RE: Anti gay-marriage atheist??
August 31, 2015 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 4:40 pm by drfuzzy.)
(August 31, 2015 at 4:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 4:25 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: mercy? According to your church, I'm supposed to be celibate all my life, because of something I did not choose for myself, or go to hell, and this is MERCY? I can fall in love, desperately want to be with that one person for the rest of my life, but I can't TOUCH them, because if I do, I'm banned from communion? This is mercy?
No, by "mercy" I meant you wouldn't necessarily go to Hell for it.
"No, by "mercy" I meant you wouldn't necessarily go to Hell for it." If I believed Hell existed, that MIGHT be comforting. You probably mean it that way, and I appreciate that.
I knew I was gay when I was 11 years old. This is not something I chose. The utter, horrible, unfairness of the Church's position -- being disowned by my parents many years ago because of church teachings -- (I learned that my father died 6 months after the funeral. My mother is still alive, I think.) -- these are a few of the dozens of "coffin nails" that helped destroy what little belief in god was left.
And it is one of the benefits of my choice of Atheism. I no longer worry about hell, or about any deity that would send me there.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein