(December 30, 2014 at 1:35 am)Lambert Wrote: But sorry sir, I never claimed to be theist. Catholics have the freedom to believe or not to believe, they always did, and I am just one of those. Catholics just do what Catholics do and are never asked what they believe to qualify. I.e. that is what infant baptism is all about.
And of course you can deny theism if your idea of theism includes the existence of a God or gods or anything to do with what we would call God, such as the trinity, that in Catholicism is freely expressed as metaphor to encounter later in life on our own, or not, to say that nobody will ever ask and/or tell you what to do.
And it is not my job as Catholic to convince you of anything. My reason for suggesting that atheism can be just a fear of religion is because in some religions great demands are made of its members, such as tithing, religious obligations and behavior modifications to fit the mold.
Fascinating.
So you're saying your whole church would be surprised at any link with Jesus? Who would you most identify with? Mary? The father? The spirit? The priest?
