God damn religion

[camelopardalis]

Friends and laughter quickly turned to tears this evening when my father awakened to the noise of their leaving. He came downstairs to confront me about it, then rapidly jumped to the topic of my lack of plans to attend Good Friday and/or Holy Saturday Masses (which are not required by church law). Suddenly, all the frustration with Catholicism

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[hornmafia]

oh my kristen. oh my kristen. i love you dearly dearly, and wish i could fix the world for you. if you need somewhere to run to, my door is always open.

and that is the problem with being intelligent, you know. you will almost always be smater than those in places of power... especially in a church. because, as you said, "the church" values blind obediance. and only the stupid follow blindly. perhaps.... perhaps.... (and this is merely a suggestion).... you should look at another church. something with a little smaller bug up it's ass. :-D i'm sorry. that was evil to say. i hope to see you sometime today.

some useful ideas (quotes) from your wiccan homie

[crazybluepixie]

"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
Stanislaw Lem (1921 - )

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."
Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

"Love truth, and pardon error."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

much love to you kristen. you will find your way.

and on the love thing....

[hornmafia]

my grandfather married a mormon woman. perhaps it is diff, he being a widower, she a widow. but... *shrugs* it ssomething to draw hope from.

[anonymous]

And that kind of shit right there is why I got out.

God, protect me from your followers...

-Eric

Good ole Catholicism

[anonymous]

Yeah, this is only, oh, 4 days after the fact, so sue me. I could go on and attack Catholicism like I normally would, but I'll avoid that. I agree with whoever said (too lazy to look back) about possibly looking at another church. Of course, that would probably anger your family, maybe get you disowned (some Catholics have done that) (and there I went attacking it...), or worse, get you to feel so sorry that you go crawling back, sit in a confessional and come out with the punishment of saying 2 rosaries and a hail mary.

-Heath