Name: Edward Tarte
Born: 1934
Location: Kingwood, TX
Label: Atheist
Former Religious Affiliation: Catholic
About me:
I was a Catholic priest for five years in the 1960s. But by reading, listening, and discussing, I came to realize that my Catholic faith did not make sense. So I left the priesthood and the Catholic Church, and became a math teacher. A few years ago I started thinking seriously about the problem of suffering in the world. This and many other considerations led me to become an atheist. I am now an active atheist, making YouTube videos. Being retired from classroom teaching, I could ‘come out’ without fear of losing my job. Many other atheists can’t prudently “come out”. But if you are an atheist and can come out without harm to yourself or others, please consider doing it. You will be helping us atheists to gain acceptance, and you will be helping the cause of truth and rational thinking.
See more of Edward’s videos here on his YouTube Channel
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I have been following Edward’s YouTube channel for about two years now. His clear style of presentation and passionate delivery make for compelling viewing. His insights as a former Catholic priest are especially resonant for me, living as I do in a largely Catholic country (Ireland).
His past association with the Church makes his opinions all the more valuable. I have followed his dealings with various religious leaders in his community with great interest, and look forward to much more to come. And now, thanks to him, I have discovered this website, which I’m looking forward to exploring more thoroughly in the coming days. Many thanks to Edward, and best wishes to We Are Atheism.
Thank you ! Seriously
Your message is clear and bright.
We need more people like you .
I’m subscribing on Youtube.
With Priests like this, and I know there are others like him, no wonder the Church is in trouble.
The miracle is that it has survived for 2000 years in spite of the traitors in its midst.
James,I was not a ‘traitor in the midst’ of the Catholic Church. As a priest, as long as I accepted the Church’s teachings, I was a good and faithful priest, doing exactly what the Church expected of me and not doing anything that would harm the Church. Once it was clear to me that its teachings did not make sense, I left the priesthood and the Catholic Church, and the Church continued on its way without me. My priesthood took place half a century ago. For the past 43 years I have been a math teacher. In lights of these facts, your comment is inaccurate and inappropriate.
A very appropriate reprise Edward. Why are Christians on this site anyway? Or whatever he is?
And all you need to do James, in order to become Atheist? Is just read the bible. That’s the fastest way to become an Atheist
I thought Atheists were all about “Free”thought?
What’s with the moderation? I can see that you could delete threatening comments and the like, but moderation IN ADVANCE is censorship, whether done by Atheists or Theists.
So far, all the comments have been fine. We are just moderating them for now until we know that people are putting up a constructive comment and not just spreading hate. We are trying to make a SAFE platform for atheists to come out. Not a platform for them to get hate speech thrown at them. Most atheists deal with that enough in their everyday lives, I’m not going to let that happen on here. Sorry if that is something people don’t enjoy but for now this is how we are going to do it.
I agree with you Amanda. I think that anything that is threatening and hateful should be taken down. Objective opinions as long as they are respectful are OK but to be hateful is not… if people do not like your work here I say they should find another web side. Just a view point from someone viewing from another window : )
Again, you are mistaken. Free thinkers are about free thought. They do not believe in God but a possible higher being. Atheists are decided that there are no gods. And you are an atheist as well. We just believe in one less god than you
Evil and suffering in the world do not prove God does not exist. We believers also suffer the exact same sufferings you atheists suffer. The difference is you have no answers, and no hope of ever finding any.
So what? Just because God is the greatest evil of all time that somehow makes him real? Thus would being the reason for the suffering? Spite there is not a single grain of evidence of his existence besides a book written by primitive men who were most likely drunk off wine most of the time? And you do realize that Christianity is sexist right? So does that sound like an all loving, all knowing god to you? Just like There is no Satan. The character of the Hebrew text in the fourteenth Chapter of Isaiah was not about a fallen angel but a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. Learn about your own religion before casting stones child. And I call you child because of your ignorance of the religion you seem to value so so dearly. If you’re defending it so purposelessly
I must say Bill O’Reilly is a pretty pompous dude
Fr. No one should condemn you. That is not our work as God said. However you need our prayers for Holy Spirit to show you some light at the end of the tunnel. I am sure you will not die an Atheist given all the Masses, prayers and graces behind you.
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