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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)
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To: babygene
If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHO

LOL! 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)
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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
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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)
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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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