Okay, I failed to say this on the previous blog entry.
This isn't simply an attack on Catholicism. This is an argument that religions are based on hypocrisies and lying. This is a series that I will work on:
(1) I will finish my argument about the Catholic Church.
(2) I will proceed to break down the faults of other major organized religions.
(3) I will try my hardest to prove my point, and I leave it to the reader to decide if I made my point.
This is not an attack on the people of the Church. It is an attack on the Church itself.
Also I'm not saying that the Catholic Church is the only Church to support or fight their own wars. I'm just pointing out this part of the hypocrisies.
Also I would like to state one simple fact: I was a confirmed Catholic and I after the Catholic Church controversy of priests molesting altar boys. I also was disillusioned because repeatedly my priest would claim that people were failing to donate monetary funds to the church. But week after week of the Church bringing in $15,000. I came to believe that this was a ridiculous statement. I donated $40 every Sunday morning and the priest made it seem that it wasn't enough. I shouldn't have to feel obligated to pay money to get into Heaven, Paradise, or Valhalla.
Money shouldn't be equal to good deeds and good karma. People can't buy their way into Heaven.
"I donated $40 every Sunday morning and the priest made it seem that it wasn't enough. I shouldn't have to feel obligated to pay money to get into Heaven..."
There are some churches out there that want your money. Not all do, but some. In my church, giving is not an obligation, it is something that one wants to do because of what they'll recieve in return. Giving the tithe, and everything above that as an offering.
I think that church has to work out that problem, making people feel as if they have to give them money, and think that $40 isn't enough.
-Amanda-
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It wasn't an obligation at my church either. The priest just made it seem so.
I am not who I think I am.
I am not who you think I am.
I am who I think you think I am.
You know, if you want to amend a previous blog entry that you have written, you can go back and change it, which means that you don't have to write a whole new blog to add something on to a previous one. At the very top of your blogs, there are two tabs. One says "view" and the other "edit." To change one of you blog entries, just click "edit," and you can fix it, add to it, whatever.
Thank you.
I am not who I think I am.
I am not who you think I am.
I am who I think you think I am.
Also I would like to state one simple fact: I was a confirmed Catholic and I after the Catholic Church controversy of priests molesting altar boys. I also was disillusioned because repeatedly my priest would claim that people were failing to donate monetary funds to the church. But week after week of the Church bringing in $15,000. I came to believe that this was a ridiculous statement. I donated $40 every Sunday morning and the priest made it seem that it wasn't enough. I shouldn't have to feel obligated to pay money to get into Heaven, Paradise, or Valhalla.
My church is the same way. My priest continually asked for more money jsut so we can be out all the other churches in my state. It's sad. But churches just care that you put money in there collection plate.
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"But churches just care that you put money in there collection plate."
- Not all of them
-Amanda-
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First, your churches particular stance is wrong. I too am a Catholic. I'm also physically disabled, and the money I get is limited and usually already spent long before any collection plate comes around. I have never been told anything remotely close to, "You must donate". A condemnation of The Church as opposed to YOUR Church is reprehensible. Id have more to say about this, but youre obviously set in your views and the way everyone voted your blog has said more than enough.
I hope you come to understand that a collection plate never equates to a ticket to heaven before your next tirade.
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