Dialogue of St. Augustine with the skeptics

St. Aug: Christ is the Logos- the wisdom, reason and logic of God that is incarnated and has entered history. He is the fullness of truth that all ancient sages and followers of other religions have been looking for.

Skeptic: But, is Jesus God?

St. Aug: Do you acknowledge that only God can be perfectly good?

Skeptic: Yes, only God would be without sin.

St. Aug: Jesus was perfectly good in every action. The historical record both in the Gospels … [Plus]

Whenever I drove through New Jersey I always smelled this disgusting oder. Now I know what it was.

Comments from FR:

On the small-scale, a person’s religious knowledge is their own problem. Lots of lapsed Catholics, or “not practicing” Catholics, or cultural Catholics that don’t know anything by their own doing. Willful ignorance.

But, on the large-scale, with percentages like that ... sounds like there’s a church problem, too. You’ve got to teach people better than that. If just one of those people is in your church — you’ve got to do a better job.
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