30-Day Blog Challenge: Day 4
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dugindeepThis is gonna be short and sweet because I've been sick with a bad stomach virus for the last two days, eating only saltines and drinking juice or Diet Sierra Mist. It's no fun, at all!
30-Day Challenge, Day 3: Your Views on Religion
I was baptized, took communion, and was confirmed in a Roman Catholic church. My parents both went to catholic school through grade school because that's what you did on the South Side of Chicago, so they continued to have us go on the chance that we decided to be committed to the church. None of us ever were. In high school, I become rather disillusioned with the church (the one we attended and the sense of church in general). My issues are mainly with the idea that people can be assholes and judge me for not going to church simply because they dedicate an hour on Sundays to being there - I'm making a sweeping generalization, I KNOW, but I did hear it from people I used to see in church. I also know of people in my parrish who were taken advantage of (monetarily, emotionally, sexually) by priests I was taught by, so I'm highly cynical of the good there.
Overall, though, I'm very much of the attitude that you don't bug me on my avoidance of religion and I'll leave you alone, too. I have a few friends who are highly religious and attend church weekly and ... we just don't talk about it. It's not a big deal between us. In fact, my two closest friends from college would go together and as they were leaving the apartment, they'd ask if I was sure I didn't want to go. I'd reply 'nah, that's cool, but say hi to God for me!' And it became a running joke, and no one was offended. I didn't mock them for their believes, and they didn't judge me for not believing.
It's a happy world when people can just be happy with the good in each other, instead of focusing on the differences :D
30-Day Challenge, Day 3: Your Views on Religion
I was baptized, took communion, and was confirmed in a Roman Catholic church. My parents both went to catholic school through grade school because that's what you did on the South Side of Chicago, so they continued to have us go on the chance that we decided to be committed to the church. None of us ever were. In high school, I become rather disillusioned with the church (the one we attended and the sense of church in general). My issues are mainly with the idea that people can be assholes and judge me for not going to church simply because they dedicate an hour on Sundays to being there - I'm making a sweeping generalization, I KNOW, but I did hear it from people I used to see in church. I also know of people in my parrish who were taken advantage of (monetarily, emotionally, sexually) by priests I was taught by, so I'm highly cynical of the good there.
Overall, though, I'm very much of the attitude that you don't bug me on my avoidance of religion and I'll leave you alone, too. I have a few friends who are highly religious and attend church weekly and ... we just don't talk about it. It's not a big deal between us. In fact, my two closest friends from college would go together and as they were leaving the apartment, they'd ask if I was sure I didn't want to go. I'd reply 'nah, that's cool, but say hi to God for me!' And it became a running joke, and no one was offended. I didn't mock them for their believes, and they didn't judge me for not believing.
It's a happy world when people can just be happy with the good in each other, instead of focusing on the differences :D
