Damn it!!

So, I added a friend on Facebook that's stirring up a lot things that I've thought about recently, but I'm gonna spill on here, because it should be interesting.

The friend I added is an actor for a company in Minnesota called Epiphany Studios. It's a Catholic theatre company. I bet if I went up there, I could help him out a lot. However, I'm not Catholic anymore, but I was thinking about why I'm not.

So let's see. I'm gonna try to be as specific as possible, so that I can say what I believe and not what all the other non-Christians say.

1) I don't believe in there being one right answer for everything. I live how I think I ought to, but that can be completely different from everyone else and that's ok.

1a) I can still be Catholic, but I won't be strictly Catholic with all of these things.

2) I have thought a lot about this, but I don't know if I believe in a god or God or not. I don't know if I really do believe there is something bigger because I want something to be bigger, or because there really is. I don't if I want to think there is a meaning to everything, or that there really is.

2a) Kinda have to believe in "God" to be Catholic.

3) I don't believe that lust is all bad. If it ultimately consumes you and you can't control yourself, it's not good, but a little lust can go a long way. I also have participated in premarital sex, and I don't have a huge problem with it. People just have to be smart, and sex can't become everything. And homosexuality is not a choice in my mind, and persecuting someone for anything is wrong.

3a) These are more contemporary issues in the church. One of my friends put it beautifully and she said that sex nowadays isn't for survival as much these days. It can be for fun because our survival as a species doesn't rely on everyone to have a baby after sex.

4)Drugs and alcohol. Aight. I'm gonna stop myself from saying all I've done, but I don't think people should completely not do them. Yes, they aren't the best things for you, and yes, you can do some things you normally wouldn't do, however that's more the person. Feel me? People just need to be smart.


So there are some things that I agree with with Catholicism, and there are some things that I don't agree with.

If I were to help out with this Epiphany Studios thing, I could do it, but it doesn't mean I'd have to agree with it.

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Tim