(03-12-2022 10:21 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  Catholicism does a really poor job of teaching WHY we should believe in Jesus over any other god, it focuses on rituals and man made traditions and very little on a reasoned defense of the faith.

And yet, for 1000 years or more, the only people engaged in reasoned defenses of the faith were Roman Catholic apologists. Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization does a good job of making that point. A quick summary is at:

https://www.supersummary.com/how-the-iri...n/summary/

Excerpts in part:

"How the Irish Saved Civilization focuses specifically on the period between the collapse of Rome and the start of the Middle Ages – or, the move from the ancient classical to early medieval times. The main thesis, or thread Cahill aims to capture, is how Irish monks are responsible for preserving antiquated texts, and how these efforts are the only way ancient manuscripts survived the period."

There just aren't many of those left now, and the RC's have gotten almost totally away from their tradition. They have kept the words and names, but they don't have the same meanings. As an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian/COE/Anglican, I lament the perhaps even greater departure from tradition into wokeness by my own denomination.