My point is that if everyone believed in the same God and all agreed on what He was and what He wanted, then yes, I'd have serious doubts about my lack of belief.
To be honest, I agree with much of what the Catholics hold to in regard to living a moral life, as per the catechism - with some exceptions that always seem to involve what I do in my bedroom.
But to suggest that that's all that Catholics believe is obviously wrong. You are allowed ('allowed'?) to interpret Genesis in any way you choose. And the God of Genesis is the one in which you believe. One that skipped a few billion years of evolution and formed 'Kinds' as they are now. I gave that God up not long after I realised that Atlas and Cerebus et al were stories that were meant as a metaphor for the world in which the people who told those stories found themselves and knew no better.
So out went the fundamentalist God of Genesis and I then spent not an inconsiderable amount of time checking out other versions of what He was meant to be. And ended up discounting all of them (well, maybe there's a smidgin of deism hanging around in the dark corners of my psyche).
So as I said to AV, people like yourself and AV, those with, shall we say a more literal interpretation of scripture, were responsible for my little trip down Atheism Avenue. And I would suggest, in no uncertain terms, that people like yourself are the cause of many others following the same route as I did.
So here's hoping you don't nominate another self imposed limit on the posts in this thread and you keep going. It serves a purpose that you probably wouldn't appreciate.
