I grew up Lutheran but my mom grew up Catholic (she had a spat with the Catholic church around when me and my brother were born so she decided to raise us Lutheran) and is now back to the Catholic church. My brother became Catholic because his wife and kids are, and he’s like “whatever.”
My mom is desperately trying to get me to become Catholic and unfortunately the more I learn about Catholicism the worse/sillier ALL religion becomes to me. I spent 2 months living with mom this year, and watched some of her Catholic media over her shoulder and yikes. Just yikes. I’m not talking fire-and-brimstone shit or even anti-whatever rhetoric. Just basic explanations of the stuff that Jesus is supposed to have done, and what God has done for people. To me it sounds pretty much the same as the non-religious “woo” Akaj’s wife is subscribing to in this thread.
I am totally down with all of the being nice and helping people and getting strength from an unknown force part of religion. But as we all know, that can all be come by without religion. All this extra stuff, the rules and the judging and the fear…that all comes from men’s interpretation of books written by men interpreting things men said. And by men I actually mean humans but also…men.
I still support my mom’s path because she truly gets something out of her religion but yeah, her forcing me to think about it has not really gone the way she has planned. The more I think about it, the further away I get from it.