Catholicism

Thought i would tackle this coz of something that's happened in the past few hours.



I awoke to my dad saying that we're all going to mass.
How nice of him to just demand it.

So i told him everyone else can go but i don't want to and he said we're all going and that's that.


Sorry. I'm afraid you can't force me to go somewhere i don't want to go and you really can't physically take me.



So he got all angry and i said to mum i didn't want to go and she was fine with that, she said i can do some study instead (which i will do after this post)

And with that mum jokingly said, "Ok we're away to pray"

And dad said, seriously "For your soul"


=)

How nice of them!



Anyway the point of this was to talk about Catholicism and i will.


I was born and raised Catholic. I was baptised, went to Confession, made my First Holy Communion and all that.
But in recent years religion has just not interested me at all, in fact i'll go as far to say it's pointless.

And yes, this also ties in with me realising i was gay in the past few years.
It's condemned by Roman Catholics and i don't want to follow a religion where i can't be accepted.

If they don't want to accept me, why should i accept them?


The truth is i don't think i should.


And don't get me started on the Bible lol.

We had an assignment in RE the other day and we had to read the first chapter of Genesis (creation of the world)

And i was reading it thinking, "What drugs was the author of this on!?"

I know there is no real author but stuff like, God breathed life-giving breath into Adam's nose.....

That sounds like it came straght out of any old fairytale story.

....and the river Pishon lol

Steven had a laugh at that.

And of course, we were talking about the Bible and he said, "At least they got one thing right"
You know what he was talking about.

Blah, blah homosexuality is wrong etc etc.

So then i took this as the perfect time to introduce my adultery remark.
"The Bible also says adultery is wrong"

He stammered with a blank expression and defeatedly said, "Well, come on, we've got to agree to disagree here"

Pah. 1-0 to Rowan!

Haha.

But then the girl next to me, she's nice and easy to get along with, said, "Why have you got such a big problem with homosexuality?" to Steven and he just replied it's coz of the way he was raised.

She asked me what i thought, and without giving too much away i just said i don't see a problem with it, why should there be a problem?

Steven just gave me another blank look and went onto tell us about a certain family relation of his.


His cousin.


He is gay.


How about that!

That's karma. He hates gay people but his cousin is gay.


"No cousin of mine" Steven said.

And he told us a saddening story about his gran telling this cousin to burn in hell when she was on her deathbed.

Wow.

That's rather extreme.


Drifting away from Catholism now but thought that little bit might be of interest.

So, as i write this, everyone else is away in church "praying for my soul"

I remember the last time i went to church and i started laughing, really loudly when people started singing hymns.

100+ people droning away to meaningless words on a page, while the priest stands up the front in his funny white robe thing, watching.

Standing there it seemed like some sort of cult.
I just thought it was funny.


Does it sound like i'm putting Christianity down here?

It probably does but i'm not meaning to, be Christian if you want, i just choose not to be.

In reality, i consider myself Agnostic.

I won't go into it but if you're really interested then Wikipedia knows all :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism



Existence of God is a deep and interesting topic as well, maybe too much for now, but it's something else i find myself questioning alot and Agnosticism sort of covers this as well, so i refer to Wikipedia again.


I better call that a wrap.

I'll need to get started on some work before everyone comes back from their cult =P

KO.


But lastly, this is what i thought when mum said i didn't have to go this morning.

Just to say, i'm sure my family all believe i'm Catholic, although it has never been put forward to me by them.

It would be my dad if anyone that would ask.

But this is what i thought :

If my dad would be annoyed with me for not going to Church/following Catholism,

I wonder what his reaction would be if he found out i was gay.....

:-O



Cheers,
Rowan

Past couple o' days

Sorry, i haven't posted since Friday i think it was...

I've been getting my new room squared up :)

That's right...new room!!!


We actually went ahead with it, it took most of Sunday but here we are now.
Fair play to my mum lol.

The room isn't exactly how i want it at the moment but i think it will be tweaked a little at the weekend.



The past couple of days are a complete contrast to how i was feeling on my last post.
I feel a like i have a lot more space now.

It's not just the room that's done that for me but...

*drum roll*

I bought Steven's "old" ipod touch off him :D
He got an iphone for Christmas and offered me his for just 70 quid.
I didn't give him the full 70, but 20 and i'll pay him fully as i gradually get more money, coz i don't really get much.
But he's fine with it and said i can take my time over it.

That's what strange with him.
One second he can be the biggest bigot, homophobe whatever and the next he is all nice and friendly and loyal....
Strange one.

Anyway, i am now free to browse the web as i want.
Just a simple delete history, cache and cookies in Safari on the ipod and it's wiped.
Unlike the computer here where it gets stored in Temp Files or whatever.

So....porn at any time of the day! :P


But i won't blog from it, that would be a pain, i'll blog with a proper keyboard. ;)


The past couple of days then, in school.

Quite busy.
Loads of preparation for Prelims (beginning on the 25th)

Got practice writing prelims as well in French and Spanish.
French on Friday, Spanish on Monday.

Spanish is a toughy.
Speaking exam tomorrow but i know it pretty well.
And then for celebration....Wolfmother!!! Yay!!!

I have to wait until 1:20pm tho, so i'll be a nervous wreak by then lol.
But it should be alright.

So, trying to do the french writing practice will be rather meh but i'll use the Spanish exam as an excuse. And to be fair, it is fairly valid.

But the homework is piling up.

According to my guidance teacher we should be doing 3 hours during the week and 5 at the weekend.
I'm sorry, but i need a life and he's an arse.

I probably do about half of that and it's sufficient enough i would say.
I'm not failing anything so there we are.

Also, i attended my first Supported Study class today.
It's like an after school class thing.
But unlike most where it's optional this one was mandatory.

And what subject was it?

Yep, Spanish :P

I didn't go to last weeks class so she demanded i go to this one.

Bah, i don't like her but she does get results out of you



Thanks for all your comments on my last post.
And just to answer one question that has been asked - My brother is 13.

I'm sorry but a lot of 13 year olds are idiots.

I would certainly say i was.
I was just a moody brat a few years ago and my brother seems like that most of the time.

Anyway, as i said, a lot 13 year olds are. Not all.
Quite a number are very mature but with my brother around i don't see it.


Lastly,
I watched a very interesting "movie" recently.

It's a short Northern Irish film called James. It's about a 12/13 year old dealing with his sexuality and it's only 17 mins long so if you're interested check it out.

http://www.btn101.com/video/3882/James

BTW, when i watched it, i found it to be out of sync a little but it's nothing major.


Actually, that wasn't the last thing i was going to talk about.
Speaking of Northern Ireland i thought i would mention Iris Robinson.

The mad woman.

I was listening to a radio programme speaking about the whole controversy and whether or ot we should have sympathy for her.

I don't.


She's in deep therapy or something now.
But she got what was coming to her in my opinion.

She's such a hypocrite.

Firstly, she condemns homosexuality saying "The bible condemns it and it is an abomination"
Then she goes and has an affair....which is also condemned in the bible.


I have no sympathy for her whatsoever, she should learn to keep her big trap shut. The loony.


Anyhoo, i'll post again probably on Friday and let you know about Spanish, the concert etc.

Cheers everyone,
Rowan


P.S Thanks YouTubeBoys for following me. I linked ya. :P