RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
January 6, 2015 at 10:30 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 10:32 am by Regina.)
I was raised Catholic and no Catholic was "born" it. We go through the baptism to be initiated into it. My parents were never strict Catholics, I was just baptised out of pressure from my Maltese and Irish grandparents, who were far more into it. Unless by "born" it, you mean baptised as a baby before one has a choice?
Anyway, I've never been excommunicated but I still no longer call myself "Catholic". If I've stopped believing in the religion, then I don't see a need to keep calling myself it. My lack of belief in it means I've already left, it invalidates the legitimacy of my identity as "Catholic". I'm struggling to word it clearly but I hope you get my meaning. You can just call yourself "atheist", there's no need for an initiation thing into it like there is with some religions, in fact I'd find it kinda paradoxical if there was.
Anyway, I've never been excommunicated but I still no longer call myself "Catholic". If I've stopped believing in the religion, then I don't see a need to keep calling myself it. My lack of belief in it means I've already left, it invalidates the legitimacy of my identity as "Catholic". I'm struggling to word it clearly but I hope you get my meaning. You can just call yourself "atheist", there's no need for an initiation thing into it like there is with some religions, in fact I'd find it kinda paradoxical if there was.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
