Dear Adam,
According to Wikipedia, Confirmation renders the bond with the Catholic Church more perfect. I think personal perfection is a wonderful thing to pursue, although, since we are all different, none of us, if we are in our right minds, using our left hearts, can think of another as being "perfect". Nor should we.
But, one has to wonder for themselves in this uncertainty stimulized environment, for this moment, what do I expect and what is expected from me? What is worth memorizing and sticking to as goals of life, and what not? What is left to be wondered about, possibly for the rest of your life....from time to time, never knowing absolutely that you are right about any temporary conclusions you are about to act on in a given moment?
It is probably appropriate that this letter submission deadline is 9/11, an aniversary of the WTC plane terror. I would suggest to you that you should never let organized religion destroy YOUR twin towers of faith(belief and doubt) in the wonder about what is not absolute. You should attempt to live a life where you obey laws but religious beliefs that are not absolute, and that just about includes all beliefs,..those that cannot be proven, like eternal damnation or purgatory or what have you..... Don't let these programmed beliefs make you a non emotional robot unless you are desparate and are too weak to take the physical suffering that might accompany your professed differences with that programming! If you need the financial support from these organized religion(s), be a good actor when you have too, but at least seek out friends and have goals that someday you can have your material without those attachments. I for one will be proud of you if you do!
From my experience, our US society can and will try to make your life miserable if you profess different from the mainstream controls of organized religion. People generally do much better materially so far, just by clinging to the old system and repeating their verses and minding their own business otherwise, whether they think it is meaningless or not.
I have suffered and my family has suffered many losses for not being and giving to, professing different beliefs than that lifetime membership required. Even laws are passed to keep organized religion.
The Indians believe in "The Great Spirit". That is similar to my belief system. This is what I believe and it is ok if you discern me or have others do so.
renders the bond with the Church more perfect
Life does not always seem FAIR!
Hi! I am a Forgive Affirmed Spirit and this is what I profess and try to act like.
Forgive Affirmed Spirit is the belief in a way of life that is a method of grief resolution and functional communication processing involving active listenning, sympathy, empathy and affirmation of shock, denial, anger, guilt, depression, loneliness and hope...a kind of ego-equilibrium seeking methodology.
A Greater Works of communication and action, a way to learn to love your enemies "Advocating mortal life, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you AS IF YOU WERE THEM!"
And nobody is perfect! NOBODY! We are all judgeable, hopefully in a graceful discerning way! We are all doing our best every moment!
Humans judge everything as we are a part of it. Without difference, we have nothing to live for, nothing to witness. Sin is difference, the relative seriousness with regards to law and survival of other beings, is punishable by the courts. The best way to judge is with as much graceful discernment as one can muster in a given moment!
Life is the question(uncertainty) asked by the exhaling infinitely compacted imagination invention, or no thing, which is completely certain of everything, completely omniscient or all knowing.
When I die, I believe I will be in a new state, aware of all that is and yet divided into the nature of dust that I am in, whereupon my dust shall fall. My being will remain an infinite part of an infinite being and infinite knowledge without my material human being status of now. So there will be a change.
But my soul, my passions and discompassions, will move on to infinite places of comfort and challenge. Able to return to this state of uncertainty and free choice illusion for another ride when it is called effectively to do so.
So that the children of God, the creations of God, .. are actually part in parcel of that God or Creation Energy!
This life is a roller coaster ride. Enjoy your passion within it and whatever gathering of two or more in Forgive Affirmed Spirit to make it better can garner.
Healing be unto you and yours and me and mine in
Forgive Affirmed Spirit
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