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Being raised Catholic, it seemed natural to attend services and go through all the motions, sit, stand, kneel, stand, blah blah blah. Then I attended a friend's Lutheran church. They stood to sing and they sat to listen. That seemed much simpler to me, less complicated. Still, I attended services because my parents guilted me into it. If I'd had a choice I would have stopped attending in my early teens. It all seemed so rote. I attended religious education classes and I began to realize everything was being dictated. I had no lattitude in my choices of what I wanted to believe or how I wanted to worship. It was their way or the highway.
Everything came to a head when it was time to be Confirmed. In my parish teens were confirmed in their last year of High School. It was supposed to be such a big deal because it meant you were going to commit your life to the church. What a joke. I continued to resist attending services and my parents told me that I had to keep going until I was confirmed. After that I could attend services as I saw fit. Since I was 'confirmed' I have attended catholic services less than 6 times (even thought I'm over 40) and those times were only to attend weddings.
I think the Catholic religion is great for people who don't want to make their own decisions about how they will relate to a higher power. It proscribes things like divorce and marriage outside the religion and decrees you confess your sins and pray to Jesus' mother. That doesn't work for me. I have my own way of relating to God now and I don't need some religion to tell me how to do it.
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IS THAT IT ???!!!
Do you even know what 'it' is?
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