Catholic and Enjoying It!
Catholics have faith in Jesus Christ. Skeptics claim to honor only “reason and evidence” while in fact having faith in materialism and the thesis that everything is explicable in terms of time, space, matter and energy whirling through their mindless pace. They are actively hostile to the possibility of agencies outside the material universe doing things to interfere here and will accept anything as fact (being constrained by their creed to do so) rather than consider the possibility that something supernatural could occur. Of course, this means that when you don’t actually have evidence to support your dogmatic act of faith in materialism, you simply raise your voice and shout your dogma.
Case in point: some guy without the slightest bit of actual hard evidence claims to know for sure what caused St. Francis stigmata. He doesn’t know a damn thing, of course. But it’s a guess that sounds nifty to a materialist and so the act of faith is made and called “relying on reason and evidence”. The method here is explicated soundly by Mr. Enlightenment in C.S. Lewis’ Pilgrim’s Regress:
Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact.
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