The "Conservative Bible Project" ... Dumbest Thing Ever?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Related: The guy who helped start Conservapedia, Andrew Schlafly, was on The Colbert Report recently. He was trying hard to not make Schlafly run off the stage. (Dec. 8th, episode, I believe.)

The graphics stated he was also involved in the Conservative Bible project. Is that correct?

 

[Worm]

Indeed, the Conservative Bible Project is entirely the brainchild of Andrew Schlafly, and is organised by him on Conservapedia.

Here is a link to the nonsense, it's good for a laugh really. The discussion pages are more fun than the content in many cases

 

[tsig]

The pope is only infallible when he explicitly invokes the infallibility, making an official pronouncement ex cathedra. That means he's been on the phone with the Holy Spirit and absolutely that's the truth. Anything else, is just his personal reading of the Bible and opinion. A very educated opinion, mind you, but still just his opinion.

They're actually very careful with what they invoke infallibility about, because it's exactly what it sounds like. Once an infallible pronouncement ex cathedra has been made, it can't even be undone by another pope. You can't use your own infallibility to override a predecessor's infallibility. (Though you can override a previous pope on something that was just his educated opinion.)

It's only been used 7 times total, in 449 AD, 680, 1336, 1653, 1794, 1853 and 1950. And technically only for the last one a formal and official definition and dogma of papal infallibility existed. Though it had been kinda assumed all along that a pope could do that.

So, yes, it's not something the pope does every day. In fact most popes had never been infallible in their whole lives.

Since ex cathedra means "from the chair" the pope pulls that stuff from his butt.

 

[tsig]

I did not know that.

Now guess how the Pope got to be infallible.

spoiler:

A Pope infallibly defined the doctrine of infallibility.

ETA I see Shadron got there first.