'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.



Monday, January 18, 2010

on certainty 239


239.  I believe that every human being has two parents; but Catholics only believe that Jesus had a human mother. And other people might believe that there are human beings with no parents, and give no credence at all to the contrary evidence. Catholics believe as well that in certain circumstances a wafer completely changes its nature, and at the same time that all evidence proves the contrary. And so if Moore said “I know that this is wine and not blood”, Catholics would contradict him.



in so far as Moore and the Catholics make claims of certainty –

they are both barking up the wrong tree


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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