CarefreeDude posted...
I've got another question, if you need to believe in god/jesus and have faith in him in order to go to heaven, does that mean everyone who has never encountered Christianity (such as uncontacted tribes, people in some remote areas, etc) and have never even heard of god will just be excluded from heaven without ever getting the opportunity?
They say that they go to a sort of purgatory that is a pleasant place if you were a good person who wasn't Catholic. Non-catholic Christians get more preferential treatment.
Depending on the faction the rules change. That one baptist church, the "god hates .." people, they believe everyone who isn't part of that sect is going to hell, and they must do everything they can to save people from that horrible fate, which is to publicly humiliate themselves.
CarefreeDude posted...
Sounds like you had a great experience being free of it. I have been atheist my whole life. Recently someone close to me who was also atheist found the catholic faith and joined the church. They have been trying hard to push me into the catholic faith, but I've been heavily resistant. They keep wanting to know why I don't want to believe in god, and none of my answers seem to make sense to them. it's driving me nuts.
Yeah the people who become religious later in life are a different beast. It's usually because they were in a really dark spot and they needed something to turn their life around.
Sega9599 posted...
If they truly knew their Bibles, they wouldn't say that, because no one can come near to God unless God draws them. Kind of ties into the topic also.
These topics tend to be heavily and acceptingly pro atheism and how stupid or delusional Christians are though. It would be nice to hear from an atheist who stopped believeing in crystals or who was an ex muslim or who no longer believes in the 'ancient ancestral spirits', for a change. We never do though.
I also don't like any of those either.
The only religion I "like" is the Japanese idol worship stuff tbh. You have a spirit of your house, there's a spirit of the lake, the rock over there has a spirit, that's pretty fun. But they don't create an end of the world narrative where you must spread the holy word, or convince people to make bad decisions, like refusing medical care. If anything it makes people more respectful of their environment.