atheism and children

[Thumpalumpacus]

Which is it, dammit?!

In seriousness, it's a dilemma for every believer, and that is because every believer cherry-picks doctrine to suit their own morality that they already have internalized. I was not different when I was a believer, and you're no different either, even though your doctrine come from a pope and not a scripture.

Haha, well I believe all the doctrines. What I was saying was that sometimes when I tell people on here what I believe without explicitly saying that it is also what the Church teaches, they accuse me of cherry picking because they don't know that what I'm saying is actually Church teaching. They just assume it's stuff I'm making up on my own, since it's different from other stuff they've heard from more conservative Christians. So now when talking about my beliefs, I'm always sure to include that it is what the Church teaches. But then that just makes people accuse me of blindly following the Church lol.

But the fact is that if Church doctrine is not biblically-based, and you've said as much in previous posts, then you are left with a form of cherry-picking: you are reduced to accepting doctrine concocted by strangers you don't know from Adam's housecat telling you what is right or wrong.

Now, if you've scoped it out thoroughly and agree with each point, more power to you, I s'pose. But I'd be surprised to find a woman who agreed with 100% of anything a man said -- I mean, really surprised.