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