Good exists - a Catholic comments

[The Grand Nudger]

Hi GN, nice to hear from you again. I don’t expect to find an “argument that works”. That’s beyond anyone. Faith is a gift from God. I don’t think anyone is a TMF nor do I know what the forum members believe. Or don’t believe. I do believe many people feel threatened by the idea of a creator God, because it might mean they are accountable for their sins. The Christian God is a God of forgiveness. Catholics can go to confession and our sins are forgiven by God through the agency of the priest. Very few baptised Catholics go to Mass in Australia (my country) or Europe. Less than 10%, it’s heading for 5%. Even less go to confession. Confession is very liberating. 
I digress.

If you don't actually think that we're all a bunch of terrible motherfuckers with secret god beliefs, then you shouldn't say it.  It makes you look like a twat, and it doesn't help your religion or your evangelism in the slightest to imagine as much.  People are leaving your church because it was exactly this shitty, and worse. You know that.

Do I believe in Christ because I “don’t know how the universe was created”. Well, I’ve been a Catholic all my life, and always believed God created the world. Never doubted it. But think a lot about it. Not because of any of the theories against God, but because of the personal implications for me. If you don’t believe in God, that’s complicated too. 
The Christian god is a personal God. I’m on a lifetime journey trying to understand and to obey the “Greatest Commandment” of God given to us by Jesus Christ: to love god with all my heart, soul, strength and mind. Jesus said the second commandment is the same: to love my neighbour as myself. 
You don’t have to be a Christian to obey the second. And many Christians don’t. We all struggle with both of these. 
Cheers Barry

There we have it.  You're saying things that didn't convince you.