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Ask an ex-Catholic
#31
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
(May 16, 2015 at 6:52 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Sadly the catholic faith has no answers. They just pretend that they do. Just like any other religion.

It would depend on the question.

Do you have one in mind?
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#32
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
Well, why should the godless care about the intricacies of this particular version of deity? It is great for you. No problem. Are you seriously trying to win converts? (I assume not but then why are you talking catholicism up?)
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#33
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(May 17, 2015 at 12:25 am)whateverist Wrote: Well, why should the godless care about the intricacies of this particular version of deity?  It is great for you.  No problem.  Are you seriously trying to win converts?  (I assume not but then why are you talking catholicism up?)

Isn't this the Christianity subforum? Isn't this a thread related to Catholicism?

What else are we supposed to be discussing here?  Huh
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#34
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
Fair enough though I suppose some fundies might want to argue whether you are truly a branch of xtianity. (Not me, you are clearly birds of a feather.)
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#35
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I am going to believe the ex Catholic over the one who has an agenda.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#36
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
(May 16, 2015 at 6:52 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Sadly the catholic faith has no answers. They just pretend that they do. Just like any other religion.

Nonsense.  They have a whole book of .. nonsense.
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#37
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
If they could re write the bible today and remove all the discrepancies, it would still make absolutely no sense.
The whole concept is flawed from the beginning.

If it wasn't for the woo, who would buy into it?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#38
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
(May 16, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(May 15, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Aroura Wrote: Because I came to my senses.

I went to a private Catholic school for 7 years, and was quite heavily indoctrinated, so it was an uphill climb. Fortunately, my family also loves science and taught me critical thinking skills, so by my teens I was questioning heavily.  By my 20's I'd left the RCC, by my 30's I'd left all supernatural nonsense behind.

Aroura-

You've had an elementary school -level education in the Catholic faith, and in your teens, like most kids that age, you started asking questions for which (sadly) no one provided answers. Continuing that trajectory into your 20's and 30's, you now reject all "supernatural nonsense".

First, have you done any reading of Catholic theology since then?

Second, based on the experience you've described, how well would you say that you understand Catholic theology?

Third, are your parents/family members still Catholic?

No, everyone I know also dropped their belief in the Catholic nonsense (except one childhood friend who also thinks her childs food allergy autism was caused by a vaccine...and she spent 2 years in a psychiatric ward, really, so she's not a great one to go by), even my mother dropped it, though she still believes in God, just not the catholic version anymore.

I understood Catholic theology well enough to know it makes no sense of the real world, is obviously inspired by man and not a "god", whatever that even is, and yes, I've read more about religion since my deconversion than before it, including Catholic "dogma".

I'm very sorry you have been so thoroughly brainwashed, but my mind is open and I know I could be wrong, so I'm always looking for more and better information about the world around me.  I just learned a long time ago that ANY religion wasn't the place to find it.  still, I study other religions. I'm currently researching eastern religions with my daughter to help her understand all the differing belief systems in the world.

So stuff your "closed minded" crap you mentioned in another thread.

Best of luck to you in life, though. Smile
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” 
― Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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#39
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
(May 18, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Aroura Wrote:
(May 16, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Aroura-

You've had an elementary school -level education in the Catholic faith, and in your teens, like most kids that age, you started asking questions for which (sadly) no one provided answers. Continuing that trajectory into your 20's and 30's, you now reject all "supernatural nonsense".

First, have you done any reading of Catholic theology since then?

Second, based on the experience you've described, how well would you say that you understand Catholic theology?

Third, are your parents/family members still Catholic?

No, everyone I know also dropped their belief in the Catholic nonsense (except one childhood friend who also thinks her childs food allergy autism was caused by a vaccine...and she spent 2 years in a psychiatric ward, really, so she's not a great one to go by), even my mother dropped it, though she still believes in God, just not the catholic version anymore.

I understood Catholic theology well enough to know it makes no sense of the real world, is obviously inspired by man and not a "god", whatever that even is, and yes, I've read more about religion since my deconversion than before it, including Catholic "dogma".

I'm very sorry you have been so thoroughly brainwashed, but my mind is open and I know I could be wrong, so I'm always looking for more and better information about the world around me.  I just learned a long time ago that ANY religion wasn't the place to find it.  still, I study other religions. I'm currently researching eastern religions with my daughter to help her understand all the differing belief systems in the world.

So stuff your "closed minded" crap you mentioned in another thread.

Best of luck to you in life, though. Smile

Could you give an example of how Catholic theology does not make sense of the real world?

And as you are looking for "better information about the world" around you, are you also finding information about the next world...the one you will face after you die? 

What has your search turned up so far?
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#40
RE: Ask an ex-Catholic
Transubstantiation. Really, Catholicism is batshit crazy.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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