Post-Breakfast Pre-Lunch Update.

[bluntedge]

Methinks I am on the internet far too much and hitting the books and MS Word far too little. But ah, philosophy! It is so hard! I can't digest it properly! I cannot formulate criticisms and logical arguments for an essay! Cannot think like a philosopher

Comments

[in_excelsis_dea]

See, that's why I'm glad I'm not Catholic. My great-grandmother and my mother actually had quite a fight about it when I was a baby, because my mother refused to get married in The Church and refused to have me baptized Catholic. Instead they got married and I was baptized in the Lutheran church.

There are things I like about the Catholic church, and I end up attending more Catholic services than anything else (comes from mother being the choir director in a Catholic church). But some things really rub me the wrong way, like the whole confession thing, nor do I particularly care about crossing myself when entering a church or going near the altar.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Christianity is just based on Jesus, though. Yes, he's the savior and the Messiah and God's son, but it's not just about him. Take the Lord's Prayer or Apostle's Creed- in the LP, Jesus isn't even mentioned and in the AC, he's mentioned, but just as part of it. It's more believing in everything, than just him

[bluntedge]

I think I like the Christian churches/sects you've experienced better then. In my experience, most Christians will certainly be concerned with more than just Jesus, but it's just that he forms the great majority of what their faith focuses on, so I feel pretty disconnected with them. And any church which doesn't require confession and too many complicated rituals is definitely something I would've liked while growing up. Also, I agree about the singing and the music. I like that about mass too.

Your family's kind of confusing, but aren't all families confusing in one way or another? At least you're all sort of on different levels of the same religion, right? Can't say the same about my family, but I don't think I'd have it any other way~

The schools I went to never really went out of their way to talk about other cultural backgrounds, but I think that because I did a lot of reading and watching documentaries and such as a kid, I managed to get just a *bit* more well-adjusted than I would've based on what I learned from school and

[cruel_disorder]

After elementary+high school, I practically consider myself retired from religion in general :D

[bluntedge]

LOLOL. I bet you anything that the majority of Catholic school kids like us wind up atheists or agnostic. XD

[milkywaylynx]

I go to Unionville, which isn't Catholic, but it is Asian central. Even though there are white kids and brown kids, we all tend to stick with people from the same culture. This is pretty sad, since Canada is supposed to be "multicultural" and all, but at least we don't hate each other. That at least must count for something. But anyway, I don't talk to a lot of non-Asian people. This is probably why I often feel that non-Asian people stand too close to me when talking, or they are too.. expressive

[bluntedge]

Well, I wouldn't say that EVERY class I've been in somehow mentioned religion, because that wasn't true. It's just that philosophy counted towards a religion credit, so it made sense that we'd HAVE to throw in references to God in there somewhere. :/ Otherwise, it's mentioned how courses are supposed to teach us something relating to spiritual growth and whatever in the course descriptions, but nobody ever actually talks about it XD"

Hodgepodge! :D

[forochel]

LOLOLOLOLOL IS AUTHENTICALLY AND PURELY "traditional Chinese cultural practitioner".

[bluntedge]

I AM MORE OF A CULTURAL PRACTITIONER MYSELF. *puts up incense daily*

[forochel]

I!!! Put up incense when I can bring myself to brave the lighter. *is failure at lief, wut* Seriously, every time I light one I never fail to burn myself.

[bluntedge]

MATCHES FOR THE WIN.