Will_Newsome comments on Request for input: draft of my "coming out" statement on religious deconversion - Less Wrong
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I'm not actually Catholic, only a prospective Catholic, and it's very possible that I'll never get around to actually getting confirmed; it seems like it would be consenting to the categorical rule of propping up institutions even when you're still rather unsure of how good they are compared to how good you should have expected them to be. I grew up agnostic and at some point identified as atheist, only converting to theism and gaining interest in religions besides Theravada Buddhism after I became a postrationalist one or two years ago; I haven't had enough time since then to come to any firm conclusions about the justification or lack thereof for converting to a particular religion.
Oh, gosh. Um.
Those are what stand out to me as the most obvious possible points of agreement or disagreement with Catholic doctrine as straightforwardly interpreted, but I might've missed some big stuff.
Have you talked about any of these ideas with any actual high rationality Catholics?
Somehow I get the impression that they wouldn't agree with your interpretation.
Any of them? How familiar are you with the more philosophically apt and open-minded Church authorities? Are there so few that it'd be impossible to get even a little traction? (I'm thinking a few years down the line when the "save the world" memeplex is better established.)
As far as Catholics you might be interested in talking to, there's John C. Wright. I assume you are familiar with his background.