An atheist view about the catholic church?

Question

Although i am a muslim turned atheist, i find the catholic church to be the best for these reasons

the most humane organisation on earth today, helping millions of poor in the third world, educating them and speaking out against brutality and cruelty

an organisation that has branched out to welcome people of all walks of life, and embrace the ideas of education and science

i am not a catholic, but the catholic church i believe is the best and no other religious organisation can come even close to it. (there are still areas where they can improve, and they try to do it always)

comments?

Answer 1

wow, you're prob'ly the only one I've seen here that speaks good about us Catholics.....everyone else just lashes out at us......God Bless You

Answer 2

I'm sorry.
It would have been great if you found out these things on your own but it would seem someone it telling you lies about your faith.

The most Humane Organization in the world has been on one side or another of every instance of Ethnic Cleansing in the AD callendar. They have endorsed warfare torture and murder in the name of the Church and it is catholic Doctrine to do nothing to ease the sufferring of those who will not convert to their faith.

The Organization that has branched out to welcome people of all walks of life will not permit women to take a leadership role in any church affairs. It's doctrine teaches Catholics to renounce anyone who doesn't hold catholic ethics, most specifically Scientists and Homosexuals. No force in humanity is more of an obstacle to education or science than the Catholic church as they are the most staunch supporters of the notion that science needs to come to terms with the views of the Church.

Your Bastion of Humanity and Science protests research that could cure painful diseases rather than re-evaluating their stance on ethics.

Answer 3

First of all my dear, you will receive a lot of flack for that comment and what should you care, evetyone has the right to express their opinions.

I may be biased because I am Catholic myself and I do my utmost to live up to it, and I do agree with you. I try to live those very attributes that you described. My friends are mostly Muslim, Protestant and a few Atheists and I force my faith upon none of them. However they do sometimes chastize me for practicing my faith.

Thank you friend.

Keep in mind also, that there is a lot of Anti-Catholic in N.A. and the rest of the world.

P.S.
Can I have ur number?

Ciao

Answer 4

Amen to that! I'd like to thank you for your opinion of my church. All I ever hear is that we're an opressive religion whose priests live to molest little children and corrupt the minds of the less fortunate with our ways. I can respect the fact that you don't believe what I believe and I admire the respect you have for my beliefs and my church. Wish there were more like you.

Answer 5

They have certainly created an infrastructure capable of benefiting many people. I believe, however, more of their wealth could go to social service programs. I like that, while they may reach out to people regarding religion through their programs, their programs (in large part) are not based on religion.

Answer 6

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study
What: U of M study reveals America’s distrust of atheism
Who: Penny Edgell, associate professor of sociology
Contact: Nina Shepherd, sociology media relations, [phone]
Mark Cassutt University News Service, [phone]

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (3/28/2006) -- American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.

From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.

Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public. “Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring exception to the rule of increasing social tolerance over the last 30 years,” says Penny Edgell, associate sociology professor and the study’s lead researcher.

Edgell also argues that today’s atheists play the role that Catholics, Jews and communists have played in the past—they offer a symbolic moral boundary to membership in American society. “It seems most Americans believe that diversity is fine, as long as every one shares a common ‘core’ of values that make them trustworthy—and in America, that ‘core’ has historically been religious,” says Edgell. Many of the study’s respondents associated atheism with an array of moral indiscretions ranging from criminal behavior to rampant materialism and cultural elitism.

Edgell believes a fear of moral decline and resulting social disorder is behind the findings. “Americans believe they share more than rules and procedures with their fellow citizens—they share an understanding of right and wrong,” she said. “Our findings seem to rest on a view of atheists as self-interested individuals who are not concerned with the common good.”

The researchers also found acceptance or rejection of atheists is related not only to personal religiosity, but also to one’s exposure to diversity, education and political orientation—with more educated, East and West Coast Americans more accepting of atheists than their Midwestern counterparts.

The study is co-authored by assistant professor Joseph Gerteis and associate professor Doug Hartmann. It’s the first in a series of national studies conducted the American Mosaic Project, a three-year project funded by the Minneapolis-based David Edelstein Family Foundation that looks at race, religion and cultural diversity in the contemporary United States. The study will appear in the April issue of the American Sociological Review.

Answer 7

I was raised a catholic now I am my own god, who intends to be worshipped as such by my own flock hundreds of years from now. Once I had matured mentally I felt betrayed by that belief system. It really hurt to find out they were all speaking in metaphors. If, thens. Speaking in Basic. But also not preparing me to be a leader, just a follower. Not a thinker, but a mental slave to an improbable fantasy, leaving me vulnerable and naive. Stuck in stupid as the Texans say.

Answer 8

thank you buddy.....we catholics get our a ss kicked all the time (but its okay because jesus warned of it)

thanks for the kind words.......i tell you your closer to jesus than many so called "christians"

Answer 9

The Catholic church is cool and all plus they're cannibals. That's so freakin' badass!

Answer 10

The crusades.
The inquisition.
etc.