re: #107 bratwurst

After what we have all lived through over the past 6 years, it is hard to imagine a trending Twitter topic that could cause my eyes to roll out of my head…but I feel like the outcry over Latin Mass could be the most batshit thing I have ever seen.

I had to go hunt that one down. It’s Michael Knowles who spurred it.

The discovery of the Traditional Latin Mass, which had only recently been reauthorized by Pope Benedict, was among the key factors in my reversion from atheism to the Faith, as it was for countless young Catholics. A devastating decision: https://t.co/ioPnaO7lgY

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) July 16, 2021

No one ever banned the Latin Mass.

Knowles was raised as a Roman Catholic but became an atheist. Until this statement, he said he was convinced to return to the Church by the Ontological Argument. (The Ontological Argument is an a priori argument which says if the universe has organisation or structure, then God must exist to have created that structure. It fails on presupposition of the terms. René Descartes was one of its most famous proponents in modern philosophy, though other philosophers have tried to shade the argument as it comes under sustained attack for the presupposition in its premises.)

So which is it, Mr. Knowles? Did you return to Catholicism from atheism because of the Ontological Argument, or because of the Latin Mass? Since you made the claims in different years, it can’t be both. You must be lying about one.

It is also big news to Christians when a famous person becomes a Christian who wasn’t before; they promote that conversion like they bagged a prize bass.