Dec 8, 2011 -- 5:13PM, costrel wrote:

Dec 8, 2011 -- 4:15PM, Ur2 wrote:

Most Catholic "facts" are based on myth which does not make them "facts". Whether one is raised Catholic has no bearing on the OP. Whether one is a "good Catholic" has no bearing on the OP. What it does mean though, is that apparently a whole bunch of people believe a whole bunch of non-Biblical, man-made hoodoo about nothing and it's blocking out the empirical evidence to the contrary that would otherwise allow them to be rational thinkers.

The Bible itself is nothing but a collection of fictitious myths, legends, folklore, and other stuff. If Catholics accept a lot of myth, so too do the Baptists and other Protestants. Most Baptists apparently even accept those pious myths about a 7-day creation a few thousand years ago and a talking snake and a great big flood, blocking out the empirical evidence of evolution and an old earth and demonstrating that they are NOT rational thinkers. All religious myth, biblical or extra-biblical, is fictitious and man-made. So if you want to start ripping into extra-biblical Catholic myth, go right ahead. Just don't forget that you Baptists believe in a whole lot of fictitious myth as well. And to top it all off, all Christians -- Catholics, Baptists, Episcopalians, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, Methodists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostalists, Hutterites, Amish -- believe in a fictitious and man-made God. 

+1!

And your post nails down the fact you do understand what this topic is about.

Hint: Making it all about you isn't it.

Thanx,

Ur2

Dec 8, 2011 -- 5:13PM, costrel wrote:

Dec 8, 2011 -- 4:15PM, Ur2 wrote:

Most Catholic "facts" are based on myth which does not make them "facts". Whether one is raised Catholic has no bearing on the OP. Whether one is a "good Catholic" has no bearing on the OP. What it does mean though, is that apparently a whole bunch of people believe a whole bunch of non-Biblical, man-made hoodoo about nothing and it's blocking out the empirical evidence to the contrary that would otherwise allow them to be rational thinkers.

The Bible itself is nothing but a collection of fictitious myths, legends, folklore, and other stuff. If Catholics accept a lot of myth, so too do the Baptists and other Protestants. Most Baptists apparently even accept those pious myths about a 7-day creation a few thousand years ago and a talking snake and a great big flood, blocking out the empirical evidence of evolution and an old earth and demonstrating that they are NOT rational thinkers. All religious myth, biblical or extra-biblical, is fictitious and man-made. So if you want to start ripping into extra-biblical Catholic myth, go right ahead. Just don't forget that you Baptists believe in a whole lot of fictitious myth as well. And to top it all off, all Christians -- Catholics, Baptists, Episcopalians, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, Methodists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostalists, Hutterites, Amish -- believe in a fictitious and man-made God. 

Hello,

I have two friends who are atheist and I've been down this road 1000x. Instead of writing 5 pages, since this is not the thread, I'll just say you have your belief and I have mine.

Oh, by the way, we get along just fine.

love