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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

God: you have free will

Also God: you'd better make the choices I dictate or you'll be punished eternally in the most unimaginable hellscape possible.

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social -5 points 1 month ago

I don't believe in a spiteful god, but sure man, go off I guess.

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

This is catholicism we’re talking about.

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social -1 points 1 month ago

Catholicism teaches that God is all forgiving and loves unconditionally. For as many flaws as the Catholic Church has or has had, they've generally been the Christian denomination that's preached forgiveness the most to my knowledge. Maybe I'm wrong.

And I was talking about my beliefs growing up in the Catholic Church not Catholicism as a whole.

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, as a lapsed one myself, I believe they preach it as they need it the most, as the self proclaimed representatives of the creator of the universe would, when happening to be historical blood thirsty, wealth hoarding, human trafficking paedophile harbourers they are at their political core. Regardless, forgiveness is a necessary and helpful human value which religion did not invent, much like all of the moral arguments in apology of religion. If it works for you, thats fine. My position is also based on having grown up in it.

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