stream of unconciousness

DISCLAIMER: religious issue

i went to mass today.  right after paying my QC mmda ticket for cheating (and getting caught) color coding last week, i rememebered what day it was and decided to pay my respects to the virgin mary.  so i trekked on foot to sacred heart church just in time for the 1200 mass…

during the mass i was feeling pretty good about myself for braving the rain and the pollution to go to church.  i got a good seat by the middle isle since i was extra early, plus this cute girl with a cast on her left leg was sitting 2 pews in front of me.  ok, so i never got to see her whole face, but lets just assume she was cute.  heck, a girl with the confidence to limp to church on a rainy day with a cast covering her entire leg ALONE deserves to be cute.  anyway, that’s beside the point of this story…

anyway, everything was going great until the homily.  maybe it’s too much critiqueing of supreme court decisions in class, or just the rust that’s collected on the religious side of my brain from lack of use…but the priest made me want to stage a walkout mid-sermon to make a point.  no i am not a heretic, i actually consider myself a relatively religious person…in my own right; but this dude left me slack-jawwed after every sentence.  basically he was talking about how God can only do good, and nothing bad can come from him.  he was saying that it was totally wrong to say ‘it was god’s will’ whenever something bad happens.  the last straw though was saying that DEATH was not created by God, and only man is responsible for it’s happening.  (all together now, lil john styleeee…)  huWHUUUUUT???   duuuuuude!!!  what the hell are you talking about??

first of all, DAWG, u mean to tell me my grandfather’s dying of a stroke was against God’s will and has its roots in a fault of man?  who?  was it HIS faul?  you mean to tell me the people who died in the holocaust was just one big SIN and nothing more?  they died coz some prick sinned, and they had to pay for it??  i accept the fact that God does not take pleasure in our suffering, but to say that hes just sitting back watching it happen and cringing, like a Lasalle blowout of Ateneo is just crazy.  whatever happened to ‘God is everywhere’?  or the fact that without the bad in this world, there would therefore be no way to do Good, therefore making free will a joke.  This is ofcourse a divine MYSTERY in itself, why does God allow bad things to happen?  well, apparently, that priest had the answer and whipped it out on the congregation:  GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.  smart dude, you just totally confused all the kids in that place.  now how are they suppose to pray and ask for God’s help when the main man himself, the big kahuna, the big priest-daddy himself says: bad people do bad things, and God can’t do squat.  take a bow dumbass.

secondly, you mean to tell me we’d all live forever if there was no sin?  i swear he said it!!  death is beacuse of man, not God.  He said God can only create life (in line with his thesis that God can only do good) and can’t take it away.  He SAID THAT!!! And NO i did not take it out of context…i was unusually attentive today.

sigh, so there’s my daily gripe.  no i haven’t lost my faith, i just realize now what my Catechism teacher was talking about when he said that priests are human just like you and me.

oh!  and thank you God for giving us the day off (no labor)…..

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