{"id":1725,"date":"2018-04-04T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:19:38","slug":"can-you-be-a-good-catholic-without-believing-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/04\/can-you-be-a-good-catholic-without-believing-in-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you be a good Catholic without believing in God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1708\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1708\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-3-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Can you be a good Catholic without believing in God?\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-3-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you be a good Catholic without believing in God?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hm&#8230; it certainly stands to reason that it would be difficult to be a good Catholic per se, as you&#8217;d have to opt out of reciting the Nicene Creed. Catholicism certainly has no problem with being a good *person* and not believing in God, and faith and doubt are certainly not strangers (See Paul Tillich, <em>Dynamics of Faith<\/em>, O&#8217;Neill Library BT771 .T54). For issues of faith and doctrine, your best bet is to talk to someone at Campus Ministries: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-ministry\">bit.ly\/BC-ministry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm&#8230; it certainly stands to reason that it would be difficult to be a good Catholic per se, as you&#8217;d have to opt out of reciting the Nicene Creed. Catholicism certainly has no problem with being a good *person* and not believing in God, and faith and doubt are certainly not strangers (See Paul Tillich, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/04\/can-you-be-a-good-catholic-without-believing-in-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you be a good Catholic without believing in God?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}