(July 10, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 10, 2015 at 10:02 am)Jenny A Wrote: The lack of acceptance of gays part is on my mind right at the moment.
The Catholic Church has been pretty accepting and accomodating given that this can only go so far.
Quote:But also the don't tell lies part. To pretend to believe is to lie.
We don't want you to pretend. When you become a Catholic, it will be because you believe.
Quote:And then there would be promising to indoctrinate my children with a lie.
When it finally clicks that Christianity is not a lie but the greatest truth we can know, then you will WANT your children to know it, too.
Than when why suggest Pascal's Wager which is by definition to lie?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.