(October 13, 2017 at 9:39 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 13, 2017 at 9:35 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: I was raised RC. But it doesn't have to be stated in dogma or teachings. Our culture pushes that idea into people.
I didn't say you were lying. Just blind to the effects of your religion.
Speak for yourself then. Maybe you had a different experience but MY "culture" didn't push any idea about ahteists being angry at God. We didn't sit around talking about atheists, and the reason I joined this forum to begin with was because I didn't know much about them.
American culture pushes that idea.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam