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from: jacques coulardeau
re: why i want to be catholic
comments: "Due to a change in my geography I have been studying more than ever old forms and modern forms of religion. Due to a new interest in religious music and arts, because of that geographical change, I have studied these arts more than ever, and have published a fair amount about them. Last week end I was in church music concerts in an old church, oldest part 10th century.

I met this summer a phenomenal young catholic priest and yet, though I felt something like a real communion of "souls" or "spirits" or ..., I cannot get over the fact that for me God is a concept and I cannot see how God could work in any other way than a concept. I understand christian love, but it does not need God to exist. I understand many of the Christian ideas, but they can exist without God, and yet all my culture, all our culture cannot exist if there is not this corner stone called God as the basic or central or essential concept.

Is that what you mean in your text? I feel something but I feel the concept of agnosticism and I must say I have never understood that concept nor that of atheism. For me God is a concept but this concept is essential. I have found it in so many cultures and as soon as a culture, like ours, has that concept it stands up, otherwise it does not. For me atheists have a concept of non-god which is just the same. Agnostists have a concept too that is "spirit" or ..., and without that spiritual central concept they cannot function. People who are just indifferent on that question are dangerous and can become hateful fascists, stalinists or terrorists, in spite of all that people have been saying lately about the third category. For me terrorists are people who do not have any spiritual concept as the core of their thinking.

This question is becoming for me a life and death question. I mean life and death. There is no existence without this central spiritual concept, call it God or anything else it does not matter. It exists, in our minds, heads, and reality since our reality is also our minds and our heads and our science and our thoughts, etc.