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<\/a><\/div>\n\u201cWhy should we suffer? Why should we die?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ah, the eternal question. And in this chapter \u201cThe Albigensian Attack<\/a>\u201c, Belloc gets to the heart of the matter of why the Incarnation came about, Christianity was founded, and why the Catholic Church exists. Because as we know, we are mere human beings. We die. And since the beginning, mankind has wanted to know \u201cwhy?\u201d Various ways out of the torturing enigma have been proposed. The simplest and basest is not to face it at all\u2026another way less base, but equally contemptible intellectually, is to say there is no problem because we are all part of a meaningless dead thing with no creative God behind it\u2026 another nobler way, which was the favourite way of the high pagan civilization from which we sprang, the way of the great Romans and the great Greeks, is the way of Stoicism. This might vulgarly be termed \u201cThe philosophy of grin-and-bear-it\u201d\u2026 another way is the profound but despairing way of Asia, of which the greatest example is Buddhism: the philosophy which calls the individual an illusion, bids us get rid of the desire for immortality and look forward to being merged in the impersonal life of the universe. What the Catholic solution is we all know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Or hopefully you do. If you didn\u2019t before reading this chapter, you know now. A lot of ground is covered here. Heck, you might want to let your children read this chapter so they will understand what all the fuss is about regarding being a practicing Catholic. What\u2019s the deal? Well,<\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this chapter, Belloc synthesizes the ideas that we have formed in an attempt to come to terms with this truth. He touches on Manicheanism, Stoicism, and heck, even Buddism. For example he writes,<\/p>\n