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> holier-than-thou pretension

Could you elaborate? I certainly didn't mean to imply I'm any better than someone in the position I described. I'm as much guilty of sin as anyone else.

I don't think it's pretentious either to say that all have sinned in some way or another. As Solzhenitsyn writes, the line between good and evil runs right through every human heart -- all are capable of great good and great evil.



The attractive option of atheism bit.

Plenty of other reasons why someone would turn to atheism. Eg the massive occurrence/support/obfuscation of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.


Ah, understood. I didn't mean characterize atheists or conversions to atheism.

It's just that from my own frame of reference, that's the most attractive aspect of atheism.


Misinterpreted on my end, then - nothing personal!




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