Posted on 09/06/2016 3:57:16 PM PDT by NYer
Stunning! Look around you and ask yourself ... “where did this come from”? It’s so simple. If not God, then what created the universe.
God created the universe and everything in it, including all the scientific laws that scientists are discovering.
I didn’t leave Catholicism, because I never belonged. Yes, at age 10 my mother forced me to go to a catholic church where a child molester jammed a cracker down my throat along with some wine while babbling a bunch of nonsense in an extinct language. Yet there are those, including a rabidly catholic brother in law, who think this makes me a catholic for life. Wrong. I am no more catholic than a Jew or a moslem is. I didn’t choose Catholicism and I never wanted any part of it. Therefore, I never left it. It may have been my mother’s religion, but it was never mine. And catholics need to get over it. I want no part of their church. I never have and I never will.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
lol
If there's a clock,there's a clock maker.
Schools. The evil one has been hard at work in the schools.
You conflate Catholicism with Christianity.
The proper question is what did Jesus mean when he said when He said (paraphrasing): Kephas Petras
Yup,that's what smug "progressive" atheists call God.
Ya, science is going to teach these kids all about morality.
Since when do 10 year olds get a vote on whether to go to church or not?
How are they allowed to leave while still living with their parents? After they leave home I could see it and understand completely.
“before the age of 10 – and their reasons are deeper than being “bored at Mass,” the author of a new report claims.
“Those that are leaving for no religion – and a pretty big component of them saying they are atheist or agnostic”
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I doubt many kids 10 and under even know what “atheist” or “agnostic” means. I’ll go with Occam here, church is usually boring for kids.
Re : #3 ~ “Why Catholics are leaving the faith by age 10”
Is the answer because at 11 they’ll be called upon to be altar boys? ~
NOT funny, you should be ashamed of yourself...
The church can do some but the primary opportunity is the parents’. The article says even a once - weekly faith- related activity makes a significant difference for the kids. It’s the parents that can provide or at least enable this for their nice little Porto- atheist rug rats.
That’s what I wonder too. 10 year olds are not going to say they are leaving a church, without parents involvement and approval.
“Since when do 10 year olds get a vote on whether to go to church or not?”
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Yup. Tho my family wasn’t really church-going, when they did go you couldn’t opt out.
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