No 
- While I was still Catholic, trying to be “orthodox”, & trying to believe all the poppycock & propaganda lies of Catholicism, I was very “angry” & “miserable”. But now ? Not a bit of it. You Catholocs can keep your Father Ped O’Philes, your Jew-hating ultra-trads, your ever-so-Catholic Holocaust deniers, lying bishops, boigus apparitions & all your other criminals & maniacs to yourselves. You’re welcome to them.
I wish that all Christians and especially Catholics could see this and see how their, how our, sinfulness has negatively effected a soul to the point where it has utterly rejected God and can see only the sin and never the good that comes from the Church.
I pray that every Christian believer who reads your paragraph above will redouble their efforts to live as Christ taught so that others, and perhaps even yourself, will be able to see the promise and evidence of God in a new light.
What, you want to believe in an Invisible Super-Friend who does nothing, explains nothing, & fulfils no function but that of a Holy (Holey?) Comfort-Blanket, even though there is as much evidence for the Invisible Super-Friend’s eternity & omnipotence, etc., as for the eternity & omnipotence of a cup of coffee ? At least one can drink the coffee - but your God, what good is he to anyone ? None.
If God were as you describe, then I would not believe in him either. This is why I reject the idea of the remote and disinterested God that some proclaim. Fortunately God is much more loving than that. He near to all, and lives in those who seek him in rightious and holy ways. I have testimony of such love in my life personally.
Isn’t it morally better and more adult to “put away childish things” such as the Invisible Super-Friend, seeing as there is no good reason to imagine it has any reality ?
What you define as “good reason” is obviously different than what I would define it as.
No I don’t think that it is somehow morally superior to “put away” God as a “childish thing”. Without the moral absolutes of God, we are left with moral relativism.
What I see is that those who utterly reject God, or at least a supreme being concept, are limiting themselves much more than those who accept God in concept, or at least admit the possibility.
My belief in an, to use your words, “Invisible Super Friend”, has absolutely zero effect on you personally so why should you or any other non-believer, feel the need to come to this web-site and try to undermine the beliefs of believers? That was the point of the OP.
Or are we suppose to believe the lies & nonsense that pass for Christian theism ? It’s wrong to lie - so how can it be right to believe what one has no reason to think is anything else ?
It appears that you have looked at Christianity and, after seeing both the good and the bad, given great weight to the negative while giving little weight to anything positive. Perhaps negativity has been your experience and for that I am sorry. But such a view point is no more valid than one that closes their eyes to the sins of people in the Church.
We could easily look at secular society and see the same good and bad sprinkled throughout. Our culture and systems today are riddled with those who break every form of law from murder to cheating on taxes to speeding on the highway. This same secular society raises great amounts of money for charity, seeks to releive suffering and other works of love.
Since there is much “sin” in our society does that make the principles and ideals upon which the culture is based wrong? Of course not. It only proves that we need laws and courts and rules. Further, we can show that laws and courts are not always just or applied fairly, but again that does not undercut the ideals upon which they are based.
You reject God, at least partly, because of the sins of those in the Church. Should you not also reject the ideals of our country and culture because of the sins of those who break the laws?
When your Loving Saviour who never saves anything or anyone - it’s difficult to do, if one does not even exist - bothers to do so, & can be demonstrated to have done so, very frequently, and can be shown to be at work so that only the LS acts, so that chance can be absolutely excluded - when you can show there is a LS who fits his billing (which you can’t do, so don’t bother trying), when all that is done, I might just possibly be able to take your non-saving Saviour God as something that could exist. But only then - not before.
In the above you show how you are shouting “SHOW ME” through a locked, bolted and barricaded door.
It is sad that your world is so narrowly defined. but I guess if you are happy that way…
As your God has frequently let his own chosen people be slaughtered in their thousands & millions, salvation is obviously not something he is good at. Why so incompetent a deity is called a Saviour, & an Almighty Saviour at that, is anyone’s guess. So you lose already. Sorry.
This only demonstrates a world view that cannot see beyond the end of ones own nose. Have you not read that, those who believe, even though they die, yet shall they live, and fear not the one who can kill the body but can do no more…?
You place limits upon salvation because you cannot raise your eyes past this world, and past the sins of others. It is sad that you limit yourself so much, and it is sad that the example of other believers has helped to push you to this point. Of course it is only the examples of sin that you give any real weight to - and that is even sadder still.
Personally I will happily be God’s “loser” when I can only see the alternative as riding on a train of hopelessness in blissful, and self imposed, ignorance down to the grave.
Peace
James
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