The Hindustan times reports that Keira Knightley regrets being atheist. The article reads …
Actor Keira Knightley, a self-confessed atheist, says she is desperate to be Catholic because she would “just get to ask for forgiveness”. “It sounds much better than having to live with guilt. It’s absolutely extraordinary. If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything,”
And yes … some smart hack has simply taken her valid criticism of some catholic beliefs and turned it around to get a good headline. It is not a unique example, I also found this variation in another Indian paper …
Keira Knightley wants to become Catholic
These are both hilarious examples of some very opportunistic journalism.
The point Keira is making is also a very interesting one, for it is also turing the coin over to see the other side. How many times have you listened to believers telling you that they hold the high moral ground and that without belief atheists have no morals and can do whatever they wish. To use the old cliché, if only I had a penny for every instance of hearing something like that, I could … well you get the idea.
Her observation is that it is the believers who have a “do-whatever-you-like” option. If you do something wrong, no problem, just ask for forgiveness and your conscience is clear. In stark contrast, non-belief means that you need to come to terms with the consequences of your own actions, there is no magic forgive-and-forget option to tap into.
All you have done is quote a 2000 year old book written by bronze age goat herders
You really need to understand that to an atheist who has read your “magic book” from cover to cover and rejected it on moral grounds that’s akin to you quoting mien kamph and expecting it to convince anyone your right
Atheist don’t want to believe in God because they like to sin,they can do whatever they want and no one will judge them….people who believe in God are afraid of him to sin because they don’t want to go to hell.A murderer,a rapist,a thief or a person who commits adultery clearly do not believe in God because he/she doesn’t know what it is to be a christian or believe in God hence he/she is a atheist
Atheist only know how to judge people and even though there’s proof that God exists and Jesus died for our sins they don’t want to believe because it’ll make them lose there lavish lifestyle,their own philosophy and the rules they tell themselves
What Keira Knightley is telling here is actually the other way around….it’s not easy to be forgiven like how atheist think,a sin is a sin and no matter how good you are you’ll go to hell.But atheist can sin all they want because they don’t believe in God or Hell it’s just the guilt which will go away with drugs and alcohol because only the bible tells taking drugs and alcohol is wrong and they don’t give rat’sass about that
I can grasp that you might believe all of this, but none of what you have written is true at all.
I’d recommend finding some people who do not believe and attempt to have a meaningful conversation with them about it all.
GOD IS REAL AND YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT HIM IN YOUR HEART! PEOPLE LIKE MS KNIGHTLY ARE BLIND. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM. GOD IS REAL AND HIS SON IS JESUS. HE DIED FOR US AND WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH US. PLEASE JUST SEEK HIM AND YOU WILL FIND HIM. HUMBLE YOURSELVES BEFORE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS INCLUDING US. THE LORD WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. THIS IS NO FAIRY TALE STORY. JESUS IS REAL AND WILL RETURN IN GLORY ONE DAY TO THE HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE AS KING OF THIS WORL. SATAN RUNS THIS WORLD RIGHT NOW AND THE IS WHY IT SUCKS. JESUS WILL BRING US TO THE NEW WORLD, HEAVEN. TO LIVE UNDER HIS REIGN AND HIS WAYS. SATAN HATES WE HUMANS BECAUSE GOD LOVES US SO MUCH AND HE KNOWS THE PLANS GOD HAS FOR US. WE ARE TO JUDGE ANGELS ONE DAY! SATAN DESPISES US, YET MANY CHOOSE TO DENY GOD AND FOLLOW HIM WHETHER THEY KNOW THEY ARE OR NOT. BELIEVING THERE IS NO GOD IS THE SAME THING AS BELIEVING IN SATAN, HE IS THE ONE WHO PUTS THAT DOUBT INTO YOUR HEART. GOD IS REAL AND SEEK HIM. HE WANTS TO KNOW YOU. PLEASE GIVE THE LORD A CHANCE TO REDEEM YOU. HE WILL CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE OUTOOK ON LIFE AND WHY WE ARE HERE AND WHAT IS TO COME IN HIS PLANS. READ HIS WORD AND PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS AND UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM. HE IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NOBODY GOES TO THE FATHER WITHOUT JESUS CHRIST. PLEASE ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE HUMBLED BEFORE ALMIGHTY GOD AND ACCEPT HIM. HE WISHES FOR ALL CREATION TO BE WITH HIM IN HEAVEN BUT HE KNOWS THAT THE DEVIL WILL DECEIVE SOME OF US AND STEAL THEM AWAY. DON’T BE STUPID, LOOK AROUND, LOOK AT ALL GOD HAS CREED A. HE HAS PROVEN HIMSELF AND SHOWN HIS POWER BY ALL HE HAS CREATED. HE IS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, HE IS THE BEGINNING ND THE END AND HE IS THE ONE TRUE GOD…AND HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE HE HAS CREATED EVER! HE LOVES U SO MUCH THAT HE SENT HIMSELF IN THE FLESH OF A HUMAN BEING AND HAD HIS SON KILLED FOR US SO THAT WE MAY GET TO BE WITH HIM IN HIS PRESENCE ONE DAY WHEN JESUS RETURNS IN GLORY. WHEN HE RETURNS WE ALSO GET GLORIFIED. WE BICOME HOLY BEINGS LIKE GOD. WE ARE PART OF HIS FAMILY AND INHERIT ALL THINGS. ACCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND FEAR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. ASK FOR WISDOM AND UNDERSTWNDING AND SEEK HIM AND ND HIS KINGDOM. HIS WAY IS THE TRUE LIFE AND HE WILL ALWAYS LEAD YOU INTO RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE NEVER FAILS. DO NOT QUESTION THE LORD AND HIS WAYS. WE WERE ALL BORN AND WE ALL WILL DIE WHEN HE SAYS SO. FROM DUST WE WERE CREATED AND TO DUST WE SHALL RETURN. DO NOT QUESTION THE LORD AND WHY HE DOES THINGS. HE IS GOD. WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HIM? WHAT MAN CAN GRASP THE ENORMITY OF OUR LORD? PLEASE PUT YOUR FAITH IN GOD AND ACCEPT HIS GRACE. WE LOVE YOU LORD JESUS AND THE SACRIFICES YIU HAVE MADE FOR US ON THE CROSS! WE AWAIT THE DAY WHEN WE WILL BE WITH YOU IN GOORY! WE PRAISE YOU LORD FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE AND FOR GIVING US LIFE! ALL PRAISE TO YOU LORD GOD AND WE ASK FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SON JESUS. AMEN!
Rob … your caps lock key is broken, it appears to be stuck in the “NUTTER” position. I stopped reading after 4 words.
And wow I did not realize that that was so long until I had posted it, sorry!
Being a christian means saved by grace by Jesus Christ who died to save us from our sins so that we can live for Him and help bring other’s to His marvelous redemption. I can’t say this about all christians but I may as well say this for me, I respect atheists and all other non christian groups as human beings and I for one try to follow the do-unto-others rule by not shoving my faith down other people’s throats in an obnoxious way.
That you think we ask for forgiveness to make ourselves feel better is not exactly true, it does make us feel a little better, but we ask God for forgiveness so that He can wipe that sin off our record. That also does not mean that we don’t feel guilty or that we don’t try to make things better, we do. Our sins are not somthing we’re proud about or like bragging that we’re forgiven about either. Our sin and faults are a part of us just as much as they are a part of anyone else but God helps us to over come them, eventualy. I happen to agree that having a Creator does make more sense than a really big explosion but I suppose that you probably think the same thing about our beleif. And yes, we as christians or at least I myself know that even if you aren’t a christian most people do live by a certain standard of morals and we do respect that. That’s not what we’re trying to contradict. But to say it bluntly we believe that without Christ even if we are good people there is no reward in the end.
But I do hope that nothing that I have said has offended anyone here and maybe I have shown a little more light on christianity to help you to understand what we beleive. Please remember though that Jesus loves you all weather you beleive in Him or not and that He is always there for You!
The point is, it is clear that miss Knightley does not understand too much of what being catholic means.
Yes. Because she’s an atheist. And it’s just the same when Catholics don’t understand the atheists’ logic. No matter how you twist it, asking for forgiveness from God is kind of a way to make yourself feel better about your misdeeds, and a way to wipe your proverbial slate clean so the guilt doesn’t get to you.
Why would I hate something that’s a figment of you imagination? I’m sure you familiar with your old saying, “hate the sin, not the sinner.” ;)
“No two persons can agree on the definition of what means to be a “christian”. ”
Sure they can. It’s quite clearly defined by Christ himself. It’s an ongoing process, but there’s very little ambiguity in it.
As a Christian, I can tell you we do not have a “do whatever you want” philosophy and get away with it by confessing our sins to God. When we sin against God, we do confess our sins to Him, but we still have to deal with the consequences of our sin. For example: we say something mean to someone and hurt them. We know it’s wrong but did it in a moment of anger. It’s still a sin. We may confess it to God buy may feel guilty and bad about doing it for a long time to come. One’s conscience is never “clear” because we admit and confess the sin to our Lord.
“As a Christian…”, is that statement suppose to make you some authority on this man made mythology? Aren’t you aware that what a christian is to you, may not be the same to another person? No two persons can agree on the definition of what means to be a “christian”. Your argument is folly.
I didn’t say I was an authority on Christianity. As usual, another atheist who hates my God, even though he/she doesn’t believe a God exists, is taking my words out of context. And yes, Christians can agree on what it is to be a Christian. Confessing sin and forgiveness is pretty cut and dry. Your belief that everything came from nothing, or a big explosion is harder to believe than a supreme being making everything. Talk about folly!
Mary, atheists don’t believe in your god or anyone else’s. You choose to interpret that as “hatred” but please consider: When you learned that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny weren’t real, did you start “hating” them or simply stop believing in them? That’s how it works. I’m glad to have the opportunity to clear this up for you.
Let me clarify for you Trey. You and Miss Knightly are ignorant of the purpose of confession an revel in your ignorance. Like most non-Catholics you have twisted the meaning of confession and absolution to satisfy your own prejudices. As a CATHOLIC I am NOT allowed to “do whatever” I want because of confession and forgiveness. The Purpose of Confession:
Reconciling of man to God is the purpose of Confession. When we sin, we deprive ourselves of God’s grace. And by doing so, we make it even easier to sin some more. The only way out of this downward cycle is to acknowledge our sins, TO REPENT OF THEM, and to ask God’s forgiveness. In the Sacrament of Confession, grace can be restored to our souls, and we can once again resist sin.
Actually th real purpose of forgiveness is to make you feel better. It means nothing. Just like your bull crap religion.
Clearly she has a misconstrued take on atheism.
“Clearly she has a misconstrued take on atheism.”
Atheism is about not believing in the concept of religion. Something she doesn’t believe in. I don’t think she’s the problem. You’re just an invalid.
Atheism is NOT believing in god or any religion. She doesn’t. Seems like she gets it pretty well.
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