An epiphany

[hockeybeat]

This is sort of a spinoff of the "If The Higher Religious Entity" thread...

I grew up in an uberCatholic household. My mom had crosses hanging in every room of the house. She and my dad dragged us to Mass every Sunday; they had me serve as an alter boy and enrolled me in Catholic schools.

While talking to a friend today, I finally realized something. Or maybe finally came to grips with the fact that I don't believe and that I never believed.

 

[writing irish]

Details?

 

[PeteyPirate]

Let me be the first to say congratulations.

 

[friend of a friend]

How has this epiphany changed you?

 

[Bill Horton]

Let me be the first to say God will never give up on you.

 

[hockeybeat]

I was chatting with a friend and it just dawned on me that I didn't believe. I realized that I had wasted time going to Mass because I went through the motions. Stand up. Sit down. Kneel. Rinse, wash and repeat every Sunday.

I thought I would be sad or angry. I wasn't. I felt nothing.

 

[HC]

I never should have given you that book.

 

[writing irish]

So HB, would you describe yourself as an atheist? Agnostic? Deist but not Christian? Christian but not Catholic?

 

[hondo]

I was chatting with a friend and it just dawned on me that I didn't believe. I realized that I had wasted time going to Mass because I went through the motions. Stand up. Sit down. Kneel. Rinse, wash and repeat every Sunday.

I thought I would be sad or angry. I wasn't. I felt nothing.

There were worse places to be than in church. Don't fret. You may have the rest of your life to realize the mistake you're making now.
Or, the next 10 seconds.

 

[slappy4428]

Let me be the first to say God will never give up on you.

The Islanders, however, will.

 

[slappy4428]

I was chatting with a friend and it just dawned on me that I didn't believe. I realized that I had wasted time going to Mass because I went through the motions. Stand up. Sit down. Kneel. Rinse, wash and repeat every Sunday.

I thought I would be sad or angry. I wasn't. I felt nothing.

Didn't believe in God or in Catholicism?

 

[Flash]

HB, been there, done that. Have since realized it is OK to believe in the HRE, without believing in organized religion, which is bunk.

 

[hockeybeat]

I never should have given you that book.

Ha. I don't think it was the book. I think I never believed, but I just now came to the understanding that I don't believe.

Welcome to the Matrix, HB. Don't be afraid of the blue pill; it goes well with wine. Enjoy the veal.

Thanks. The veal and wine are marvelous, as is the waitress...

So HB, would you describe yourself as an atheist? Agnostic? Deist but not Christian? Christian but not Catholic?

I am not sure how I would describe myself.

 

[friend of a friend]

I was chatting with a friend and it just dawned on me that I didn't believe. I realized that I had wasted time going to Mass because I went through the motions. Stand up. Sit down. Kneel. Rinse, wash and repeat every Sunday.

I thought I would be sad or angry. I wasn't. I felt nothing.

There were worse places to be than in church. Don't fret. You may have the rest of your life to realize the mistake you're making now.
Or, the next 10 seconds.

Yikes

 

[writing irish]

HRE?

 

[hockeybeat]

I was chatting with a friend and it just dawned on me that I didn't believe. I realized that I had wasted time going to Mass because I went through the motions. Stand up. Sit down. Kneel. Rinse, wash and repeat every Sunday.

I thought I would be sad or angry. I wasn't. I felt nothing.

Didn't believe in God or in Catholicism?

I think there is A Higher Religous Entity. I am not sure, though, if He/She/It is God or Allah or Buddah or whom-or-whatever. I am sure, though, that I never believed in Catholicism.

 

[hockeybeat]

HRE?

Higher
Religious
Entity

 

[writing irish]

Oh, Higher Religious Entinty. Sorry, I'm a bit slow this afternoon. I was thinking "Ho, Ready to Eat." Sounded yucky.

 

[Chi City 81]

I was thinking Holy Roman Empire.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Remember though, a little thing like that is no reason to stop going out for fish fry on Friday night.