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December 30, 2014 at 12:50 am
(December 29, 2014 at 10:56 pm)IATIA Wrote: (December 29, 2014 at 10:42 pm)Lambert Wrote: ... but let me add that Christ never said anything for me to believe because Jesus was the spokesperson in the Gospels.
Lambert Wrote:I'll be a theist if you say but I personally object to you calling me a Christian. Hey, it is what it is. I do not know what branch, sect, cult, whatever, of catholicism you practice, but I was raised a catholic and though I never adopted or believed any of that superstitious bullshit, I was still required to attend catechism for 13 years of my life and I have never heard of this crap you have come up with.
Deal with it, if you are a catholic, then you are a christian and a theist.
We had 6 years of Catechism (if that is what you call it). Our grade school did not go past grade 6. We are Roman Catholic and our grade school was a Catholic school. We had boy school by 'brothers' and girl school by 'nuns' and that was never past grade 6. Up to 52 kids in a class and never less than 45.
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December 30, 2014 at 1:01 am
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December 30, 2014 at 1:35 am
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December 30, 2014 at 1:42 am
What it boils down to is that you just do not have the ability to understand the words theism and atheism.
Are you a child? Maybe the words we are using are too big.
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December 30, 2014 at 1:50 am
(December 30, 2014 at 1:42 am)IATIA Wrote: What it boils down to is that you just do not have the ability to understand the words theism and atheism.
Are you a child? Maybe the words we are using are too big.
Nono, I am not a child, and language tells me that the a- prefix suggests that theism was prior to the objection made by the atheist.
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December 30, 2014 at 2:08 am
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December 30, 2014 at 2:18 am
(December 30, 2014 at 2:08 am)Full Circle Wrote: (December 30, 2014 at 1:35 am)Lambert Wrote: I think ours was called the Holy Catholic Church.
Not on the list of acknowledged Catholic sects, are you sure?
To tall to measure maybe?
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December 30, 2014 at 3:36 am
I'm telling you he's a Poe
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December 30, 2014 at 3:45 am
(December 30, 2014 at 1:35 am)Lambert Wrote: But sorry sir, I never claimed to be theist. Catholics have the freedom to believe or not to believe, they always did, and I am just one of those. Catholics just do what Catholics do and are never asked what they believe to qualify. I.e. that is what infant baptism is all about.
And of course you can deny theism if your idea of theism includes the existence of a God or gods or anything to do with what we would call God, such as the trinity, that in Catholicism is freely expressed as metaphor to encounter later in life on our own, or not, to say that nobody will ever ask and/or tell you what to do.
And it is not my job as Catholic to convince you of anything. My reason for suggesting that atheism can be just a fear of religion is because in some religions great demands are made of its members, such as tithing, religious obligations and behavior modifications to fit the mold.
Fascinating.
So you're saying your whole church would be surprised at any link with Jesus? Who would you most identify with? Mary? The father? The spirit? The priest?
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December 30, 2014 at 4:23 am
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Lambert Wrote:Catholics have the freedom to believe or not to believe, they always did, and I am just one of those.
Have you been typing something else, and your autocorrect has been substituting "Catholic" all the time? Because your story makes much more sense if I read Catholic as Diesel mechanic or hairdresser, just to name two examples
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