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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I believe Jesus existed. I believe Jesus is the son of God. He taught everything in the New Testament, without him there would be no New Testament. I don't WANT to talk to Jesus because I believe religion is a personal thing. This may be the way I was brought up. Our church was not all get up and Praise Jesus.

My relationship with God is personal and I don't feel I need to discuss it with anybody or preach it to anybody. It is not depressing to me, it is very comfortable.

But if somebody would like to practice differently than me I respect that, if somebody wants to practice a different religion than me or no religion at all that is fine with me to. I completely respect that and believe that is their relationship with God and if they are happy/healthy then they are doing it right.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I would rather sleep in on Sunday and many times I do. I don't think I am going to hell for it. Well, yes Jesus is a part of the Catholic teaching. I mentioned Christmas and Easter which revolve around Jesus. I am a very liberal Catholic, have you never met a Catholic person that does not talk about Jesus all the time?[/quote]

PP I am even more perplexed now.  Is Jesus "part of the Catholic teaching" or is Jesus THE Catholic teaching?  Do you actually believe that Jesus is the son of God, pp?  I am not Catholic but I'm pretty sure that's not just a big part of being Catholic, that IS being Catholic or any type of Christian.  I think when talking about your Catholicism talking about Jesus is totally appropriate.  I mean, according to your religion, Jesus is God and taught all kinds of awesome things and was tortured and died out of love for you.  Shouldn't you WANT to talk about Jesus?  To me, it doesn't make sense to practice Catholicism and go to church and go through all the motions if you don't actually feel strongly about Jesus.  That just seems so... pointless, depressing even.[/quote][/quote]

PP, I don't mean to be insulting, but you sound ambivalent at best.  Your church wasn't all "get up and praise Jesus?"  I have actually never been to a church where most of the service wasn't about praising Jesus, and I've been to Catholic services.  It seems like you almost feel like mere mention of Jesus is actually offensive or intrusive or something, and I don't think it is, even to atheists.  Jesus was open, inclusive, peaceful, and loving, unlike many (probably even most) of his followers.  This is a forum where people discuss their feelings about their bodily odors and more, so I don't think that mere mention of Jesus would have crossed some boundary or been over-sharing.  You listed like 50 reasons you like to go to church and actually believing in Jesus wasn't one of them.  I don't claim to know your innermost thoughts or beliefs anything like that, but that was weird.  [/quote]

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