atheism and children

[Catholic_Lady]

Well I just think it's a bit ridiculous when people who barely know me here start accusing me of never having asked myself why and never having contemplated the matter lol. I'm not sure on what grounds anyone here can accuse me of that. 

You already said that, to which I gave above answer

I really don't understand what you mean when you say I "give the impression that rejecting church teaching is out of the question." Why, is it because I agree with all of it? I've been asked whether I would still follow the Church if the Church came out and said rape was ok, or if they came out and changed their teaching on IVF. I've said no to both of those. So I'm not sure how I'm "giving the impression" that I'd blindly follow whatever the Church said without contemplating the matter.



Well, it's either I do that and get accused of blindly following, or I don't do that and get accused of being a cafeteria Christian lol. Now I've had both happen.

You leave me pretty confused. I probably missed the parts where you say that you would stop following the church (or God) if it did teach certain things. It all seems really contradictory to me, at one point you say that the church represemts God's will, then again you don't always follow God, but you're not cherry picking. I'm just confused whether there is any consistent attitude behind all of this.

Lol, damned if I do, damned if I don't, right? 

What I'm saying is that I would stop believing that the Church represents God's will if they completely changed their morality on something, because one of the teachings is that morality doesn't change. So it would lose all credibility with me if they contradicted themselves to that extent and I would stop believing that the Church was divine.