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New here, Irish Ex-catholic
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New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 20, 2013 at 10:31 pm
...also ex-christian, ex-agnostic, ex-deist. Yeah my realisation was slow, one question after another. Happy to meet you all.
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Raven Offline
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 20, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Hey, a fellow recovering catholic! Pleased to meet you, dude. Looking forward to reading your posts. Welcome. It's a right nice community here.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana

"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin


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Terr Offline
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 20, 2013 at 10:46 pm
(May 20, 2013 at 10:42 pm)Raven Wrote: Hey, a fellow recovering catholic! Pleased to meet you, dude. Looking forward to reading your posts. Welcome. It's a right nice community here.

Thanks Raven. Although I'm well over the recovery thanks, long time since I considered myself catholic.

P.S. I am a member of Atheist Ireland, but their forum kinda died out it seems.
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 20, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Welcome
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 20, 2013 at 11:41 pm
I like to think of myself as a recovered catholic.

Welcome to our little oasis of sanity.
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 21, 2013 at 1:58 am
I have a special place in my heart for Catholics. Be glad you're not thereWink

WelcomeSmile
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 21, 2013 at 2:13 am
Hello and welcome to AF! ^_^
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 21, 2013 at 2:15 am
Heya Smile I come from an Irish Catholic family as well, nothing like a Catholic mammy to put the fear of God in ye!
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 21, 2013 at 2:22 am
Congradulations for comeing out of Babylon, and commiserations for going back in, be it at a different gate !
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RE: New here, Irish Ex-catholic
May 21, 2013 at 6:10 am
Welcome

As we can see from above, we do keep some nutters around, just to remind us of the vacuous crap that religion is Big Grin

Enjoy the forums.
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