Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

[Catholic_Lady]

Um, are we reading the same thing? Lol.

Nothing you posted is contradictory to what I've been saying, and I don't understand why you said "they're trying on a polite way to say "They don't go to heaven"", when the thing you posted specifically says we have every reason to be hopeful that they DO.

Bottom line is exactly as I said earlier on in this thread, FM: The Church can't claim to know what happens to the souls of anyone except canonized Saints. But we have every reason to hope that unborn/unbaptized babies do go to Heaven. And it is the general consensus among Catholics that they do. As the CCC says, even in Church funeral services for babies who died before baptism, the priest says "we entrust ______ to the mercy of God."

1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,"64 allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.

-CCC