Tamer Nashef on Postive Attributes of the Catholic Church

"First, allow me to start this short article with what might be deemed a startling confession: I am not a Catholic, nor am I even a Christian. In fact, I am a secular Muslim and an avid reader of philosophy and history with an unswerving commitment to the unmitigated truth no matter where it is even, nay especially, if it runs counter to commonly held beliefs.

"I have spent the last few years researching the history of Christianity, especially the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, and was shocked to discover that almost everything we had been taught about Catholicism was erroneous and apparently affected by anti-Catholic bias. In contradistinction to what most people both in the West and Middle East think, the Catholic Church and Church Fathers did not suppress science, reason, and knowledge. Quite the opposite, in many cases they even encouraged the acquisition of secular learning and the pursuit of science, and placed a high premium on man's rational faculties. . . ."

In a recent commentary, researcher Tamer Nashef reflected on a number of positive attributes of the Catholic Church, including many of its accomplishments over the centuries (several of which are unknown by a number of people in our time).

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Strange Notions: I'm a Muslim But Here’s Why I Admire the Catholic Church ()

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