Graduation presents: God snuck his way back into my life again.

[soundsoft_elvy]

I'm cleaning up my room when I find the gifts that my mother's friend, Katrina, gave to me for graduation. A little money, and two inspirational quote books for the graduating female soul

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[critical_vision]

I totally agree with your point of view.

I was raised to be a strict roman-catholic. Even as far as going to Youth Religious Education for 12 YEARS! But once I got into college and started getting out more into the world, I found myself totally disillusioned to the idea of even having a faith or religion.

If you belong to a faith and it works for you, more power to you...but I'd rather find myself before I go look into finding invisible people supposedly living in the sky.

My two cents...heheh.

[soundsoft_elvy]

Yeah...I had to do the whole Catechism thing too for most of my life. Although after a certain point in time, my mom said that it was my choice whether or not I wanted to go through and complete Confirmaion. She had pretty much given up going to church and would support me with whatever decision I made.

I decided to complete Confirmation. Because I wanted to make sure that I gave it my best shot in trying to understand the faith of my upbringing. When I finally completed it, I decided that this truly wasn't my personal faith.

[railstar]

I'm a "recovering Catholic". My mother used to be Catholic. My sister and I were both raised under a catholic belief system. We did the whole first communion thing, went to Sunday school when we were tots. Heck, I was even an altar boy for a while. During high school, however, my outlook began to change. Modern Catholisim is more about politics than faith. The final straw was when my widowed mother wanted to re-marry during my junior year of high school. The local head of the Catholic church outright refused to marry her to my current step-father. She stopped attending mass after that and neither me or my sister chose to be Confirmed. I don't hate Catholics, but I am definately not a big fan of organized religions that put outdated doctrine and politics before human considerations. I totally grok where you are coming from.

[akiotena]

I hear ya, sweetie.

I wasn't raised as a Roman Catholic, despite my entire family being such. Mom kind of let me figure it out on my own, and I'm grateful for that. I get kind of the same way when I read the inspirational stuff, it makes me laugh more than feel inspired. XD

w00t for us Pagans. Oh, and if you want to know more about the whole Pagans vs. Catholics thing, you ought to read The Da Vinci Code... so eye-opening. And I believe most of it is true. ^^

[bridgetlover]

Ahh, I know what you mean kind of. My parents are both Catholics, and one of my best friends is Prodestant. I've always been "assumed" when around them, which quite annoys me, since I'm agnostic. Not to mention, I grew up with some experience in catholic school, where they brought the "fear" into me or whatever, by letting me know whatever I "dident" and "did" do would make me end up in hell

[rurouni_zaku]

I'm not Catholic so I won't try to defend a faith I know little about, but I will say that I've taken my parents' Christian religon and follow it as more a philosophy than anything else. I find myself in church on Sundays not because I'm supposed to or I'm going to burn in Hell, but for the same reason Chow Yun-Fat's charachter in The Killer hung out in churchs, because I find it peaceful. I agree that forceably trying to make someone believe your point of view is not the way to go about things, but some people just have to be right; and it hasn't killed me yet to ket them believe what they want and I believe what I want.

Just remeber, if it weren't for Catholisism we wouldn't have Eva or Dogma.