august 16 . 2000



religion is a very important thing to many people. whether they be muslim, jewish, christian, hindu, buddhist,every culture in the world has some kind of god or goddess to look up to and worship. now, these being my teenage years and all, my feelings about religion are mixed. i was raised a christian, an episcopalian. i still go to church every sunday with my parents. sometimes i believe in god, sometimes i don't. i think i'm more religious than athiest, but i've definitely got an athiest streak in me. if i feel like praying, i pray. if i don't, i don't. sometimes i wonder if there is a god, a supreme being, if he or she really created and guards the universe. but if there is a god, why do disasters like plane crashes happen to innocent people? it's all very confusing. i don't think that i believe in god, but i do believe in heaven and angels. sometimes i feel protected somehow, when no one's around. like someone's watching over me. for those of you who are very religious, hold onto your faith. once you lose it, it's so hard to get it back...religion annoys me sometimes, though. nothing angers me more than a born again christian. it's great that they love god so much, but please, don't shove christianity down everyone's throat. you're giving our faith a bad reputation. another thing that angers me about religion is that in many cultures and countries, even america, women are degraded. in roman catholicism, women can not become priests. a priest from my city let a woman serve on his catholic altar, and he got excommunicated for it. i don't understand why roman catholics view women so poorly. i don't believe that the pope is "god's messenger", either. i think he's a nice old man who makes religious speeches and rides around in a little glass car. sometimes i do think there's a god. and on rare occasions, i will pray before i go to sleep. but for the most part, i'm losing my faith, and i don't know if i'll ever be able to get it back.