Why are not Christian
As a child I grew up according to the canons of Christian education. I attended a kindergarten and elementary school run by nuns with everything that goes with it. I was baptized, I received communion, and are was confirmed on schedule. Recite Christmas, Mother's Day poems and to learn. Looking back, I can not say that it was not a happy time. But already in those years was something that I came back about religion and what turns them around. Then there was this history of terror. I'm pretty sure nobody has instilled directly into the terror of hell and stuff, but I think he was born listening to the psalms, sermons and everything in an age when you are very impressionable. Just for the record and say that in the end I was really happy, I think I jumped about ten yes and no harvest at the age when I was in elementary school, at least during the school year. For years I served Mass and I was happy to do so. Of course, I wondered why after having entered the summer holidays we do not go to church again and that the sisters did not question the absence of summer. But oh well: it was just a thought that certainly did not upset me. I like to go though, come to think now, what I liked was not the aura of holiness within the church, but only by being with other children in a day of celebration. A little 'unconsciously, as only children can do in those years I began to make fun of the Divine in spite of hell. Serving Mass ok, read in church as well, but there was one thing that I just could not swallow: the rosary. There was this story that every first Friday of the month must go to church and pray the rosary. We had even a kind of diary, in which signs of the presence on this fateful first Friday of the month. Well, I baravo dramatically. It happened that some rosary beads I casually slipped through the hands, so Ave Maria became five or six instead of ten. Sometimes maybe three. Sometimes they skip the lines. A pain. The Lord's Prayer, for better or worse, was repeated fewer times and it was virtually never punished me by pretending carelessness. And yes, I had a little 'fear of what there would think of my conduct. Yet I kept for years this way I do with a little 'of arrogance. The beginning of schools marked my departure from the church, with all due respect (not so) of the family and especially my grandmother, a fervent believer. It was not an immediate posting for a while I continued to go to church, then I started to jump up to stop the meeting from time to time. For years I kept going to church at Easter and Christmas, making even the first communion without confessing my sins unspeakable. I continued to challenge the patience of God. If I think I was going to put those two days in the years lying to myself about whether to believe or not. Difficult to be aware of being a non-believer when you is rooted in the truth of the existence of a higher being. You grew up with this idea and it is as if part of your certainties, perhaps the largest, collapsed suddenly. "Oh, I never go there ... But at Easter and Christmas" seemed had not much sense, so I stopped taking my responsibility to my non-belief. Not fooling me or anyone else. The latter snub led my grandmother to keep the muzzle on Easter Sunday, my first day of absence from the first of two annual Mass I attended. My grandmother was one of those who went to Mass twice a week. That once a month along with other old ladies of the country was going to clean, free from the church. All this has always caused me immeasurable grief, God rest his soul. My Mom is not exactly the pasta but, being the only daughter of three children, many of its ways of doing things are close to those of my grandmother. So when years later, shortly after Christmas, known to be the most beautiful time of year, during a discussion I was pointed to as a beast for leaving the church in every way, I realized that I had made the right choice. With certain things that I did not want to have anything to do. When my brother made the confirmation, I refused to be his godfather. I do not think I would be the right person. Even there, there was to be discussed. However, this beast not offended me, but I did take full awareness about certain things. Every so often, to discuss when it happens, that I like the word reproach, not so much like her mother but to her as being a Christian. University education, especially physics, has done the rest. All 'is the initial tirade, only to say that I started reading Why not a Christian by Bertrand Russell . The book was there waiting for a while 'time and I had always preferred to another, but then the latest statements of Ratzinger led me to pick it up. Why are not Christian is still a misleading title. The book is a collection of articles by Russell, one of which gives the title to the book, about the dangers and futility of religion. Some of those items prevented him from teaching in some universities. The sobering thing is this: are all articles written between 1924 and fifties, and most of the examples that leads Russell to support its argument, arguments are now quietly accepted by almost all believers (you probably would also to my grandma, if she were alive). In less than a century, views opposed by the Church, have become indisputable truth from anyone. If you look past the older one can say the same thing on the theories of Galileo, for example. The free thinker, sooner or later, if the Right has always crushed superstitions, traditions that have no reason to exist except to restrict human freedom in thinking and acting. To speak of crusades and inquisition, then, is like shooting on the Red Cross. And I have to hear an eighty thousand and eight, who presumably has never experienced the joys of sex, should be charged for preaching as not to upset (?) The meaning that the Creator wanted to. No use of contraception other than the natural one. Click to see Ogino and Knaus will make them saints. With what conscience preach certain practices in a world where millions of children die before their fifth birthday?
The problems of China, India, Africa are bad negligible compared to the use of a condom.
A person is convicted of abstinence.
Word of God
-Thanks be to God
"Do not commit acts that are not pure, that is not disperse the seed.
impregnate a woman every time that you love so you'll be a man of faith.
then the desire fades and the child remains and many kills hunger.
perhaps I I confused the pleasure and love, but I did not create pain. "
(Fabrizio De Andrè - The Will of Titus)
"We do not want to fuck if you do not need to procreate ..."
(San Culamo - Wojtyla (back to Poland))
