THIS IS NOT A QUESTION OF FAITH
I have considered myself asnostic for a few years now. I have faith more in the people I know and everyone, then some silly religion with it's own agenda. I also believe in a greater god, but mostly for comfort, to hate, and to thank. Anywho, this coming fall I am going to have to make a decision of getting confirmed by the Catholic Church. I am not so sure that I should do it. I know that it would make my mom happy, but I feel like I am just flat out disrespecting Catholicism to follow their ways even though I don't believe it. I don't really care if I am found out, I am not like an in-your-face religion hater, but still, it would kill my mom. So, my question is, should go through with it for my mom, or not?
THIS IS NOT A QUESTION OF FAITH, I DON'T BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY, PLEASE TO NOT TELL ME OF THE GLORIES OF HEAVAN, JESUS, AND WHAT NOT
This is just a sort of run-with-it theory, but say you did get confirmed, and that made your mum pretty happy. What would you have to do afterward? My best friend is, to all intents and purposes, Catholic, but as far as I can see he does nothing for his religion other than to worry about the guilt he has from doing nothing for his religion. Could you just get confirmed, put a smile on your mothers face, and then sort of not really mention it from them on? If you get confirmed and then kind of leave it at that, it's not like the Pope is gonna come after you, and maybe it'd only take this one thing to make your mum a)happy and b)shut up about it.
Like I said this was just really thinking out loud and I don't know much about the Catholic faith (could the Pope really come after you?) so it was just a thought. I hope you figure it out, man- it seems like a knotty problem.
Peace out.
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Thanks, that was the best advice yet. And the pope can't come after you at all, he'll barely come within 500 miles of where I live. So, I don't have to worry, thanks.
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