Aneirin
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I do like the architecture & design in some churches but I dislike religion immensely. My ex’s brother and wives were religious, you know.. the kind that calls themselves good Christians and go to church on Sunday but screws everyone else the rest of the week… hmmm, I think there should be a proper term for that… maybe “religious psychopath”? That bunch sure didn’t have any qualms about doing some things I thought were disgusting…
Bingo ! Also my observation of some religious church goers, it seemed to me they said they were one thing, but did not act it. Catholicism even worse with the confession after the fact thus implying doing wrong is permitted as long as one cofesses their sins. That I am afraid is not good enough for me as if the teachings mean nothing, one can go on as normal fucking everyone over and then perhaps one day a week confess, receive a bunch of prayers to say to say sorry to god, but what about the people fucked over, they remain that and often receive no apology or recompense.
I also quit religion at an early age, I refused to take communion, ( due to thoughts about cannibalism, and the fact that did it never occur that the last supper might have been a time when Jesus was a tadge pissed off with the society he tried to change, he might have been giving them what they wanted in despair ), and backed away from the church, the lot of it, the bible groups, the almost compulsory masses and the confessional as even then it occurred to me there was something dodgy about that Irish Catholic priest who later called at our house to give me an interview as to why I was keeping away. After helping himself to my absent fathers whisky he suggested in the past I would be punished as a heretic for what I had said to him, as my understanding of god was not that which the catholic church promotes. Later I understood my error was that I possessed free will and had the ability to think for myself, not have the church think for me. But as a supposed heretic, I later referred to myself as Pagan and that because I was free to believe what my conscience believed was right. Only later, much later did I find the articles that the church denied that described something which seemed to run parallel to what I had discovered for myself, my brand of paganism which has influences from Indian belief also is in a Christian belief long buried by the church.
The Apocrypha or the denied books of the bible, I always questioned why they were denied, and discovered much of that was because it did not help church policy, which then goes on to suggest what the church is, is an organisation based on the teachings of god, but not god's church, the two things are different, as if they were not, why are certain books excluded from the bible and up until recently, the advent of the internet and with that, The Internet Sacred Texts Archive, why before where certain writings not too easily accessible to the public. If one is going to spout god stuff, they spout it all so people can choose for themselves, not have that choice made for them.
So, my understanding of religion is such that if it picks and chooses which writings it wants to use as a vehicle for the control of people, this thing that those with belief seek will never be found, instead, it will be perverted to serve the interests of man, as history has shown and continues to show.
Oh, in finality, this song sums up my understanding of the Catholic church ;
Church of Madness ( the video depicts many bdsm interests, which gave rise to my past posting about religious play in bdsm, which from consensus many seem to think the premise is edgy at the best)
And the church in general ;
Never Forget The Burning Times
Edited because i pressed the wrong button when inserting a link
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 7/26/2011 4:41:11 AM >
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