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Originally Posted by Fluff
You can identity as a Christian and be atheist.
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I don't identify as a Christian, I just am one. Not by choice.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Unless you're currently practicing, you're neither a Christian nor a Catholic. Saying that you were raised as such is fine, but if you're an atheist, that makes you an apostate.
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I pretty much stopped going to mass once I realised I could (and my mother was surprisingly understanding about it, though I always feel she was more than a little disappointed I took that stance) and though I like to think that both she and my aunt are now in a better place, when I visit her grave I do so for Karen: I personally get nothing out of it spiritually.
Bolded: does that mean I have cancer?
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It's a pretty old discussion that I bet we've both had several times, but atheism is the less arrogant choice of the two if you're going off of evidence alone. Most notions of a god don't restrict it to the afterlife, either.
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Maybe I'm just keeping my options open. As Ben Elton says, I keep just a tiny bit of belief there
just in case ... (hammering at the gates) "Let me in you bastards! I believe!"
I once wrote a story, based off a dream I had, called "Beggar at the Gates", where I died and was not let into Heaven cos I didn't believe. My mother was trying to intercede with God, who said I could come in if I believed. But I saw nothing in front of me (you only see Heaven if you Believe, apparently) and refused. What a bastard, that God, huh?