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Hello eh!
January 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Canadian atheist here saying hi.
Used to be Catholic. Was even an altar boy for a time. Never really believed.
Anyone know what the deal is with leaving Catholicism? Do I have to write the Pope and tell him whats up or just keep on keepin' on?
Anyhoo look forward to talkin to y'all.
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January 24, 2015 at 3:05 pm
 According to my sister, since I was baptized in my first months i will be saved somehow. I would be truly fucked to have to spend eternity with a bunch of sanctimonious pricks.
Ahh, theists and their fantasies.
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January 24, 2015 at 3:07 pm
Welcome! Sorry can't help, I'm a protestant atheist.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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January 24, 2015 at 3:11 pm
You could maybe get excommunicated?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
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January 24, 2015 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2015 at 3:14 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Eh, don't do the church any favors. Getting officially "divorced" from the church would be for them, not for you, right?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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January 24, 2015 at 3:19 pm
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(January 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Saidin Wrote: Canadian atheist here saying hi.
Used to be Catholic. Was even an altar boy for a time. Never really believed.
Anyone know what the deal is with leaving Catholicism? Do I have to write the Pope and tell him whats up or just keep on keepin' on?
Anyhoo look forward to talkin to y'all.
Oh hai there! Welcome!
Ex-Catholic here too. Here in Italy, the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics launched an "unbaptizing" campaign, whereby you send a letter to the parish where you were baptized stating that you no longer wish to be considered a part of the Catholic Church, and they will, by law, strike your name from their records.
I don't know how it works in Canada, but you could try and contact your national atheist/secular organization and find out.
Personally, I don't think that striking your name from the records of the church makes that big a difference. What counts is what you think, not what is written on some decades old book collecting dust in the archives of a catholic parish.
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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January 24, 2015 at 3:23 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 3:11 pm)JuliaL Wrote: You could maybe get excommunicated? That sounds like I have to do something bad. I guess that would fall right into theists ideas about atheists.
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January 24, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Welcome aboard!
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January 24, 2015 at 3:29 pm
I guess I should say the comment about how to leave the church was tongue in cheek. I really dgaf what they think of me.
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RE: Hello eh!
January 24, 2015 at 3:30 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 3:23 pm)Saidin Wrote: (January 24, 2015 at 3:11 pm)JuliaL Wrote: You could maybe get excommunicated? That sounds like I have to do something bad. I guess that would fall right into theists ideas about atheists.
I read that you are automatically excommunicated if you are an apostate (even if the church doesn't know that). Even then, you are still part of the Catholic Church, but "out of grace". 
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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