Papal infallibilitie

[Wendell_Wagner]

There are many Catholics who think that infallibility was a mistake. There’s a new book by Garry Wills (my favorite political writer), who’s a devout Catholic, which criticizes infallibility and several other Catholic doctrines. The book is call Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, and chapter 16 is a good explanation of how the doctrine of infallibility came about.

[bibliophage]

Murray Gell-Mann infallible? Au contraire!

On a camping trip in Mexico years ago, Zachariasen recalls, Gell-Mann decided to check his car’s oil; he asked to borrow a dipstick. Told his car had its own dipstick, Gell-Mann went off to have a look. He decided to add some oil. Moments later, Zachariasen discovered that Gell-Mann had removed the car’s air filter and was about to pour a quart of oil straight into the carburetor – something most drivers know would ruin the engine. He was stopped in the nick of time.
“He doesn’t like to admit his ignorance,” Zachariasen explains. Gell-Mann is quite convinced that he knows everything, but there are a few things, apparently, he doesn’t know.

source:
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994x.html

[Liberal]

…declaring the ability to speak infallibly (neat trick, that one, eh?)

No different really than the trick used in logic, declaring that reason is a valid epistemology. Why? Well, it’s only reasonable.

[2sense]

So in order to believe it one merely has to abandon logic?

[sub]Go ahead, tell me I’m right for a change. I dare you. ;)[/sub]

[2sense]

I followed ruadh’s advice in this thread and forgot this wasn’t the original thread.
I was in such a hurry to be clever that I quickly leaped to the reply screen to be able to post under Lib.

Sorry about bumping the thread.

:: slinks away in shame ::