RE: 10 dead in Paris after attack on Magazine
January 11, 2015 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2015 at 11:10 am by fr0d0.)
(January 11, 2015 at 10:28 am)abaris Wrote: That's pretty uninformed actually. You join the club by being baptised and you leave it by making a formal declaration, not by asking for excommunication. And you can be an atheist and be anything, if you so wish or if you're willing to go through the motions of any given religion.
And what gives you the impression that some catholics are not trinitarian? As opposed to the thousands of protestant denominations, catholics have dogmas and doctrines to follow. So your post is utter nonsense.
I don't claim to know much about Catholicism at all. Formal declaration/ excommunication... there's a difference??
"you can be an atheist and be anything, if you so wish or if you're willing to go through the motions of any given religion." - so are you saying you can be a Christian/ Muslim/ Catholic/ Jewish atheist then? that's what I was saying.
Our recent visitor said that he didn't believe (as an atheist and (he said) Catholic) that his Catholic church believed that Jesus was God. Just a messenger. I'll happily be corrected. I'll go investigate that.
(January 11, 2015 at 10:44 am)Brian37 Wrote: Anyone of any religious label in the world can simply go through the motions that is what is called a "cultural(insert label here)." Those are people who like the traditions but dont literally believe in a god.
But for anyone of any label if you have a god or gods and you pray to them, or if you even are praying to an object like a statue thinking it actually does anything more than make you feel calm or good, and that there is some magic that will give you what you want, that is a superstition.
Just admit you have no evidence for your god. No one will kill you. No one will hate you for being honest with yourself. But don't make excuses for things you have no evidence for.
Superstitious praying by the uninformed. Not anything I recognise as religious. I've seen it going on.
I've always admitted that I have no evidence. To you, many times. It was my first thread on this forum 5 years ago. That position hasn't changed. Pull your head out of your ass Bri. It smells of roses out here.