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<blockquote data-quote="Presea" data-source="post: 2303" data-attributes="member: 24">My, doesn&#039;t this look fun! Anyway, I&#039;m Catholic. But I lost interest in church a long time ago after being forced to attend it so much during my childhood. I got so tired of sitting, standing, and kneeling! Wow, that might actually be a good idea for a new yoga exercise! And I couldn&#039;t stand being in Catholic schools, where their religion seems to consist of ridiculous amounts of homework. I was getting more homework in the sixth grade than I am now in college! (By the way, I apologize if any of that sounded offensive to other Catholics.) I do try to follow the ten commandants, but I&#039;m still slipping up on the one about taking the lord&#039;s name in vain and lying in rare situations. I should make a new&#039;s year resolution for that! But there are things with the faith and commandments that bother me. But even though I believe in the story of God and Jesus, I am still open to the possibility that I could be wrong about it. To me, believing does not mean closing your eyes to other possibilities. After all, I have no hard evidence that any of this is real. For all I know, the person who wrote the bible might have thought this: &quot;I&#039;m going to write all of this stuff and tons of people will be doing what I say for eternity!&quot; (Once again, I apologize if this sounds offensive.) I believe that Jesus coming here was how God was finally able to experience humanity for the first time, and because of that, he became more sympathetic to us. Especially since I always thought that aside from his mission, he seemed a lot like a regular person who liked to spend time with his friends. Based on this, I don&#039;t think that God is as rigid about the rules as the bible makes it sound. For example, I think that as long as someone haven&#039;t been too bad, God will probably just make them do some sort community service work in the afterlife. Of course, there is no way for me to know if I&#039;m right about any of this.It is also confusing when it comes to the commandment about not desiring anything that another man owns. When I was in Sunday school, a girl asked the priest if this meant it was a sin if you liked a really cool pair of shoes that someone had. The priest told her yes, and that has always bothered me. I think that what it really was supposed to mean was that you&#039;re not supposed to want something that someone has so much that you would be willing to kill for it or something. The way the ten commandments are written can be very vague and confusing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Presea, post: 2303, member: 24"] My, doesn't this look fun! Anyway, I'm Catholic. But I lost interest in church a long time ago after being forced to attend it so much during my childhood. I got so tired of sitting, standing, and kneeling! Wow, that might actually be a good idea for a new yoga exercise! And I couldn't stand being in Catholic schools, where their religion seems to consist of ridiculous amounts of homework. I was getting more homework in the sixth grade than I am now in college! (By the way, I apologize if any of that sounded offensive to other Catholics.) I do try to follow the ten commandants, but I'm still slipping up on the one about taking the lord's name in vain and lying in rare situations. I should make a new's year resolution for that! But there are things with the faith and commandments that bother me. But even though I believe in the story of God and Jesus, I am still open to the possibility that I could be wrong about it. To me, believing does not mean closing your eyes to other possibilities. After all, I have no hard evidence that any of this is real. For all I know, the person who wrote the bible might have thought this: "I'm going to write all of this stuff and tons of people will be doing what I say for eternity!" (Once again, I apologize if this sounds offensive.) I believe that Jesus coming here was how God was finally able to experience humanity for the first time, and because of that, he became more sympathetic to us. Especially since I always thought that aside from his mission, he seemed a lot like a regular person who liked to spend time with his friends. Based on this, I don't think that God is as rigid about the rules as the bible makes it sound. For example, I think that as long as someone haven't been too bad, God will probably just make them do some sort community service work in the afterlife. Of course, there is no way for me to know if I'm right about any of this. It is also confusing when it comes to the commandment about not desiring anything that another man owns. When I was in Sunday school, a girl asked the priest if this meant it was a sin if you liked a really cool pair of shoes that someone had. The priest told her yes, and that has always bothered me. I think that what it really was supposed to mean was that you're not supposed to want something that someone has so much that you would be willing to kill for it or something. The way the ten commandments are written can be very vague and confusing. [/QUOTE]

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