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I'll tend to bet, therefore, on an atheist who is ready to die for a truth as best he can understand it over a Catholic who thinks he's tamed God and made Him safe. The atheist may wake up one day and finally know who the Truth was whom he sought and to whom he committed himself. The Catholic may pull himself out of the cold water and, leaving others to drown, start looking for a way to buy God off, and when the skies do not crack and reveal his poltroonery and selfishness he may conclude he succeeded.

This near Atheist believes that you have a severe case of hubris. Who are you to criticize anyone who seeks the metaphysical or the lack thereof in good faith, and while so seeking, tries to do right while on this mortal coil, as beest they can? I recoil from you sentiments. They just strike me as so wrong, at a gut level. JMO.

Did you read what I wrote? WHERE did I criticize anyone who seeks the metaphysical or the lack thereof in good faith, and while so seeking, tries to do right while on this mortal coil, as beest they can? I thought I did just the opposite! What IS it about religious conversations on Free Republic? I don't get this. I just said that an atheist could well (indeed, almost certainly) be a better person than I AND that from mky theistic point of view God would, so to speak, honor the sincere devotion of the atheist to the truth. I said, in essence that I'd put my money on a sincere atheist in preference to a Teddy-the-Hutt type Catholic. And you respond like that? You just go ahead and recoil. Enjoy it.