tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post5220711708045267017..comments2023-10-16T19:20:24.549+08:00Comments on Out of my mind: Making the church more relevantBong C. Austerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07798514780319855742noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-16084131223679239942008-10-12T21:21:00.000+08:002008-10-12T21:21:00.000+08:00Times are changing the church is so uptight and ye...Times are changing the church is so uptight and yes it's true that these holier than thou can't relate to us-their public...<BR/><BR/>Church against contraceptives and sex education?! Whats their solution? Monogamy and sex after marriage?-HAH! Yeah! <BR/><BR/>Priest giving out sermons like they're fucking saints?! They can't even end their sentence and they go beat around the bush and at the end of their homilies-garbage...I'd like to think that most of the times they were either drunk or they have a bad case of hang over...<BR/><BR/>How can I say this? Do I go to church? well, I'm from the province remember? We are required to go to mass every Sundays and we we have novena every Wed...I don't want to generalize there are a few good ones out there but the rest sucks! Hypocrites, self righteous S.O.B.<BR/><BR/>Oooohh have I said too much? amI going to hell for this HAHAHAHAHA! <BR/><BR/>Well, it's not religion and the church that will save your soul-IT'S GOD! and no, I'm not an atheist-I pro God..but I'm not proChurch...Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121680696868257522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-77153486950592780502008-10-06T22:19:00.000+08:002008-10-06T22:19:00.000+08:00There is perhaps no clearer indication of how desp...There is perhaps no clearer indication of how desperate the Catholic Church has recently become than with their electing of Cardinal Ratzinger as their current Pope. <BR/><BR/>Among many things, this move symbolized their hardline stance in light of their dwindling pulpit. Ironically, it seems to be this very same policy that's making even more of their followers leave.<BR/><BR/>What would one expect, given that Benedict 16th has been undoing all the teachings of tolerance and love that John Paul II spent decades trying to build?<BR/><BR/>Sadly for me, I'm at the point of giving up on Catholicism. While I have nothing against the genuinely good people in the community (there's a lot of them mind you), I just can't stomach having to take orders from some dogmatic old prude in the CBCP who has absolutely no idea how the world works.<BR/><BR/>That, and I'd rather do good deeds to my fellow men for its own sake, not because I'm promised some paradise in the afterlife.<BR/><BR/>I'm eyeing becoming an Agnostic.Contents under pressuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150798234316773741noreply@blogger.com