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Within a week he was back at it. Kirk and Studly had received their new (constantly locked) door, but Lippert has already tired of Kung-fu. Wishing to spend some time with his buddies he crawled out onto a six-inch ledge. 40 feet above a concrete landing and tapped on their window. Fearing more for their own lives than for Lippert's. Kirk and Studly refused to let him in. They paid for this later...
Despite all of the objections that have been raised against him, Kung has remained a staunch defender of Christianity. The Church, however, does not think much of his approach. The Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his questioning of the infallibility of the Church. Indeed, in Does God Exist? Kung questions and then denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus...
...Kung honestly believe that by showing us what he arrogantly considers the "disastrous consequences" of other religions, he will convince us of the righteous claim of the Christian God? Are the consequences of the cult of the cow any more disastrous than the consequences of Christian Crusader zeal? This can hardly be a "rational" proof for the existence...
...Church, claiming that its teachings cannot be altered to satisfy the whims of any one generation, has lost the services of its great apologist. It may not have had any choice. For Kung writes that one does not have to believe all that the Church teaches to be a good Catholic. But where does one draw the line? If Church pronouncements are not sacred, what about the Bible? Kung also dispenses with Adam and Eve, the parting of the Red Sea, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, and the acts of the apostles. But if all of these...
...rational to believe in Christ, we must come back to the question Kung raises but never answers: is it rational to believe that God exists...