Pope Francis recognizes good atheists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mother Theresa is a good example. I think she was more of an agnostic, though.

Um, wait. There are certainly great people who do much good without being part of a religion, but Mother Teresa, an agnostic or an atheist? She was a Catholic nun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mother Theresa is a good example. I think she was more of an agnostic, though.

Um, wait. There are certainly great people who do much good without being part of a religion, but Mother Teresa, an agnostic or an atheist? She was a Catholic nun.

You didn't read her letters. She was publicly a Catholic nun, but introspectively an agnostic.

[takoma]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mother Theresa is a good example. I think she was more of an agnostic, though.

Um, wait. There are certainly great people who do much good without being part of a religion, but Mother Teresa, an agnostic or an atheist? She was a Catholic nun.

You didn't read her letters. She was publicly a Catholic nun, but introspectively an agnostic.

I don't know about Mother Teresa, but I see no contradiction between being an agnostic, in the sense of thinking it impossible to KNOW whether God exists, and yet fully BELIEVING in your heart that He does. Or, on the other end, any contradiction between my own agnosticism and my atheistic belief that God, in the sense understood by most religions, does not exist.