To: jennyp
If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHO
6 posted on
11/17/2005 11:56:36 PM PST by
babygene
(Viable after 87 trimesters)
To: babygene
If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHOLOL! Well, I was confirmed. So perhaps technically that makes me merely AWOL.
9 posted on
11/18/2005 12:13:14 AM PST by
jennyp
(WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
To: babygene
"If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHO" Not a very Christian thing for you to say, unprovoked.
16 posted on
11/18/2005 5:58:35 AM PST by
elfman2
To: babygene; jennyp
Baptism actually effects an ontological change, hence the saying "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." jennyp can always just wander back to the confessional tomorrow.
23 posted on
11/18/2005 10:18:48 AM PST by
Dumb_Ox
(Hoc ad delectationem stultorum scriptus est)
To: babygene
If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHO
Would you generalize that and say that there are no former Catholics, as if you ever leave the church you were never really a Catholic to begin with?
24 posted on
11/18/2005 10:22:02 AM PST by
BikerNYC
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
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