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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 23, 2017 at 1:27 pm
(April 22, 2017 at 10:49 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Wanting paradise is a virtue since it's a place of closeness to God. Also, where do you get the notion that taking care of yourself is wrong? Indeed doing things to take of yourself is most important before one can try to wish well for another person's well-being. You have to have peace of mind to spread peace of mind to others.
And fearing hell is a virtue since it's a place of distance to God.
And indeed the great hope should be love for God and love for God, and greatest fear should be to have hate towards God and hate from God.
May God guide us in the ways that lead to the balanced love we are meant to have, where our love is not mixed with dark intentions but is sincerely for the sake of God. Amen
Do you even know what the word 'virtue' means?
It means having high moral standards. Those with high moral standards need no punishment nor reward to be good. They only need to be good. Those who do good because some invisible sky wizard tells them to or he will punish them does not have very high moral standards.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 23, 2017 at 1:56 pm
And is love part of virtue?
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 24, 2017 at 9:10 am
(April 22, 2017 at 10:59 am)MysticKnight Wrote: (April 22, 2017 at 10:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: What a load of horseshit.
Shit is the falsehood and grey (mixed of light and darkness) morality people call to.
The truth is beautiful and doesn't hurt but gives peace.
So Gawdzilla was right.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 24, 2017 at 9:56 am
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MysticKnight Wrote:Orochi Wrote:Maintaining a belief just because you like it but don't really believe it . Is neither healthy nor honest.
Neither is forfeiting a belief you know deep inside to be true because of the obligations it brings, the desire that it opposes, and the perception of the self it disgraces.
Who is doing that? Name names, please.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 24, 2017 at 10:46 am
I'm still a fan of polygraph exams for anyone wanting to be a TV preacher to make sure they have some discernable sincerely held beliefs that are not centered on Mammon (unless they want to openly shill for Mammon, of course)
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
May 6, 2017 at 12:39 am
Interesting article. I think it probably happens more often that you think but you don' hear about it because the priests just end up pretending they believe in God to keep their jobs.
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
May 6, 2017 at 1:02 am
So many of them reach the conclusion they no longer believe yet still remain in the profession only to further lead others into believing that which is clearly false.
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RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
May 8, 2017 at 12:41 pm
(April 22, 2017 at 10:59 am)MysticKnight Wrote: (April 22, 2017 at 10:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: What a load of horseshit.
Shit is the falsehood and grey (mixed of light and darkness) morality people call to.
The truth is beautiful and doesn't hurt but gives peace.
That confirms it. It's horseshit.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
