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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's see sexual abuse protected by the Catholic Church. Worst ever still awful.

Racism in the Catholic Church.

Way women are treated in the Catholic Church.

Everyone should be judged by the Catholic Church????

Abortion NO PRO CHOICE when all Catholics become medical doctors come back to me.

Babies born with sin, NO![/quote]

Ok, so the Catholic church is corrupt.  That doesn't mean there's no god.[/quote]

No, but it starts you down that path. For me, the institutional sins of Roman Catholicism -- especially the long-running, worldwide, institutionalized abuse of children and subsequent attempts to cover it up -- made it seem obvious to me that my Church was no longer in God's favor. And from there it was a much shorter path to concluding that [b]the easier explanation was that God probably doesn't exist. Which pains me every day[/b].[/quote]

You wish that God existed?  Why? What would the benefit be to you or to the world?[/quote]

At this point it's maybe going too far to say I "wish" he existed. Because I'm pretty firm in my conversion to non-belief. But I grew up fully indoctrinated in the typical ways: trust that bad people will get their due, there will be an eternal paradise where you'll get to see your departed parents and grandparents again, just follow these rules and God will provide for you, etc. That's all I meant by saying it pains me that I no longer believe. It's hard to give up the comfort that those beliefs once brought me.[/quote]

Thanks, I get it -- and think that the comforts of belief that you mention are probably what keep a lot of people believing, without examining their beliefs too deeply.[/quote]

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