I need help /his/ >thinking about converting to Catholicism

>>1522469
Become an Anglo-Catholic. None of it is true so just do what feels right.

>tfw think the concept of a god existing is foolish but want the moral stability and experience of being religious
>considering becoming Catholic

What do

>>1522499

Kind of the modern dilemma isn't it?

>>1522503
Is there a sect of Christianity that focuses on Jesus's teachings without taking the existence of God literally?

>>1522507

Pretty much any liberal denomination at this point- Anglicanism, episcopal, etc

>>1522507
Yes.

Read up on Leo Tolstoy's beliefs.

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/tolstoy/chrisanar.htm

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>>1522507

Christian atheism, the Jefferson Bible, the Q source.

You could just make your own version of Christianity where "God" is supposed to mean nature and the "Apocalypse" means "the bad stuff that happens when you don't behave"

>>1522523
A rationalistic Christianity
At the same time, his understanding of Christianity was not without problems. He may have been right in drawing attention to a neglected dimension of the Bible, but his interpretation of the metaphysics behind it remains unacceptable to many Christians today. Why? Because in his urge to purge what he saw as a corrupted version of Jesus’ teaching, Tolstoy imposed a very rationalistic approach to Christianity, one that does away with all mysteries, rituals or traditions.
In his search for the meaning of life, Tolstoy’s only torch was the light of nineteenth-century reason. If he was won over by Jesus’ message, it was because he came to believe that Jesus was simply the most rational but human teacher ever to have walked the planet – not some incredible ‘son of God’ whose body was resurrected and actually flew back into heaven. Tolstoy believed that traditional mysteries such as Jesus’ divinity, Mary’s virginity, miracles and resurrections were either total nonsense or could be rationalised away.
For him, the Bible was peppered with implausible superstitions designed to divert the reader’s attention away from the rational teachings now hidden within it. This is why Tolstoy actually rewrote the gospel (only a summary of which has been translated into English): he eliminated all irrational additives, harmonised any conflicting accounts, and rearranged Jesus’ life in a logical chronological narrative. In this gospel according to Tolstoy, there are no supernatural wonders, the light of reason features prominently, and the text ends when Jesus dies on the Cross – so no fancy resurrection in this version.

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>>1522527
Tolstoy thus reduced religion to morality, and for him the most eloquent moral code ever articulated by a human being was Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. He suspected all theological mysteries and dogmas to have been added by deceitful state or church authorities. So he warned that one must read both the Bible and theological pronouncements on it very cautiously, filtering every proposition through the invaluable test of reason.
Hence he never believed in life after death. What appeased his earlier existential restlessness is difficult to understand, let alone describe, because he does not actually explain it very well. But it has something to do with the realisation that there is something infinite beyond the finite, and that ‘faith’ in this grants knowledge of the meaning of life. What that ‘infinite’ is, however, remains obscure. It seems to be closely related to both reason and love, but this is left unclear in his writings.
Still, the point is that he did find some sort of ‘meaning of life’ in his rationalistic understanding of Christianity. He could now see a purpose in life, which was to strive to live up to Jesus’ teaching, to respond to all evil by overcoming it through the contagious power of love. This, he thought, would be the only way to achieve further progress in human relations.
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>>1522531
Tolstoy, Leo:
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
A Confession and the Gospel in Brief
Essays from Tula
The Kingdom of God is in You and Peace Essays
On Life and Essays on Religion. Translated
What I Believe

4/4

christian morals whether orthodox or otherwise create this massive fuckoff vacuum that violence just magnetizes too its rediculous.

like the strong (violent) naturally prey on the weak (pacifist) or some shits bananas

>enter atheistic state arguement

atheistic socialist state /w a communist central bank*