Sola Scriptura

I'm not trying to start a holy war here among my other Christians, but I do believe this satirical meme sums up a good argument for why the Catholic Church does not rely on scripture alone. There were 300 years of tradition, practice, thought, and debate *prior* to the formal compilation of the New Testament (not that the Gospels weren't around).  To believe that a written book, 1100 years before the printing press, created in an era of widespread and acceptable illiteracy, would  be the sole standard for a faith seems like a stretch.