(01-15-2021 03:59 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (01-15-2021 02:00 PM)DallasTiger Wrote: (01-15-2021 10:29 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (01-15-2021 12:50 AM)DallasTiger Wrote: (01-14-2021 08:21 AM)SeñorTiger Wrote: Nobody I know of was even brave enough to try that at my school. We would have undoubtedly ended up with a ruler to the back of the head courtesy of a nun if we had.
Those nuns were tough....particularly the older ones. You had to behave and if you didn't...no problem...they would kick you out of school....forever.
They are one of the reasons I am no longer catholic. Perhaps some of the most hateful people ever. Not all but the ones that were could have done a better job at the capital the other day instead of the police.
I really never thought I would change my religion because a nun hit me with a ruler if I did something wrong. One observation me and my friends did make was that when we went from 8th grade in Catholic school to 9th grade in public school is was like repeating our 8th grade all over again. Not sure anyone else had that experience but I did....especially in math.
Well, there is a little more to it than just that. I had a nun take a ruler to my hand and beat me with the metal edge that was used to shear paper and beat me with it until she broke the ruler and my hand was bleeding. In front of our entire class. I was in the 4th grade.
When I got married it was outside the church which is a nono. After my divorce my parents encouraged me to see their priest to get the marriage annulled in the catholic church. I did and the guy went through the process with me. That tab was $3500. I said no thanks.
I was raised Catholic and believe in a Catholic God, but also realize that our upbringing, and what we are taught, shape our view of religion and God, and that my word and faith has no more value than anyone else's.
The best lesson I was taught was by the school priest when I was 7 years old. I asked, if someone was in China or the jungle or didn't know about God, could they go to heaven? The priest said that at some point, you have to accept God. It can be at a very young age, when you are older, even if you are a lifelong sinner dying on a cross next to Jesus. He also said that when you die you are confronted with the truth and have to accept it. So, if you are a good person, you will have every opportunity to go to heaven.
If there is a God; I would think that he/she/it will be a loving, forgiving, tolerant, being. With that said, in all religions, many who are supposedly the most religious are the least forgiving and tolerant.
So I take what I like from religion and reject what I don't like. I enjoy bonding with my mom by going to church with her on a Sunday morning, doing groceries, then making pancakes for us for lunch; giving her a hard time when she forgets to take the butter out of the fridge before I pick her up. Then after lunch, back home to watch football or golf, or ride my bicycle depending on the season.
None of the other stuff is important to me. I don't care if someone thinks I'm bad because I don't pray every night, go to church every week, and I accept the fact that I am a flawed being who is sometimes going to make choices that don't fit in with living my best life as a Catholic.