RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 5, 2016 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2016 at 4:54 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 22, 2016 at 6:44 pm)Balaco Wrote: Atheists, why do you reject the idea of God, and why should I? I know that your answers will include "there's no evidence" and all that, but please try to explain.
Yeah I love this one: "Tell me why should I be an atheist but don't use those typical arguments like 'There is no evidence that god exists'"
What, you don't care if God exists or not, you just believe?
OK here's an advice: watch documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" because you will not only learn a lot about your religion, but it will also teach you not to censor yourself when it comes to Catholicism. It will probably make you an atheist.
(December 5, 2016 at 4:06 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The ends don't justify the means is a pretty fundamental Christian belief. A person may have the good intention of ensuring their kid gets to heaven, but that doesn't take away the fact that killing the innocent is still objective wrong.
How can babies go to heaven in Catholic doctrine? We all know you believe that people are born with original sin and that you think baptism is necessary for salvation. So how can fetus or baby go to heaven since they're not baptized? Are you making up your own version of Christianity there?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
