RE: I just read the catholic cathechism
February 21, 2018 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2018 at 3:22 pm by Fake Messiah.)
LOL What happened to "rebellious teenager"? I mean if this "staying in the closet" will make you waste much time, be surrounded with people you don't want to be and even doing stuff you don't want to do then it's not worth it. You are just going to hate yourself that you wasted so much time of your life being unhappy.
Coming out as an atheist is the process of admitting to earlier dishonesty - admitting you were dishonest with your friends in high school, possibly even admitting you were dishonest with yourself. Here's what you don't realize: No one worth your time actually gives a flying fuck. It seems like they do, but they don't. They don't care if you're an atheist. They care if you're being dishonest with yourself and the people around you. Telling the truth will make you feel so much better, and you'll gain surprising insight into who your real friends and family are. There is no way of knowing how people will respond. But the good people, the ones whose opinion you should care about—they're gonna be fine with it.
Coming out as an atheist is the process of admitting to earlier dishonesty - admitting you were dishonest with your friends in high school, possibly even admitting you were dishonest with yourself. Here's what you don't realize: No one worth your time actually gives a flying fuck. It seems like they do, but they don't. They don't care if you're an atheist. They care if you're being dishonest with yourself and the people around you. Telling the truth will make you feel so much better, and you'll gain surprising insight into who your real friends and family are. There is no way of knowing how people will respond. But the good people, the ones whose opinion you should care about—they're gonna be fine with it.
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"
