the overrated topic-religion

i'm not a practicing catholic. there's no point in denying that. i dread going to mass every sunday that's why i make random excuses to my mom every time she asks me to go to church with her. and even if i do go to mass, i always ask my boyf to text me all the time.

there's a part during our retreat that we have to confess our sins to the priest and while i was waiting for my turn to do so, i was talking with our corporation leader, Aaron. he's not a catholic. actually, he's a son of a protestant pastor. i asked him a rhetorical question, -->"Aaron, aren't you going to confess?don't you want to try?" (confessions were not compulsory, since there are a few people in our group who are from different denominations) so this is what happened:



Nym: Aaron, aren't you going to confess?Don't you want to try?
Aaron: We don't believe in intermediaries. if we confess, we just pray and confess to god right away.

Nym: Honestly, it makes more sense when you do that, it's like, Occam's Razor, you just have to do it the easier way. believe it or not, when i was in high school, since my mum can't stop nagging that i don't confess nuf, when i was alone at home, i went to our portrait of Jesus and just confessed. i have to admit, it's much much easier when you do that.
Aaron: I thought you consider yourself as an aethist
Nym: I was, and i still think i am now. that's why i'm thinking if I should really confess now since i don't know what's the sense or the logic behind this, except for the fact that this is required for my so-called "religion". *sigh.. i don't even know if we should have one.
Aaron: let's start with this, do you believe in god?
Nym: honestly, i don't know. it's like, what your mum says when she wants you to be scared and go to sleep early, like the boogey man?
Aaron: well, do you believe in eternity?
Nym: again, i don't know.
Aaron: other religions, like buddhism, believe in reincarnation, like when you do bad, and when you die, you get to return in this life as something or someone nasty or ugly. it's like, bad karma.
Nym: i just don't like the fact that there is such thing as "religion" or whatever you may call it, to restrain me from what i want to do. honestly, im not bad, i know the difference of what is good and what is bad, but that doesn't stop me from doing bad things. although im sure enough that when i do something bad, i dont harm anyone or step on their rights.
Aaron: so assuming that you don't believe in god, or you don't believe in eternity, would you sacrifice your soul on life after death?i mean, assuming there isn't one, it wouldn't be any loss to me, but how about you??
Nym: i just don't get it why do we have to die anyway
Aaron: don't you see how amazing God is? we get to wake up every day, he has this scientific pattern of things that everything around us makes sense.
Nym: i know, take for example, when we go to school, the order, the processes. or our body parts, how everything works and all that. but i don't know, maybe we just sprung from the earth?or something like that?
Aaron: i believe that we have a creator. look at us humans, we can do almost impossible things, how much more with him? he just breathed life into us.

** to be continued..