Check with the cardinal newman society or you will regret it.
PFL
Don’t worry, the Pope says atheists can get to heaven too as long as they follow after “the good.”
Notice how it’s all about him? God didn’t give “me” enough proof. “I” can’t imagine a God who would reject those with the wrong belief system, etc. ad nauseaum. A fount of scholarship he ain’t.
These aren’t actually Catholic colleges. The fact that they are still allowed to remain affiliated should be considered a heresy in itself.
Here is the key line
“in my view, an unjust punishment for having the “wrong” belief”
Quite vain and arrogant isn’t it, that this pathetic, nothing (in his own worldview), just time plus matter plus chance, thinks his view means anything at all.
he asked why couldn’t God have left us better evidence of His existence
he (the student) himself is that evidence
his professor should hand him a mirror
Nothing “makes” you anything. You become what you decide and choose to be. The “world” is a whole lot less influence than you would suppose.
Respectfully disagree with this conclusion. Whenever we see societies move to control others, it is a man-made initiative. We see man's sinful nature arise as witnessed by the Nazis, communism, Islam, etc.
Christ centered societies, though not perfect, offer a clear distinction from the remainder of the world.
If you doubt this, just book a flight to North Korea and upon your landing say disparaging things about the little tyrant. You'll quickly learn what I'm talking about.
I often wonder why 22 year olds (or there abouts), think I give a crap what they think?
He should go see the movie God’s Not Dead.
I have read other accounts of even statistics regarding the outcome of people who go off to college fully believing in Creationism and after just a few college classes they are lead to believe in Evolution by secular college professors who lead their young impressionable students away from the values of their families.
These professors victimize their students as they understand that the college kids are often away from home for the first time and are for the first time experiencing freedom and responsibility. They use that as as opening and encourage their students to question all that they were taught and all their family and Christian values and plat the seed of Evolution.
I know one who became deeply confused at Boston College
He was extremely bright, complex in understanding
The consequences are not pretty
The student was interested in computer Ethics
Computers do not have ethics, People do.
One thing this article tells me is that he learned absolutely nothing.
So I guess you are saying the current Pope (a former Jesuit) is nuts. If so I’d agree.
Sorry people, Satan always has tried this type of thing, but the reason he is now more successful than ever is that sincerely faithful people have dropped the ball by their hyper-literalism and shallow “mega church” mentality. Centuries of wisdom about how to spiritually feed the flock with profound but mysterious signposts has been replaced by singing “I love you sooooo much Jesus” romance songs.
I’ve heard it said that one of the quickest ways to become an atheist is to be educated by Jesuits.
That was before the Internet began spreading bad ideas with no need for authority figures to back them up, of course.
As for examples of what a Jesuit education can do to a man’s thoughts of God, you only need to look at Voltaire or the Marquis de Sade.
It appears to me that this young man has committed a common logical error. He assumed God’s nature was a certain way, and then, when confronted with evidence that He was not like that, concluded that God didn’t exist.
Boston College stopped being respectable a long time ago. They had a course, taught by a lesbian nun, about feminism and men were not allowed to take the class because the bull dyke nun wanted to rant and rave about how evil men were and would brook no disagreement from anyone who thought maybe God didn’t screw up when he created Adam.
He not only lost his faith, he never got anywhere close to being a competent thinker. His “reasons” for not believing in God are pathetic.
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic, this navel-gazing boy and his cliché “thesis on atheism” or the FReepers trying to take the same as a serious statement on Catholicism.
Jesus says, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved. Whoever does not believe will be damned.” Mark 16:17. Unbelievers such as this young man will not be able to blame God for their eternal punishment. He made certain that this requirement has been taught by His church for millennia...or at least, it should be taught.