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Your rambling wasn't that long, it was actually pretty short for me because my own rambling is alot worse and I have to deal with myself every day. razz
I'm an atheist from a Catholic family too. Maybe I just have a rebellious nature or something, but when I was younger I used to go to Catholic school once a week every week after school and I never really agreed with what they were teaching and was offended when my teachers said that anyone who didn't believe in Jesus/God would go to "Hell". I basically stopped believing in God when I stopped believing in Satan Clause (when I was about seven), even though I didn't really talk about it until I was twelve. I've looked into other religions, and I think a lot of them are really interesting but I don't really believe in any of the religious stuff (like reincarnation, souls, or the prophets or Gods or rituals or whatever), I do agree with a lot of the morals though. But even though I'm atheist, I seem more religious than most people. I basically just consider the Earth and the universe to be "upper powers" because they're so much greater than we are, and if we don't respect the Earth then we're going to destroy ourselves. There are a lot of "normal" unnatural things that I don't do, and I consider driving in the rain to be blasphemy. I avoid killing things too, even bugs and plants, and because of that I also try to avoid over eating and I fast sometimes too.

There is no need for a disclaimer like this, this guild accepts anyone who is willing to respect and tolerate others.


In my experience, this is one of the arguments that starts the 'downward spiral' effect of falling out of Christianity, if you will. After this question, one generally finds a lot more; one such question that can result from this is, how can I know there is a God? And this can further spiral into the idea that a physical action being caused by a nonphysical entity is very a-logical, possibly even illogical.


My problem with this comes from acknowledging that an all knowing Creator does not necessarily control your fate by simply knowing your fate.


In my mind, this seems to go against the idea that God is benevolent and merciful. If he has these qualities and if I was never in the Garden of Eden, why am I to suffer because of Adam and Eve?


This is where you and I will greatly disagree. I am definitely no Christian, but I believe that Catholicism is one of the more truer forms of Christianity around today. And I fail to see how a person who is a good Catholic violates or even gives Christianity a bad name.

That's sort of where I sat when I was younger. Then I finally got myself educated and found a religious system that for the most part already fit what I believed. xd