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17. Lol. I see. I'm coming at it from the viewpoint of a sorta, maybe not anymore.

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #15)

Thu Mar 29, 2018, 05:31 PM

Mar 2018

I guess I was speaking as someone who understands how people become believers but also how they can eventually become non believers. Or skeptical at best.

They are somewhere in the comfortable middle rather than "head first, all-in" believers.

They are believers with what is preached until he gets to the point where the human psyche says, "wtf? Naaah, that's not how it is."

i.e. Never lose your ability to trust in your own moral compass. Never hand it over completely to someone else.

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Let's party! Pope insists there is no hell! [View all] True Dough Mar 2018 OP

Old sinners never die BeyondGeography Mar 2018 #1

According to the Pope everyone I knew disappeared. CatMor Mar 2018 #2

Heresy! Blasphemy! MineralMan Mar 2018 #3

It's no accident that Trump's most enthusiastic followers embrace the concept of a literal Hell. Girard442 Mar 2018 #4

wellllllllllllll CelticWinter Mar 2018 #5

So, Heaven is the eternal "contemplation of God?" MineralMan Mar 2018 #6

Catholics are used to this goalpost moving. But its the lingering guilt of "but what if.." Wwcd Mar 2018 #7

Thanks for the laughs! True Dough Mar 2018 #9

I grew up Catholic, learned the Mass in Latin (a language which none of us understood) Wwcd Mar 2018 #10

What does Wwcd stand for? True Dough Mar 2018 #12

Haaha.. I'd be a lousy wwchristian disciple Wwcd Mar 2018 #16

The Trump presidency is HELL! True Dough Mar 2018 #20

Haaha.. The Truth Wwcd Mar 2018 #21

Billy Graham essentially thought the same way I think TlalocW Mar 2018 #8

Yup. That annihilation part was what separated him from many Wwcd Mar 2018 #11

Why thankfully? TlalocW Mar 2018 #13

Thankfully some didn't buy the annihilation part. Wwcd Mar 2018 #14

Ah TlalocW Mar 2018 #15

Lol. I see. I'm coming at it from the viewpoint of a sorta, maybe not anymore. Wwcd Mar 2018 #17

Bill Maher was right Duppers Mar 2018 #18

Haa. Maher should have the Pope on his show. Wwcd Mar 2018 #19

There are more atheists in pulpits than MineralMan Mar 2018 #22

DUN DUN DUN!!! True Dough Mar 2018 #23

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