In my very limited experience with Atheists, I have noticed that there is often a connection with the catholic church. How many have noticed this?
2007-01-01 16:32:41 · 20 answers · asked by Jennifer D 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I meant no disrespect to Cathlics. I personally have not met an athiest who is an ex-baptist. I have met several angry catholics.
2007-01-01 16:38:42 · update #1
Angry ex-cathloic right here. I graduated a cathloic high school with a class of more then 500. I didn't know everyone, but I only knew one person that made it out of there still calling themselves religious. I have since met some pretty cool cathloics, and all of them said the same thing- my high school had problems.
So from my own experiences and what I've heard from college friends, I'd blame cathloic school. The incredible intolerance and ignorance of the teachers and clergy at that school still amazes me. I'll itemize for you.
a) a hypocritical morality teacher that refused to answer any question that began with 'why'
b) the priests reaction to the pedophilia scandal- we were told it was all lies and that we were not to speak of it. Legitimate questions were punished with detentions
c) multiple lawsuits agianst the teachers in the school for sexual abuse
d) prayer was a punishment
e) flat out lies in abstinence only education (ie. condoms break 80% of the time)
f) nuns who still hit kids (I graduated in 2004)
Oh- and at my church, the priest that had baptized both me and my brother refused to sign my brother's eagle scout papers because we didn't donate enough money.
Obviously, not all cathloic are bad people, but like I said, no one i knew made it through cathloic school and stayed religious. I've heard similar things from people who went to other cathloic schools.
2007-01-01 17:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should say that. I have long been amazed at how similar some outspoken Athiests and Christians can be. Both seem to be trying to convert the other - the Christians because they fear your damnation and the Athiests because they want Christians to see how stupid they are. Now that you pose this question, it all makes a lot more sense to me.
Don't get me wrong - I know Athiests who were never part of any Christian Church, but those who were not part of the church were not the kind of in your face Athiests that you can sometimes run into here (just as you find in your face Christians trying to convert you or control your behavior). Thanks!
Peace!
2007-01-02 00:37:28 · answer #2 · answered by carole 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that there is a strong correlation, and I myself, as a "fallen" Catholic, am more agnostic than atheist. I agree with you that some Catholics have strong reactions to their childhood upbringings, especially if their parents or teachers (nuns) were very strict. But rejection of religion is certainly not limited to Catholics: more novels involve rejection of Protestant religions than of Catholicism, such as "The Poisonwood Bible", "The Scarlet Letter", etc.
2007-01-02 12:36:43 · answer #3 · answered by AnOrdinaryGuy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm ex-catholic, but many aetheist comee from all walks of life, catholics make up 25% of the US population so the odds are 1 in 4 used to be caholics.....and no a priest didn't touch my little pp, i left religion when i started using logic......best move i ever made
2007-01-02 00:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by juniorramos1974 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist, and I own a kippah, know how to read Hebrew, and was cut ceremonially in a certain area a little more than a week after I was born. So I guess no, I haven't really noticed that.
2007-01-02 03:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Phil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you reference only Catholics? Atheists turned away from Jesus Christ when He said that He was sent by GOD!
The world seems to take exception to Catholicism because they show their beginning back to Jesus tell Peter that He is the rock upon which HE will build His Church!
Every other Christian religion can be traced back to a man, and there seems to be no history of any of them going back to year 1350AD! Which means none of them existed 1000AD after Christ Rose into heaven! Only Catholicism can be traced back into history! Back thru the time, when in history only the words, The Church was used interchangeable with Christianity!
2007-01-02 00:46:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I can remember coming across a couple of ex-Catholic atheists, but not so many as to suggest any greater connection.
2007-01-02 00:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've seen it in the opposite way. I'm an Catholic ex-Atheist.
And actually, by far most Athiests I've seen are ex-Protestant.
2007-01-02 00:35:56 · answer #8 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no accurate statistics available on this.
Also interesting is the number of ex-atheists who are now Catholics.
2007-01-02 07:30:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd return to the Catholic Church if they would start doing the masses in Latin again.
Christianity is easier to believe when you don't know what they are saying
2007-01-02 07:47:52 · answer #10 · answered by Honest Opinion 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋