RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 23, 2016 at 5:22 am
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2016 at 5:24 am by Alex K.)
Welcome to the forum, Balaco!
You want me to try to talk you out of your religion? Well, I suppose the reason why I'm not a Catholic today is that I don't find any even remotely convincing reason to believe theistic, let alone christian, let alone catholic teachings. If you haven't examined your reasons for believing them, that's where you have to start, imo. "I believe X, now disprove it" is never how it works with anything else in life, why should it for your religion? If I showed you my Hamster and told you that it can read minds and will haunt you in the afterlife if you don't give me 10% of your income, would you believe me until you have disproven it? It's impossible to disprove to begin with! What you would do is, you'd say - wait a minute, do I have any reason to believe that this dude's Hamster can haunt my afterlife? Nope? Ok, fuck off, Alex. You see what I mean? Even theists understand the burden of proof in any other situation, they just forget about it when it comes to their religion
Before you throw off the shackles of your religion, the more important thing is that you have things in life you love, be it people, job, hobbies, whatever, and be healthy and happy, and that you don't have things in your life that enslave you. Personally I value truth and critical thinking very highly and want to avoid believing wrong things by all means, and I am convinced that the christian faith is a damaging mind control/thought police thing, but if you don't overdo it, it can be relatively benign. Our resident Catholic Lady will insist that she's doing allright, and who am I to call her a liar. So, stick around, do whatever you want, be happy.
You want me to try to talk you out of your religion? Well, I suppose the reason why I'm not a Catholic today is that I don't find any even remotely convincing reason to believe theistic, let alone christian, let alone catholic teachings. If you haven't examined your reasons for believing them, that's where you have to start, imo. "I believe X, now disprove it" is never how it works with anything else in life, why should it for your religion? If I showed you my Hamster and told you that it can read minds and will haunt you in the afterlife if you don't give me 10% of your income, would you believe me until you have disproven it? It's impossible to disprove to begin with! What you would do is, you'd say - wait a minute, do I have any reason to believe that this dude's Hamster can haunt my afterlife? Nope? Ok, fuck off, Alex. You see what I mean? Even theists understand the burden of proof in any other situation, they just forget about it when it comes to their religion
Before you throw off the shackles of your religion, the more important thing is that you have things in life you love, be it people, job, hobbies, whatever, and be healthy and happy, and that you don't have things in your life that enslave you. Personally I value truth and critical thinking very highly and want to avoid believing wrong things by all means, and I am convinced that the christian faith is a damaging mind control/thought police thing, but if you don't overdo it, it can be relatively benign. Our resident Catholic Lady will insist that she's doing allright, and who am I to call her a liar
. So, stick around, do whatever you want, be happy.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
