An Atheist Blogger Joined The Catholic Church – Maybe I Should Also….
Posted by Phil Ferguson on July 10th, 2012 – 5 Comments – Posted in UncategorizedA few weeks ago an atheist blogger starting having doubts about her lack of faith. She wondered where morality comes from. After a long talk with a friend she came to this conclusion.
I believed that the Moral Law wasn’t just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to that living Truth.
She decided that the way to the TRUTH and God’s Moral Law was Catholicism.
As she was thinking about these things, I was visiting the Vatican.
Could this just be a coincidence? I have been wondering lately if I was missing something. I always allow for the possibility that I am wrong.
The Vatican was amazing and it moved me …. and then this other atheist becomes a catholic. I decided to think real hard and I have now decided maybe I am missing something. Maybe the one true church that Peter built is the right one. Maybe they do have the answers to the tough moral questions.
Maybe I also should join? I did some quick research and found out where god’s moral law can take us.
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI explained that condoms aggravates the problem of Aids. The result is that ten’s of thousand or maybe hundred’s of thousands of people will die.
Around the world a countless number of innocent children have been raped by the people that claim to hold the magic ticket to heaven. When some parents start asking questions the church jumps into action. They move the pedophile to a new town and a new batch of kids. Their self appointed pitchman Bill Donohue explains that it is the kids that temp the priests to touch them in the rectory. Lives are ruined but, the objective of the church is to cover it up at all costs. They don’t fire the priests they don’t help the victims. In the Philadelphia archdioceses alone 90 priests, “…have been credibly accused of sexual assault or abuse…”.
It is a problem that the church cannot seem to stop but when a priest is caught with an adult consenting woman he is fired right away. This appears to be a violation of god’s moral law. The only conclusion a thinking adult can reach is that they are OK with their buddies raping children.
Earlier this year they again applied god’s moral law to American nuns. It appears that they were promoting, “radical feminist themes”. What did they do? They dared to disagree with some bishops and asked questions.
“…we have just been raising questions and interpreting politics.”
You cannot question their authority or they will throw you into their very own jail. In May the pope’s personal butler was locked up in the Vatican jail. Why? He is believed to have leaked documents that show rampant corruption within the Vatican. No trial (just like the old days).
In Illinois the church announced that they would rather put 2,000 children on the street than follow the law. Thankfully, another group stepped up to help the kids and now 2,000 children are free from the influence of the catholic church.
It also appears the the Vatican bank has been laundering money. One of the men now under investigation wrote in a memo…”I’ve seen things in the Vatican that scare me.” This is not a church it is the mob.
And now these “wise” men and promoters of god’s moral law want to impose their will on the women of America. Almost all catholic women use contraceptives despite the warnings from the pope. Now the church is using the US courts to sue for control. They want to make in almost impossible for any employee to get birth control – Catholic or not.
After a brief review of the morals of the catholic church I must conclude that they are morally bankrupt. Anyone that helps them or sends them money is part of the problem. There is only one way to wash away the evil from just reading about the catholic church. I have now pulling out my check book and sending $1,000 to the Secular Student Alliance. I invite you to wash away the sin and do the same.
Thanks Phil, for a great blog on this topic!
Sue–ex Catholic and very happy about it
Platonic concept of an asbolute good, is an antecedent for christian thelogy, just that they make this absolutely good a person, god, there is no much difference is still distant, abstract, uncontestable. “I actually believed”, faith, not a reasoning, may be just falling to the pressure of relatives or her couple, and i can guess too that she lives in a christian country if she would live in india she would be saying the same about Krishna.
Saying there had to be a higher power providing morality is a cop-out and shows extreme laziness when it comes to really studying the matter. Morality is nothing but a rule system for the mutual benefit of an entire group. Humanity for centuries has changed these rules over and over again. Even the most basic of “thou shalt not kill” only is applied in cases (BY CHRISTIANS) where you can’t call the person your enemy. Most people really only mean that you shouldn’t kill people in your own country, of your own political ideology, of your own religion, and not if they’re rich or good-looking. No one else cares if an ugly, fat, drug user gets killed, or a prostitute, or if thousands of Arabs get killed in a different country, etc.
Many animals have rule systems as well. A beehive will kill a bee that is doing something that may harm the hive (has broken some hive rule). Pet birds can be finicky about which toys certain people can play with….they have just made rules, and they will enforce them. There are billions of other examples, which I can’t go into right now.
Most people are too simplistic in how they view morality as well. When given more complex cases, they cannot explain how something can at the same time be moral and immoral at the same time. These cases only become moral and immoral at the same time by applying their simplistic view. If more study was performed and more complex systems applied, these moral conflicts can be satisfactorily remedied.
Of course you should become Catholic. A priest can say some magic words over a cracker and it literally turns into human flesh. What more evidence do you need that Catholicism is right? If there were evidence that the cracker remained a cracker despite their insistence it was human flesh then that would reason not to buy into the religion, but clearly, the “atheist” blogger saw that the cracker actually turned into human flesh otherwise she wouldn’t have converted.
The great thing about bring catholic is that you have been in an adversarial situation so long that you can pick and choose what to follow. I mean you can do birth control and genuflect. It’s almost as liberating as episcapalianism where as long as you show up it’s all good.