Your Spiritual Experience

Miakal

I'm not making this to debate God or any sort of spiritual existence. The point of this thread is to just recount how you grew up and how you lived with religion and spiritual stuff. So everyone let's not get all hostile about stuff.

Both of my parents are (were?) Catholic. My dad wasn't a strong Catholic at all, nor is he now, but for some reason took us to church every Sunday.

I went to Catholic school from k-6 and then again in 9th grade. We went to Church almost every weekday, sometimes if there was a funeral we wouldn't have mass. I enjoyed the longer masses, like that Stations of the Cross, because they were interesting and also took time off our classes during the day. hahahahha. For the most part I really enjoyed it.

I went to public school a couple years and then went to another Catholic school in 9th grade. I started to view things more critically in 9th grade, I'm not really sure why. I stopped viewing the bible as a literal document, I remember.

Towards the end of the year I started to read a lot of philosophy. With that I started to learn more about Eastern religions. At that point I just kind of let go of Christianity. It seemed like there was just so much else out there, just as good, and it deserved my interest and time as well.

I liked Buddhism a lot. It made perfect sense to me. In a lot of ways, it still does.

I studied Hinduism for a while. I read the Bhagavad Gita and was pretty much blown away by parts of it. Plus, it's written quite well.

But I could never believe in it. Buddhism either. The practices made sense to me and the outcome was amazing. I just couldn't get myself to join a Buddhist group for meditation and go along with all the dogma. Plus, I just don't agree with all of it.

After my mom died I tried Christianity again. I tried praying and really putting myself into it but I felt nothing.

I don't read any other religious stuff anymore, not too much. I like philosophy, especially philosophers who admit fault in themselves because I'm too cynically. But I no longer have that same craving for spirituality that I did when I was like 16-20.

Duke

netiehr of my parents are any religion or anything so i never went to church besides funerals and weddings. i think its easier to go to church when ur older if you weren't forced to go as a kid. it makes u hate it when ur older cuz u feel like u have to be there and such

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

When I was a kid I went to church with Mom, my brother, and one of my sisters. My mom went to a Pentecostal church and my Dad did not really agree with the belief system of that church although he did not go to church himself. My Dad's family goes to a much more quiet and subdued type of church that is very old fashioned in that they believe that women should say nothing in church and the men should do all the preaching, teaching, etc......

I guess at about the age of 12 I quit going to church all together and went several years where I would just go to church on Easter and maybe Christmas. Then when my Dad died which was 2 years ago I really got into church again and began attending pretty regularly again for a while. Now I kind of have stopped going again. I haven't been since about January I guess.

Mr. Kennedy

I've never been a spiritual person, although for my grandma I go to church every Easter. It's not bad, although I don't feel comfortable singing all these songs about Jesus and God when I don't believe in them(I know there was a Jesus, I just don't believe that he is the son of a god).

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Duke

i go on occasion but im just to lazy to get up on sundays. i went sunday tho

airr233

My mom is really Catholic and I was raised to go to church every Sunday. I still go every Sunday but sometimes I slack off and don't go. There was a stretch at the end of last year where I just stopped going but I go back. I say the prayers but I don't sing the songs. I don't go up for communion just because I missed the masses and I have not gone to confession in probably 5 years.

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Necro

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I dont go to Church, and am not into it.

My mother really is though

HellKat

My parents are Charismatic Catholics, Catholic fanatics out in right field who exemplify fanaticism. They crammed that stuff down my throat along with the "if you don't go to church every sunday you're going to hell." First of all God isn't Elvis so he's not at a certain place and at a certain time - you're told he's everywhere so why do i need to go to a certain place on a certain day. Second, you're told to treat everyone equally, and yet they bash gays, hold women down (rightswise), so until there is progression you're not seeing me in the church or listening to much I was taught. I feel that it is what you do in this life that makes you a good Catholic/Christian.

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