Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

by Trent Horn

Even people who ignore religion think they’re right that religion should be ignored. They also think that those people who tell them they should convert are wrong. This isn’t a sign of arrogance; it’s a sign of a genuine desire to find the truth.

As a Catholic I don’t claim that every other religion is 100 percent wrong. Starting with the most basic questions about the world (which means they deal with objective truths), I try to see which religion best answers my questions: Is there a God? What can we know about God from reason? Did God ever reveal himself to man? Which religion has the best historical claim to being the recipient of God’s revelation? Does that religion still exist today?

For example, science can tell us how the world is, but it can’t tell us how the world ought to be. Science gave us airplanes and medicine, but it also gave us atomic bombs and nerve gas. Science can’t show us what is good or evil because it is just a tool that can be used for either good or evil. We need other thought tools, like philosophy and personal experience, in order to understand truths about the world that science cannot discover—including truths related to who or what created the world.