Comments | lodessa: Originally written as a comment in <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/sionnain">sionnain</a></strong>'s journal

lodessa

Originally written as a comment in sionnain's journal

Jun 30, 2006 10:53

I have long yearned to have faith. It seems so beautiful and comforting... but I just flat out don't have it ( Read more... )

religion

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hobviously June 30 2006, 18:12:16 UTC

And then hobviously brought you a thingy of St. Jude from his most important church in Mexico and everyone lived happily ever after.

lodessa June 30 2006, 18:14:06 UTC

Because hobviously is the best guy ever and she indulges the yearnings I have from back when we were tragic catholics in a past life. So I got her a book of Mary art.

hobviously June 30 2006, 18:17:01 UTC

Best atheists ever.

lodessa June 30 2006, 18:19:04 UTC

Totally. Now let's go look at pretty and important catholic and greek orthodox religious sites.

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shakanaman June 30 2006, 19:05:21 UTC

there is something about catholicism that is... well, drawing. many's the time that i almost went in to mass (despite having been born into a vehemently waspy family), wanting a bit of that mysticism and the peace of mind that i often see people of faith with.
like you, i just don't have any faith, no belief in god. none.
it seems impossible to me to conceive of any greater power.
huh.
what to do with that?

lodessa June 30 2006, 20:05:49 UTC

I guess we just have to take refruge in the cult of academia instead. *sigh*

shakanaman July 1 2006, 00:09:25 UTC

the Cult of Academia!
... I like it.

we should totally have secret handshakes or something.

lodessa July 4 2006, 19:45:32 UTC

Well we've already got ceremonial garb

newnumber6 June 30 2006, 20:56:28 UTC

Interesting reading. I'm also faithless, so it's always a little fascinating to see how somebody else came to (more or less) the same place. I'm not familiar enough with Judaism to know of the story you spoke of that initially turned you off it, but I always thought there were similar hidden moral trap in the types of Christianity I grew up hearing about - the whole idea that people could be gleefully living out in heaven while others were tortured for eternity for no sin other than simply not believing in a being who could make himself known, but doesn't, always struck me as extremely horrifying and was one of the early nails in the coffin of my faith (I am aware that some Christians, and other religions, don't believe in everlasting torment, and some think that you might go to heaven even if you didn't believe if you were a good person, but that wasn't what I'd been exposed to as I was young and forming my ideas about religion... although ironically not much of my exposure was directly by my family, who were religious but didn't ( ... )

lodessa July 4 2006, 19:48:17 UTC

I'm glad you found my babbling relatable and interesting. Religion is a very tricky thing... because it can be a good thing, but so often it is used in horrible ways instead. Faith of course is a completely seperate issue... well at least for me, but the two end up so linked in our minds.

juushika July 20 2006, 21:58:08 UTC

I also think this was an interesting read ( ... )

lodessa July 20 2006, 23:20:20 UTC

Thanks.

I have a friend whose family has been unreligous for at least 3 generations but still feels connected to the heritage culturally. Judaism is special like that.

I make rituals out of totally secular things in an attempt to fill that void left by my lack of faith.