(June 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 1:45 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Good. So if I lack a belief in God, it's not because I've 'chosen' to disbelieve in God, it's because I can't believe in God. I can't believe in God until I've become convinced; just like I can't suddenly choose to believe that up is down and down is up, I can't choose to believe in God.
Lacking that belief is a part of me over which I have no control. Yet I will still end up in hell/not entering heaven/being destroyed after death/etc based on that?
I agree completely, and have brought it up on my own in a different thread. I have talked about how I don't think atheists are going to Hell simply for not being able to believe. I think a person who lives a life of virtue will go to Heaven. :-)
Is there anything I said that made you think I believed differently?
I'm happy you think so, but what does Catholic doctrine state will happen to atheists?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson