Originally Posted by
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Oh, so in your theory, they should bring down the palace with all those Michelangelo's paintings on the walls and roofs, and then what, sell it piece by piece? You're just going to say anything, no matter what argument I give, aren't you?
That's exactly right, any little thinking one do is enough to realise one has no problem being rich, the problem is not helping others. Besides, the priests, bishops, cardinals and pope aren't rich, what they have are the Church's and not theirs particular, once they die, others will use, and so on.
It does, it's described in Genesis as the place the Jews believed they went when they died, to await judgement, that's what Purgatory is.
Yes, it's possible, any forensic doctor (pathologist) can confirm that, in crimes for examples, when doing an autopsy they can reveal if a wound was done post-mortem or not. It has something to do with the blood cells, which instantly start the slow process of healing, and if the body is dead, it doesn't. As for who did it, search Google, it's some famous institute in the USA.
Oh! So you are an neo-atheist, one of those angry kids whom never read Saint Thomas Aquinas and heard a Marxist teacher saying religion is nonsense?
Really foolish of you, as any serious historian can tell you, even atheist ones, the Church has only improved mankind in history, for example, the creation of hospitals (I'm not talking about building it, I'm talking about actually inventing it) and universities, schools, place to study. Another point, as Thomas Woods (Harvard University B.A. Columbia University M.Phil., Ph.D.) proved, there was no such thing as "charity" or "helping others without expecting nothing in return" before Christianity, also paedophilia wasn't seen as something bad, neither was rape and slavery.
Now, why again do you oppose the Church?
And about wealth, it's exactly like I said, use your common sense, do you think that, let's take a secular, not catholic person for neutrality, Bill Gates would go to hell? Him being one of the men who most helped humanity and donates billions of his fortune to charity?
And if that was true, so would King David and lots of prophets go to hell, since God himself awarded them with riches.