|
faith I like to speak of myself as Christian. I grew up going to church every Sunday with my parents, when I could barely read and write I had memorized the Pater Noster already. My religion has never been a big deal to me, it's been just something that is there, something essential enough that it goes without questioning, never. My religion isn't center of my life, and my whole life doesn't focus on my religion. My faith is something that is always with me and I've never denied it, but I don't feel the need to talk about it all the time. I don't ant to force my religion on others by talking of it too much. I think that this is something everyone needs to decide for himself. If someone says he is Christian, he shouldn't say it because he once was convinced by someone but he should have figured it out by himself, without having asked for explanations, definitions, and whatsoever. Religion is something you just know, something that isn't real when asked for prove.
I make a difference between my faith and church. The church represents the faith in the world, and with that, isn't totally connected it. What I want to say is that I do not support the Pope. He is an old and sick man that is only kept alive by medicine, and in my eyes he's no more aware of what is going on. Moreover, I have no clue how the church can say that birth protection is wrong. Thousands of missionaries go to Africa and teach that birth protection isn't ok, and people believe that. Everyone knows how many people have Aids in Africa. If the missionaries said birth protection is ok, they could make a huge step against Aids. In my opinion, the church acts totally irresponsible here. They abuse the power they have. I am sure that God would rather see healthy people than people that are dying because they are HIV positive.
I believe in the Bible, basically. I believe that everything happened the way it is described and explained. There's just some things I think were not correct to do; such as killing 100 animals to save one man from a demon.
My religion, being Christian, has always been in the background, somehow. It's always been there, even if I don't talk about it a lot. I grew up with it, and I suppose no matter what I do, I will always be Christian. It's part of me, something I don't often think about because it's something essential that you don't question. To finish this, I would like to say that I don't think Christianity is the one and only religion. Whatever someone believes is fine with me, I respect any other religion as much as I respect my own. |