(August 29, 2015 at 4:06 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 3:25 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If you think that I have missed something, CD, please explain it to me.
In actual fact, the OP charges us with something that is, according to atheist beliefs, not technically possible.
So why the silly thread? (Other than the gratuitous drumbeat of anti-Catholicism, of course.)
What you've missed is the logical consequences of certain beliefs, and the cognitive juggling act required to reconcile them.
Of course we don't believe it - the whole point is to highlight the incoherence of what *you* believe. The whole concept of transubstatiation is fucking bugshit crazy, doubly so when you deny the logical implications and construct these apologetics to shield yourselves from cognitive dissonance.
I realize you're going to handwave all of this away, and if that's what it takes for you to sleep at night, knock yourself out.
Put another way - do you remember that wacky Heaven's Gate cult that offed itself years back? Remember how bizarre their beliefs seemed? Well, they've got nothing on Catholicism.
But hey, keep up with the apologetics - you're doing more for atheism than you realize.
To summarize, all humans are batshit crazy about something.
