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When I was 17, some jackass Cardinal showed up with the diocese newspaper, held it up, and told us we had to read the movie reviews in that paper. If the "critic" said a movie was morally objectionable (aka Rated "O"), we had to avoid it like the plague or risk hellfire and damnation. Then he made us stand and recite an oath that we would comply with this nonsense. As the rest of the lemmings in the congregation stood, I sat down and folded my arms. Got grounded for two weeks. During that time of reflection, I came to the conclusion the Catholic Church was nothing more than a means of exacting social control, like a political party.

When I went to college, I sampled a few other religions, realized that all religion was a panacea for people who had to believe there was someone or something in charge when their own lives were spinning out of control, and became an atheist.

Occasionally, I'll still go to Mass. I like the music and the acoustics you only get in a cathedral, though the old men in dresses do creep me out. If I wanted to see that, I'd go to Lips.

rugslug wrote:

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an eternity of hell seems to be a heavy price to pay to appear snarky in some thread. Good luck with that!

And what kind of a lousy human being are you that you need to be blackmailed by a mythical sky creature to behave?

Word of warning - if you forget to keep holy the Sabbath (and posting on OT must surely qualify on that count), and you get hit by a car before making a good confession, you could end up in hell for all eternity as well. At least that's what the Catholics told me.

BTW, I'm a big ol' faggoty homo, so I was going to hell anyway. Being snarky towards some self-righteous douchebag on a message board is merely a fringe benefit.

Plus, Jesus had that whole "loaves and fishes" thing, and the Catholic Church didn't want to pull one of the tricks from His repertoire if He ever did come back.