(August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: As an atheist who has been playing organ for Catholic Mass for the last 25 years . . . (I'm cutting down to ONE Mass in two weeks, and sometime after that I will be FREE!!  FREE!!  BWAhahahah . . . ) (oh where was I?  Oh yeah, Catholics.)  Well . . . I have questioned quite a few Catholic Priests.  Many don't take the Bible literally.  Many don't believe in hell.  (Of course, some still do.)  I asked why, then, Jesus died and rose again, and was told 1) to show his commitment to his ministry, and 2) he may not have actually risen from the dead. They already take a Gospel reading, and preach on "how this can speak to us today" and "how these words can help us reach out to the needy and suffering".  So I think that they will change - - a lot. I think that the idea of literal transubstantiation will go by the wayside, and there will be married priests (I already know two.) and female priests.  I think that it will become more of a weekend social justice club.

-a wonderful re-use of a worn article.  The church could do alot of good if it would stop babbling about god...and shielding rapists. It's an awfully short list, isn't it. It;s almost like they don't give a fuck, can't handle those two things.

Applies to whatever cult the OP has joined as well. :wink:

(August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm)soloowaty Wrote: Well, you're right. I got carried away. What I meant was, that hatred towards religion is not a good thing. [...]

Hatred towards a dog turd stuck to my shoe is not a good thing. Or a bad thing. It's just a natural reaction to shit.

(August 15, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:

(August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm)soloowaty Wrote: Well, you're right. I got carried away. What I meant was, that hatred towards religion is not a good thing. That's all. But I shouldn't be saying that, knowing that I'm new here, I'm sorry!

Nothing personal on my part. Getting mad at internet strangers is my 4th favorite hobby. Now:

NOT A GOOD THING?!

You mean like genitally mutilating children, flying planes into buildings, burning people alive, stoning them to death, oppressing them our telling them that the only defense against a deadly disease they have causes more harm than the disease, causing the otherwise easily preventable death of millions??

Like those not good things?

Exactly like those things, man, hatred makes people do those things, not religion. I can easily imagine atheist man burning church with people in it, because he hates religions. Hope it not offends you.

Yet, in this thread, it's a christian imagining a man burning a church.  That said christian projects his strangeness outward on some other group or manufactured individual is unsurprising, after all...christian.



While you're busy -imagining- atheists who burn churches because they hate religion...I'll simply point you to bombed abortion clinics, and other misc durka worldwide....which -aren't- imagined.

(August 15, 2015 at 6:32 pm)soloowaty Wrote:

(August 15, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Nothing personal on my part. Getting mad at internet strangers is my 4th favorite hobby. Now:

NOT A GOOD THING?!

You mean like genitally mutilating children, flying planes into buildings, burning people alive, stoning them to death, oppressing them our telling them that the only defense against a deadly disease they have causes more harm than the disease, causing the otherwise easily preventable death of millions??

Like those not good things?

Exactly like those things, man, hatred makes people do those things, not religion. I can easily imagine atheist man burning church with people in it, because he hates religions. Hope it not offends you.

Not religion? ._.

Every single thing I listed was caused by religion.

(August 15, 2015 at 6:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yet, in this thread, it's a christian imagining a man burning a church.  That said christian projects his strangeness outward on some other group or manufactured individual is unsurprising, after all...christian.



While you're busy -imagining- atheists who burn churches because they hate religion...I'll simply point you to bombed abortion clinics, and other misc durka worldwide....which -aren't- imagined.

I'm not in a cult, as someone suggested. Not in religious one, not in atheistic one too. I have my own beliefs. And I've seen people doing bad things for many reasons outside religion. 

This thread went to shithole, and its my fault. I was going to discuss some stuff that bugged me, but somehow I went myself vs. the atheism here. Which is funny, as I was an atheist for bigger part of my life. Please continue without me, thank you.

(August 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm)soloowaty Wrote:

(August 15, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: It will disappear into myth like the rest of Christianity.

Its still one of the most popular religions, so I'm afraid this might take a while

Among the elderly, who I'm sorry to be grim but are dying off quite fast.

I was raised "Catholic" and I went to a Catholic school. I grew up around "Catholics" almost exclusively, and let me tell you I don't know any my age (I'm 21) who are still seriously into it. I write it as "Catholics" not without speech marks for a reason...

That's the Catholics btw, yknow, the branch of Christianity that has tended to be the most hardline historically. Ask any British "Anglican/Protestant Christian" under the age of 40 when they last went to church, you'll hear crickets.

That said, I'm not being funny but what is up with the Jamaican/Caribbean Christian preachers in Birmingham city centre lately? There seems to be so many more than there used to be and I can't go there without seeing at least one. There's more Muslims on the Qur'an bash too. All so obnoxious. Nap, have you noticed this or is it just me?

Don't completely go away. Look around a little bit, then start another thread.

(August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm)satan_buttercup Wrote: What I meant was, that hatred towards religion is not a good thing.

Hatred toward delusional people believing in a sky daddy is one thing, they need help, not hate, but hatred toward religion is good. Religion is bad. Religion's sole purpose is control and has nothing to do with salvation for anyone except the leaders and then only for their mortal existence.

Catholicism will be gone in less than ten years.
This is the last pope.
The Vatican will be a heap of rubble, the blood of the saints that she murdered (which has been crying out against it for all these years)
will be vindicated.