tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2101896362709274025.post4318579339089161680..comments2023-04-14T06:44:19.098-07:00Comments on Inquiring Infidel: Why Most Catholics are HereticsInquiring Infidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11601349182906918700noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2101896362709274025.post-4755310691170651412013-09-16T17:12:38.055-07:002013-09-16T17:12:38.055-07:00You're absolute right. I'm a Catholic and ...You're absolute right. I'm a Catholic and I fully agree that most Catholics have very little idea about their faith. Most don't even care, frankly, but hold on to some of the parts while substituting others with whatever seems fashionable today (yoga, cosmic forces, Chopra, Oprah, hippies, communism, capitalism, whatever). It's a pity it takes an atheist to state the obvious, namely, that what makes you Catholic is that you believe what the Catholic Church teaches, that you actually live the Catholic message. What many of these wanky Catholics do is as silly as saying you're a string theorist while claiming you think string theory is nonsense and no doing any string theory. They want to keep the label for sentimental reasons (my father was a Catholic, my grandmother was a Catholic, etc). That's quite disingenuous and cowardly. <br /><br />Become familiar with the faith and then take a good hard look at what you really believe. Don't pull that smarmy move where you say "who are you to define who's Catholic and who's not?" Well, I'm not defining it, the Church is! I should be asking YOU who YOU are to be redefining what it means to be Catholic. You can't just use a word and ignore what it means because you like some of the baggage that comes with it. That's equal to lying. You can't say "I don't believe in transubstantiation" and be a Catholic. You can't willfully produce abortions and be a Catholic. It's just silly. Stop living in denial and either leave the Church or start on the path to becoming an actual Catholic.<br /><br />Dawkins is right when he says that moderate and liberal religious people are just as bad as the radicals and fundamentalists, but for the wrong reasons. Not because they're legitimizing the fundamentalists and radicals, but because they're just as ignorant and arrogant as they are. They think they can own the label, that they can call an apple a pear, without being it or believing what stands behind it. Man up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2101896362709274025.post-48689596500753611032013-02-22T22:12:05.289-08:002013-02-22T22:12:05.289-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18252007129827580509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2101896362709274025.post-60200617324953048622010-04-15T13:21:19.396-07:002010-04-15T13:21:19.396-07:00Now I want to become Catholic, just to be excommun...Now I want to become Catholic, just to be excommunicated.The Nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00617669314398652449noreply@blogger.com