RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 12, 2016 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2016 at 9:46 pm by Balaco.)
(December 12, 2016 at 2:04 pm)Luckie Wrote: Balaco, from what I can tell, you're more interested in the theological side to "why you should become am atheist", and a rather superficial one at that. If I were you, I'd be less interested in what someone says online about your beliefs and more concerned with the facts. Did you ever get a chance to view the links I gave you?
I've only had time to skim through them a bit and was planning on getting back to them eventually. I've been swamped with a lot of things lately, so I'm not able to spend too much time in my sessions online questioning the faith. Over the past few days I've mainly been focusing on researching and responding to forum posts to get perspective from both sides...though I know I need to supplement this with facts.
(December 12, 2016 at 3:37 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'm also not sure if you've considered why you'd want to be part of a religion at all, even if it is "true". One doesn't follow logically from the other, although in reality it almost always does.
If Catholicism for example turns out to be the "correct" faith (or if it simply has the most accurate teachings out of all religions), meaning that we as humans are supposed to love and worship God, then I would want to make sure I'm fulfilling that. Not only to avoid Hell, but to genuinely love God and genuinely fulfill the lifestyle that we would "have" to live.
