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Day 4: Your view on religion
Culturally raised Roman Catholic, spiritually I don't believe in gods, although I am slightly more amendable to to theories in a unifying divine force. I don't like saying I'm agnostic or atheist; it's not a core facet of my identity and have had some unimpressive encounters with people who do hold it as such. Being able to hold any definite opinion on what's really going on behind the universe is suspect, imo.
My parents tried to raise me as a good Christian - they sent me to Sunday school and everything. But they also kept books on mythology in the house, which I read for recreation. After careful consideration, I determined that the difference between the stories in the books and the stories in the Bible was that all the people who cared about the former had died.
While I understand holding onto a religion one was raised in, I'm skeptical of converting to one. Choosing one set of stories as more meaningful and, somehow, less fantastical than the others seems ridiculous.
I try not to be an asshole about my beliefs. I do sometimes shitpost about religion/Christianity/Catholicism but it's not meant in a vicious way. I'm sure it looks rude as hell, but it's mostly in a playful attitude. I didn't sit through Sunday school until I was 13 to not be able to have fun about it. Plus, if god is a being than which none greater can be imagined, a being that has a sense of humor is greater than one without, and thus god has a sense of humor.
My parents tried to raise me as a good Christian - they sent me to Sunday school and everything. But they also kept books on mythology in the house, which I read for recreation. After careful consideration, I determined that the difference between the stories in the books and the stories in the Bible was that all the people who cared about the former had died.
While I understand holding onto a religion one was raised in, I'm skeptical of converting to one. Choosing one set of stories as more meaningful and, somehow, less fantastical than the others seems ridiculous.
I try not to be an asshole about my beliefs. I do sometimes shitpost about religion/Christianity/Catholicism but it's not meant in a vicious way. I'm sure it looks rude as hell, but it's mostly in a playful attitude. I didn't sit through Sunday school until I was 13 to not be able to have fun about it. Plus, if god is a being than which none greater can be imagined, a being that has a sense of humor is greater than one without, and thus god has a sense of humor.