Well, I don't exactly have one. The way I see it at nineteen, I'm doing pretty
good to have figured out basically who am. I was raised Roman Catholic, baptised and confirmed,
but in the past year or so I began to really look at what I beleived and discovered that
there wasn't that much I agreed with the Church on. I've read most of the Bible and to me its
a contradictory book; a mish mash of the history, culture and taboos of an ancient
middle-eastern culture, some really good stories, poems that range from beautiful
to atrocious, the story of a guy named Jesus told by his followers after he died,
some other stuff written by those followers and miscelleneous other stuff. If you
believe that the Bible is the divine word of God, fine go ahead. I'm probably not going
to be bale to change your mind, and you're not going to be able to change mine.
This combined with the fact that many Christain religions teach that I'm going to hell
for being in love with Sara has pretty much turned me away from Christianity.
I just can't bring myself to follow a religion that teeaches both that God is love
and that my love is evil and God hates me for it. How can love hate? But at the same
time I haven't found a religion yet that does match what I know to be true within my heart.
I don't have my beliefs very well defined in words yet. I believe there's something out
there, or in here, something that is so far beyond us that we are not capable of comprehending
it as it truly is. Yet we can some how sense that its there and different people
have tried to represent it in different ways over time. None of those representations
are complete and none of them are the "One True Way." No one person or sect or
culture has a monopoly on the truth. I guess the only thing I have that comes
close to being an organized "religion" is being a hooligan, and we're about as
unorganized as the come. Right now I'm leaning towards Wicca, or perhaps one of
the other pagan religions, but I don't really know enough about it to choose and say this
is the beliefs I will follow. So I guess for now I'm a seeker, if I find what I'm looking for,
or even what it exactly is that I'm looking for, I'll let you know.
As far as morals go, well I'm still working on that too. These are my major guideline for life so
far, under major construction
If it makes you happy, and doesn't hurt anybody(you count as part of anybody) do it .
