@Drich;
Yes, I am very well aware that the RC Church is anything but a bible-based church, being far too
enamored of their church dogma to subscribe to anything else. So yeah, you are right about that much.
I did not go from Catholic to atheist. I spent years looking for some kind of answer that I could live with. I most assuredly was not going to get it from the RC church, so I gave up on that. That is when I started exploring. Tried lots of things looking for answers. Along the way I read the bible. Even joined a Baptist congregation for a while. Thing was, that book is too full of contradictions, repellent Bronze-Age morality, fabrications, and tells of a mean-spirited, cruel, capricious, dictatorial psychopathic god that were he to exist I could never follow anyway. You might sincerely believe that the god of the bible loves us, but I don't see it that way. We're just pawns to him.
So I did find something I could live with. Unbelief. We're all that we've got. Each other. So we might as well be nice to each other, because that is all that there is. Each other and this little world we find ourselves on. We don't need any sky-daddy and never did. Even if we didn't realize it we were getting along just fine without him. So we can manage quite nicely. You Xtians don't give humanity enough credit. All the good stuff sky-daddy gets the credit for, but when things go wrong it's always humanity's fault. Not so. We get both the blame and the credit. Because it's us doing it either way. And we are not doing badly. We may not progress as fast as we'd like, but progress we do. We are better than you guys give us credit for. And we got that way all on our own.
Yes, I am very well aware that the RC Church is anything but a bible-based church, being far too
enamored of their church dogma to subscribe to anything else. So yeah, you are right about that much.
I did not go from Catholic to atheist. I spent years looking for some kind of answer that I could live with. I most assuredly was not going to get it from the RC church, so I gave up on that. That is when I started exploring. Tried lots of things looking for answers. Along the way I read the bible. Even joined a Baptist congregation for a while. Thing was, that book is too full of contradictions, repellent Bronze-Age morality, fabrications, and tells of a mean-spirited, cruel, capricious, dictatorial psychopathic god that were he to exist I could never follow anyway. You might sincerely believe that the god of the bible loves us, but I don't see it that way. We're just pawns to him.
So I did find something I could live with. Unbelief. We're all that we've got. Each other. So we might as well be nice to each other, because that is all that there is. Each other and this little world we find ourselves on. We don't need any sky-daddy and never did. Even if we didn't realize it we were getting along just fine without him. So we can manage quite nicely. You Xtians don't give humanity enough credit. All the good stuff sky-daddy gets the credit for, but when things go wrong it's always humanity's fault. Not so. We get both the blame and the credit. Because it's us doing it either way. And we are not doing badly. We may not progress as fast as we'd like, but progress we do. We are better than you guys give us credit for. And we got that way all on our own.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
