Comments on: A Catholic with atheistic leanings

By: Charity Woosley

Charity Woosley — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:38:59 +0000

This person is the worst Catholic on the face of the planet. How could one possibly claim to be a Catholic and yet believe that man created God?

Awesome. I love this site.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:42:25 +0000

I would like to make a small correction to your comment about Catholic salvation through works. The Catholic faith does not include salvation through works alone, but through a combination of faith and works (as opposed to Protestants, who believe in salvation through faith alone). Baptism, in one of three forms, is required for salvation in the Catholic faith. The most typical of these is baptism by water, but they also acknowledge baptism by blood (martyrdom in the name of the Christian faith) and baptism by desire (an ardent wish to receive baptism) if the individual dies before they can be baptized in the normal fashion.

Though I now consider myself an atheistic agnostic, I studied WAY too much detail on Catholic theology growing up… :)

By: ron

ron — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:24:02 +0000

There is no way one can truly have clear thought if one’s mind is muddled and confused with the lies, promises, scare tactics, and all the other associated bullshit, of any religion, myth or superstition.

I have never felt so free as when i finally threw off the childhood brainwashing regarding god and chrisianity. T hat is horrible stuff to pound into a child’s brain.

There is no god, no demons, no heaven nor hell. The “saints” and “prophets” were and are delusional idiots, hungry for power and control over other people.

Ron

By: Scott Talbot

Scott Talbot — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:34:12 +0000

Just needed to drop a note in here about a pet peeve of mine: the muddying of our tongue: to wit the word fundamentalist.

The word defines a person or group that insists upon a specific interpretation of their Holy Book and implies the following characteristics to those people:

1. Rabid adherence to and faith in a rigid dogma
2. Inflexibility
3. Intolerance
4. Illogic
5. Anti-intellectualism

Because Atheists have no Holy Book nor Dogma (note that I disagree with detractors that no book by R. Dawkins, C Hitchens, S. Harris et al are in any sense Holy, nor do they prescribe any particular dogma that any atheist must respect) therefore it is inappropriate (and confusing) to use this word to describe atheists.

Of those characteristics, I personally have not witnessed an Atheist being Anti-Intellectual in fact the majority seem to be extremely well read ind intelligent themselves and generally encourage others to increase their knowledge (as you also have!)

Also I have never read or spoken to an atheist whose logic I could fault, Though I am sure it is possible that some atheist somewhere might be. In truth we may all be suffering from some fancy delirium that we cannot detect(but I for one doubt it

Inflexibility and or intolerance? Yeah who isn’t

But I digress! When someone uses the term fundamentalist it would be helpful to better define how the person is acting if you could identify if a better adjective is used – Intolerant, militant, aggressive, belligerent etc.