The first part of our serialisation of Fr Noël Barbara's 'Fortes in Fide' includes an open letter from four early pioneers of the post-Vatican II period.
The irony here is that the skeptic's axiom, "I can doubt", is the only statement that cannot be doubted (I cannot doubt that I can doubt), and therefore the only possible certain premise, very similar to "cogito ergo sum", I think therefore I am. From this premise, we can be certain of all that it implies ("I" or identity -- can't change, etc. "can" or will, etc., "doubt" or rationality, etc.). And, of course, faith is the other path to certainty -- that is, we cannot doubt what we have faith in. The modernists are simply without faith, and doubt everything, even their own rationality, at which point they are literally insane, and cannot perceive truth.
And so I believe.
Hysterics.
The two guys on the left of the image have the same look on their faces as I do when anyone says "New Springtime".
The irony here is that the skeptic's axiom, "I can doubt", is the only statement that cannot be doubted (I cannot doubt that I can doubt), and therefore the only possible certain premise, very similar to "cogito ergo sum", I think therefore I am. From this premise, we can be certain of all that it implies ("I" or identity -- can't change, etc. "can" or will, etc., "doubt" or rationality, etc.). And, of course, faith is the other path to certainty -- that is, we cannot doubt what we have faith in. The modernists are simply without faith, and doubt everything, even their own rationality, at which point they are literally insane, and cannot perceive truth.