Friedrich Nietzsche pointed out that there are no facts, only interpretations. A fact is basically as useless as a brick until you use it for something. To use a fact for something is to give it meaning. To give a fact meaning is to engage in the process of interpretation of the fact in relation to other facts or ideas. If we say the sun revolves around the earth, for example, such a claim is meaningless until we understand why such a claim is given any meaning at all. The meaning such a claim was given was that it made sense not simply because that is what appeared to be the case, but because such an interpretation conformed to the claim that earth was the one celestial marble God preferred over all of the other marbles rolling around in the universe.
The Catholic Church made such a claim but never took any responsibility for the fact that it was, in fact, wrong. Catholic Popes decided that they, like the Roman Emperors before them, were given the power of infallibility from God. Point out that the Church demonstrated that it was clearly NOT infallible when it claimed the sun revolved around the earth and any Catholic worth their salt will tell you that the Pope is only infallible when he expresses Church teachings about faith and morals. Explain that the Church required people to have "faith" in the Roman Catholic Church to be saved, and that such a claim was clearly about "faith," and therefore falls within the purview of an "infallible" claim, and the Catholic will seek to torture and execute you for daring to question the dark powers of their Sith lord and savior Jesus H Christ.
To give a fact meaning is to engage in offering a "belief" about the meaning given to the fact. But the Catholic is drunk on the idea that they - AND THEY ALONE! - are INFALLIBLE in the meanings they give to any facts, because the meanings THEY give to facts come from an infallible religion that claims to get all of its ideas about faith and morality straight from God.
But why are Catholics so utterly insane in their claims to be infallible in anything they say about morality, and care not whether anyone suffers because of their ability to engage in a degree of arrogance so extreme it makes the devil looks like a shy little girl? Oh, that's because their interpretations of facts, which is obviously colored by their bias for their beliefs, happens to be infallible, which means their "beliefs" and their faith in how true those beliefs are, which come from that "infallible church," are therefore also completely infallible. And how do they know their own beliefs are infallible and everyone else's beliefs are simply wrong? Oh..they simply "believe," and that gift makes them right, every time they burn witches and crucify Jesus for daring to say... "um, yeah, I have a question about your claims to infallibility..."
And to anyone who dares to doubt the infallibility of every Catholic, every Catholic on the planet screams "CRUCIFY HIM!!"
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