Day 4: Religion

I am not atheist, but am against organization religion. I used to teach Holy Communion classes and have most of my rites in the Roman Catholic faith. Yet one fine day, it hit me that religion does not mean compassion. The other CCD teachers were temperamental, without compassion, rude, and judgmental against the children and their parents. I couldn't take it anymore, any longer and I would have descended into MADNESS! I never looked back, and haven't attended mass in nearly 3 years; I cannot bear it.

Religion is so controversial, yet my reserved personality and Political Science major have influenced my views. I don't believe others moral beliefs should infringe on the rights of other in their free choices. Whether you or I believe in abortion or gay marriage is inconsequential to the happiness of others. Yet in an anthropological view, there has been no society without some kind of faith. Coupled with the human knowledge of mortality there is a need to believe in something.

I fall in the deist category: I believe there is a higher being, but he doesn't concern himself with our day to day wishes for a boy/girl to like us or to get good grades. I feel that all we can do is ask for the inner strength to overcome problems in life. If this inner-comfort is all this higher being serves for so be it; yet, I believe in the existence of it. I call it god, the universe, and fate.

My future children will have their baptism pictures as has become a cultural Hispanic custom as opposed to a sacred religious rite. However, they will be raised secular, to believe in classical moral teachings, the golden rule, and the enrichment of society is the product of science.