(December 26, 2014 at 6:05 pm)whateverist Wrote: I've scanned through this thread and must say I remain unclear what point if any you wish to make. You wonder if there really are any atheists rather than simply theists who choose to sleep in on Sunday. You say Catholicism does not fall under the tent of Christianity. I don't know why you think either of these things or what larger point you may be trying to make.
For what difference it makes to your understanding, I am simply someone who does not subscribe to belief in gods. More than that I find the very concept of gods largely incoherent and ill defined. You may decide for yourself if your current concept of atheism is adequate. Certainly what you decide will have no impact on anything of importance to me.
Of course not, and good for you. I am not trying to convince anyone here to be come Catholic, nor will I ever send an invitation to anyone here.
What you believe is your choice to make and that always has been that way. I am just saying that the word Christianity is a total misnomer and has always been. The -ity does not belong as an end in itself where our mansion or destiny is at, and that can be no greater than an out-house for all I care, but is and remains where we come full circle in life and then know for the first time who we really are.
That is what religion is supposed to be about with no promise made in the here-after other than the intuit knowing when it is time to spin our own cocoon, and that is what tradition is all about.
It is you right to accept what at one time was known as the state or national Religion and you (impersonal) were never forced what to believe and what not to believe.
You can sleep in all you want to and at best they would call you free-loader which is also a normal stage in life as believer, and so is normal in life for believers also. Literature is full of this and nobody is pointing a finger here.
