(May 15, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I'm a Catholic. You have questions. Let's get started.
The greatest fear I have is that with enough consent we in this country may return to a theocracy that although brought us out of the fall of the roman empire did much atrocity to the world in the name of God. Do you believe that today if that happened I and other non believers would have much hope for a life in this country?
On that note (for example) abortion is a hot issue in the Catholic world. Why? is it because of Gods words or because killing babies is generaly not a pleasent thought? Personaly and as a medical guy I know that abortion is not a good alternitive to unwanted prego however the circular logic in Catholisism is that abortion is bad but contriceptives are not allowed so you cant have sex unless you want kids and you probably dont want kids untill you are married which satisfies the desires of God (or at least the old Jewish laws which were aimed at controlling women). To me all this seems like control mechenisms diguised in the idea of caring for babies. Do you see what i mean? You might truely be concerned for the unborn but the pope wants nothing more than control of as many people as possible and so uses the emotions of the masses to get what he (the historicly controlling church) wants.
Yet the amount of lives destroyed by the idea that every one MUST be Christian makes me doubt that the church fathers really care about life. You might... but they dont....not historicly.
I'm not discounting the good things the church has done like advancing science and helping the less fortunate although i believe we are capable of doing these things without a god but that is for another disgustion.
I might believe that for maybe 50 years of modern church rule that I wouldn't be outright slain but what about 100 years...200 years? Did you know that somewhere in the book of Corinthians it is written that non believers must be killed and this is said in other places in the bible as well. How long before open season on non catholics would come into law?