular truths out of the religion. I do it because the [Catholic Church] has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing. All other philosophies say the things that plainly seem to be true; only this philosophy has again and again said the thing that does not seem to be true, but is true. Alone of all creeds it is convincing where it is not attractive; it turns out to be right, like my father in the garden."
So I accused Hitchens of special pleading i.e., employing a double standard or claiming omniscient insight into a topic and thereby exempting oneself from the normal rules of evidence or logic.
The odd thing about Freethinkers, whether Unitarians or not, is that their name suggests originality in thought, but no one is more predictable than a Freethinker. Maybe it's because atheism is so boring--and therefore atheists are so boring.
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