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When I decided to reject my Catholicism as a teenager, I have to admit it was more to be able to play golf on Sunday morning than anything else. My justification in m own mind was that I couldn't imagine an all-powerful, all-compassionate God that would condemn a person to eternal agony for having an impure thought or eating a hot dog on Friday. Being a good guy(whatever that is) I just decided that I would be a good for nothing person for the rest of my life, that I would be good without any thought of a reward when I died, that I would be good so that other people wouldn't suffer as much and so that they and I would have more moments of happiness before they died. I decided that I could be holy without the pretend stuff, that i could be good-for nothing.
