Anonymous wrote:I believe in God and the divinity of Jesus and all of the other tenets of Christianity, but just cannot bring myself to attend church regularly nor declare myself a Christian because of all of the baggage associated with the religion/the various agendas pushed by church “leadership” (see: the recent attack on empathy :roll. My faith has brought me great peace, but my religion has definitely brought me pain.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's both. I am a practicing Catholic and get a lot of comfort out of my faith. I love to pray. I love ritual. I love the community. At the same time I am pro-choice and in favor of women's ordination to the priesthood and diaconate. As a female cradle Catholic, I bear this lifetime of pain from the obvious disenfranchisement, the message that we are less than men. While at the same time, I love being Catholic and would never leave, especially because if we leave, the reactionaries win. They are conflicting emotions, but not uncommon among women like me.
How awful and conflicting for you. Meanwhile, you don't mention actually believing in God. Do you believe?
Yes, I believe in God, the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ, his only son.
And in language straight out of the apostles creed.
But of course. LOL.
With regard to the prior comment about how awful and conflicting for "you", I am most definitely not alone in feeling what I do. It's more of a "we", than just "me", who feels that way.
How awful and conflicting for all of you, then. Are you organized in any way? Doing something about it?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's both. I am a practicing Catholic and get a lot of comfort out of my faith. I love to pray. I love ritual. I love the community. At the same time I am pro-choice and in favor of women's ordination to the priesthood and diaconate. As a female cradle Catholic, I bear this lifetime of pain from the obvious disenfranchisement, the message that we are less than men. While at the same time, I love being Catholic and would never leave, especially because if we leave, the reactionaries win. They are conflicting emotions, but not uncommon among women like me.
How awful and conflicting for you. Meanwhile, you don't mention actually believing in God. Do you believe?
Yes, I believe in God, the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ, his only son.
And in language straight out of the apostles creed.
But of course. LOL.
With regard to the prior comment about how awful and conflicting for "you", I am most definitely not alone in feeling what I do. It's more of a "we", than just "me", who feels that way.