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Hello, recovering Catholic here
#11
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
Welcome aboard. Fascinating to read your story Wink
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#12
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
Strap yourself in. This is the deep end of atheism.


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#13
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I can't get why you're obsessed with ends
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#14
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
cause the beginning is already taken Dunno
Quote:To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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#15
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
I like the way your thread title makes it seem like a disease. Welcome. I think Min will like you.
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#16
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
Catholicism does share many traits with a disease process.
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#17
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
(October 19, 2014 at 8:52 am)DramaQueen Wrote: I can't get why you're obsessed with ends

He's wearing a Freudian slip.

Hi to the new guy! Pull up a theist and help yourself to a slice of baby while it's warm.

By the way, when I read that lovely word "christkind", I did it to the tune of "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (and later Duran Duran). Now you can all have as much fun as me getting it out of your heads.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#18
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
(October 19, 2014 at 8:56 am)Sejanus Wrote: I like the way your thread title makes it seem like a disease. Welcome. I think Min will like you.

Well, it seems like a disease. Imagine a child being brainwashed into feeling guilty about almost everything in life. There's always that allseeing peeping Tom in the background, only waiting to punish you for your transgressions.

It goes even beyond that. Sometimes we were told, that god would take what's dearest to us. So that left me worrying for my family whenever I felt like dissapointing the bastard above.
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#19
RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
The OP even noted eternal punishments too. One little F up and God has designed the universe to reward you when you die with a case of diarrhea where you poop rusty red hot razor blades out your butt for an infinite amount of time.
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RE: Hello, recovering Catholic here
Here's the real injustice in such a universe. All transgressions are punished equally. If I knew, or even suspected, that I was doomed to infinite punishment for - say - having lustful thoughts, what's to stop me from deciding to go out and slaughter as many people as I can manage? After all, hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I'm going for the sheep as well.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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