Study: Young Catholics Abandoning Doctrine

Once a person becomes educated, then they begin to realize that a lot of what organized religion teaches is rather far fetched. This is why a lot of the church hierarchy discourages higher education and advancements in technology because they know darn well that we will find out the truth and thus the church loses it's drawing power. As an example, I believe the Bible has a lot of good in it, but also at the same time the Bible was written by imperfect man and their claim to have been inspired by the hand of God has never been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Further on this, as an additional example, while Jesus Christ never condemned or condoned homosexuality or even mentioned the subject, other so called prophets and Bible writers did and for all we know their condemnation of the condition may have been a result of their own bigotry and bias. If God created heterosexuals to produce, then homosexuals were created to help control overpopulation.

Agreed! Religion is scary. The more critical thinking skills one acquires, the more intelligent they become. Rational thought is the only way to improve human conditions. It frightens me that people just blindly accept things because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Isn't that how it always works? Educated people will usually move away from religion. Isn't that the problem with many muslim countries? Aren't the uneducated usually pawns in the church/mosque/whatever? Can we not get rid of all religion?

D9w, sorry charlie, but Einstein had made it clear that his use of the word "God" was not as the religious understand the term, it was more like how we understand "nature." I don't remember Einstein's explanation well enough to quote, or even paraphrase it, but I remember where it was printed, so anyone who has this book at home can look it up and, if they would be so kind as to print the quote here, then we can all see Einstein's personal view on religion. (It came from Dawkin's "The God Delusion"). However, that's not the point! Einstein was only one man, yes a very smart one, but if the purpose of the post was to say that there are smart people who don't believe in God, know that there are also smart people who do believe in God! Saying that isn't going to resolve the question of the existence of God.

At least in hell I want be harassed by Christians.

Educated people understand that the church just make this shit up! Read "The Evolution of God" By Robert Wright to see how much christianity today differs from the early church.

Scott, sorry charley, Einstein did believe in God, but not because of anything that had to do with what religion said. Ever hear the quote “"God does not play dice with the universe"?” You might want to check out this on Wiki: Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926); The Born-Einstein Letters (translated by Irene Born) (Walker and Company, New York, 1971) ISBN 0-8027-0326-7. This quote is commonly paraphrased "God does not play dice" or "God does not play dice with the universe", and other slight variants.

It comes down to whether one is a real Christian or a Paulist one: http://www.priceofliberty.com/paul.htm

In my experience, Catholics are more likely to hold political views that differ from their priests than Protestants. Many swing voters are Catholics who do not necessarily vote the way the Pope would like them to. On the contrary, Protestant congregations tend to be much more partisan. All these fucked up evangelical churches are repub across the board, and then you have many left-leaning churches whose congregants are practically all democrats. And I'm not a Catholic either, I'm just sayin...all things considered, Catholic laity strike me as having more common sense than Protestant laity.

@Nathan, that's because the survey looked at changes in views. 45% remained unchanged, 39% didn't change and 16% moved toward the Church's position. But a majority of those whose views didn't change were already in favor. The total number supporting same sex marriage is closer to 70%. The article could have made that more clear.