So what your saying is you'd give up your immoral ways if their was a heaven, but since there isn't you'll keep doing it.
i havent seen him saying that, Xant just didnt respond on a, from my point of view, insulting implication from you.
Argument is still valid since you are saying the reason you won't give up your immoral ways is because there is no heaven meaning you won't accept the religion because it's condemning your immoral ways and you want to keep them.
How about christians choose not being judged in this life with a chance there is no judgment afterwards by that having a free path at everything? That seems pretty much to be your argument the other way round. I think i will use that as base paradigma from now on when reading your posts.
I'll give you a little credit though it does seem a bit ridiculous, because who wants to be accountable for doing bad things.
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That's Catholicism, what they're doing is not right and it's just another way for man to take advantage of other men.
While i wouldnt judge catholicism solely based by actions of priests who take advatage of childs, i do judge catholicism by how they judge themselves or ignor to judge those formentioned priest, instead of excumunicating them and leave it to state authorities, they only relocate them and try to treat these cases silently. I judge catholisim by their doctrins, by their past and current actions as a church. That all still is not always the same as the religion and the believes of catholicism, there are many things to differentiat.
Like the Crusades and blah blah blah. No man can make another man's sins "go away" since the priest is just as much a sinner.
Every man for his own sanity, will find away or not, in his lifetime to live with what he has done. Thats how brains work, brains will always try to see onceself as good person, if that isnt possible, the brain will have problems working normally. Some can blend out their misdeeds, rectify them, ignore them or justify them, in the end but people who are doing bad things(if they have also some intelligence ^^) will suffer because of that in their lifetime. Brains who work differently to that are normaly called sociological psychopaths(could be wrong about the term here but that srpang to mind ^^). Is this a fact? Well from what i have learned and experienced in my life sofar, yes.
I believe in Christianity and I study Creationism but i'm no scholar on the subject.
You are entitled to that, as are others to believe in the flying Spagetthi Mosnter, Lochness Monster, Tooth fairies, ... any type of story or concept which makes you feel better and gets you through the day. Just don't expect others to.
Creationism ...
