These are the questions I ask myself now when I think about religion. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school's from kindergarten through 12th grade. Church was every Sunday, no if and's or but's. When I was younger I never questioned my beliefs. Ever since I came to college, however, its been a different story. I stopped going to church and started listening to other peoples opinions on the matter. Suddenly I started feeling like all the years spent learning about the Bible and the church were a complete waste of time. I am not saying that i don't believe in God anymore, but I don't believe in more than half of what the church tells me. I mean isn't it silly to think that we base our whole lives off of some book that someone wrote thousands of years ago? To me, its crazy and it's content is even crazier. Also, I feel that it is unnecessary to go to Church every Sunday. Why do I have to pray to God with a bunch of strangers every week for an hour? Why can't I form my own relationship with God and pray to him by myself if I please? Who is the church to tell me that I have to repent my sins or I won't get into Heaven? And so on and so on...
Those are questions I ask myself a lot these days. I know that my family wouldn't be proud to learn about my sudden disbelief in Catholicism, but I am a grown person and therefore need ask myself these questions in order to be my own independent person.
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