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mind_the_muse: What is your take on religion?
Mar. 16th, 2008 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
worldfromafarMy mother was a rather religious person. She tried to somehow get me to follow that same path, but I never took it. Or, rather, I started to yet I quickly came to the conclusion that there is no real point to it. I didn't see the point of praying, really. I don't believe there is a being that decides who goes to Heaven, or who goes to Hell. And I do not believe there is some 'path' that one must follow to reach salvation, or that our fate is necessarily written on some sort of divine book.
Even if I don't believe any of those things, however, I don't judge those who do. Just as I have reasons to not get involved in religion, others do and I respect that. I can try to see things from their perspective, to understand, but for myself I always come to the same conclusion. I simply do not believe.
*locked*
Once, during the years that I...traveled, I went into a church for a moment to get out of a very strong storm that caught everyone by surprise. A priest thought I was there for other reasons, and when I finally cleared up that I wasn't a religious person at all he tried to get me to see there was nothing wrong with religion. And I agree - there isn't, if the person accepts it. I, on the other hand, do not.
I forget the exact words he used, but in short he more or less asked why I was so jaded, and... Well. How can you explain to a Muggle that living with a curse makes it hard to really believe? How can you tell them that you saw your mother pray night after night for some sort of cure for her son, yet it never came? How can you tell them about wars that robbed you of your faith - or the little bit that was left of it - when they are not aware that they even existed?
He was right. I am jaded, and after...everything I find it hard to believe in many things. But, frankly, I prefer it that way. My mother died praying for something that is impossible. I don't want to do the same mistake.
Even if I don't believe any of those things, however, I don't judge those who do. Just as I have reasons to not get involved in religion, others do and I respect that. I can try to see things from their perspective, to understand, but for myself I always come to the same conclusion. I simply do not believe.
*locked*
Once, during the years that I...traveled, I went into a church for a moment to get out of a very strong storm that caught everyone by surprise. A priest thought I was there for other reasons, and when I finally cleared up that I wasn't a religious person at all he tried to get me to see there was nothing wrong with religion. And I agree - there isn't, if the person accepts it. I, on the other hand, do not.
I forget the exact words he used, but in short he more or less asked why I was so jaded, and... Well. How can you explain to a Muggle that living with a curse makes it hard to really believe? How can you tell them that you saw your mother pray night after night for some sort of cure for her son, yet it never came? How can you tell them about wars that robbed you of your faith - or the little bit that was left of it - when they are not aware that they even existed?
He was right. I am jaded, and after...everything I find it hard to believe in many things. But, frankly, I prefer it that way. My mother died praying for something that is impossible. I don't want to do the same mistake.
