Posting this on the dunk tank so I talk shit.
Like holy fuck man. Every god damn homily is
god is good because he loves us. God loves us because he is good. You need to love good because he loves us. You need to serve god because he loves us.
Repeat for 10-20 minutes.
What is wrong with these people. Do they not teach rhetoric at priest school? God damn it’s pathetic. How do you get your asses handed to you by prosperity gospel preachers despite branding yourselves as the true successors to saint peter or whatever? I’m constantly falling asleep because these monotonous fucks just repeat the same shit every week. And then people in my family have the audacity to be mad because I find someone boring. Sorry, they’re not god, they’re man, they’re allowed to be boring and bad at their jobs.
How do you spend 70-80 years of your life at this shit and think “:soypoint-1: WHOA HE’S TOTALLY GOT A PROFOUND POINT!!!”
I have a lot of problems with religion and specifically Christianity, but the most offensive thing is how boring it is. Is there any denomination that isn’t a total scam that isn’t boring as fuck? I’m willing to become a pesbestarian or Quaker or whatever as long as they don’t waste my hour spewing shit that makes me sleep
I was raised Catholic and it wasn't until I was like 25 that I started to realize that some people actually get something out of going to church. I thought people only went out of obligation, because of the threat of Hell, but then I started to realize that my mom actually liked going to church.
I don't get it at all. Going into a big room with a crowd of people, being expected to look a certain way, having to do the stand-sit-kneel routine which I never learned and just followed along with, listening to someone tell you stuff that's just not relevant to your life while not being able to ask questions or anything, and it's always the same stuff. And if that mode of engagement doesn't work for you, if you're someone who would get more out of reading stuff on your own and discussing it with a small group, then too bad because you still have to go to Mass.
Social anxiety? Fuck you. ADHD? Fuck you. Queer? Fuck you. And it just goes on being weirdly exclusionary. My sister was one of the most devout people I knew, and one time the church got a new priest, and he said, "No female alter servers," and she'd been an alter server for years, and a lot of people weren't happy with the decision, but too bad. There's so much dumb arbitrary bullshit to deal with, especially for an organization that people voluntarily go to and give money to. Like, if you impose a bunch of rules on people and offer nothing in return, I'm just gonna not?