I presume your experience is limited to the parochial world of American Evangelical Christianity, or perhaps anecdotal, informed by your experience with intellectually unsophisticated people. Dawkins and his ilk used to love to pick on these poor people, because it’s so easy, even for a philosophical and theological rube like Dawkins.
But you are certainly not describing the intellectual muscle and heft of the Catholic tradition. You don’t stand a chance.
Materialists, by contrast, either never realize the incoherence of their naive position, or double down, consigning themselves to ever greater absurdities (yes, I am looking at you, eliminativism).
Of course, the burden of proof is on the person claiming there is dissonance. He must a) define what he means by dissonance, and b) show that this tradition is characterized by it.
We didn't get that.
Instead, we got a downvote. So much more intellectual maturity and integrity.
Judging by their creeds it's believing that Easter really happened, and that the highest being is a composition that must be explained in hard to understand greek ontological terms.
Honestly, it would be weird if a supream being DIDN'T have to be explained in difficult to understand, abstract terms. Heck, look at medicine, human's are explained using difficult to understand Greek terms.
But you are certainly not describing the intellectual muscle and heft of the Catholic tradition. You don’t stand a chance.
Materialists, by contrast, either never realize the incoherence of their naive position, or double down, consigning themselves to ever greater absurdities (yes, I am looking at you, eliminativism).