I was born Hindu and raised Catholic and had a tonne of Muslim friends. What does that do to someone's conscience? If you ask me I would say - it F(*&s you up! Let me explain why:
In Hinduism there is no concept of heaven or hell. Sex is great.. we even have a manual to help you if you aren't too happy in that department. We were one of the first countries to have natural contraceptives, though our population is a thorough question mark on that discovery. We think child marriage is fine but not widow remarriage. Our God's have had pre-marital and extra marital affairs. Some of our great epic figures are born illegitimate. Stripping has been a common theme since Mahabharata. Our temples are adorned with naked and half naked women dancing. So really compared to Catholicism we are just a religion on a constant overdose of Viagra.
Now Catholicism. You mate to pro-create. You do not use contraceptives because that just means you are a murderer (regardless of whether you have a child at 16 that you cant support.) Affairs of any kind are bad. You should feel constant guilt whether you do something or you don't. No seriously, there is a prayer that goes "... I have sinned through my own faults. In my thoughts and in my words. In what I have done and in what I have failed to do." See the obvious genius of it?
That leaves someone like me very very confused. So if I was supposed to meet guests at home for lunch and instead ended up meeting a friend who is dear to me what should I feel guilty about.. what I did or what I didn't do? Turns out - both! I have been battling with this feeling of intense guilt for so long about so many things that don't even matter. I just want to be that girl who genuinely doesn't give a tiny rats ass but damn (?) that conscience.
In Hinduism there is no concept of heaven or hell. Sex is great.. we even have a manual to help you if you aren't too happy in that department. We were one of the first countries to have natural contraceptives, though our population is a thorough question mark on that discovery. We think child marriage is fine but not widow remarriage. Our God's have had pre-marital and extra marital affairs. Some of our great epic figures are born illegitimate. Stripping has been a common theme since Mahabharata. Our temples are adorned with naked and half naked women dancing. So really compared to Catholicism we are just a religion on a constant overdose of Viagra.
Now Catholicism. You mate to pro-create. You do not use contraceptives because that just means you are a murderer (regardless of whether you have a child at 16 that you cant support.) Affairs of any kind are bad. You should feel constant guilt whether you do something or you don't. No seriously, there is a prayer that goes "... I have sinned through my own faults. In my thoughts and in my words. In what I have done and in what I have failed to do." See the obvious genius of it?
That leaves someone like me very very confused. So if I was supposed to meet guests at home for lunch and instead ended up meeting a friend who is dear to me what should I feel guilty about.. what I did or what I didn't do? Turns out - both! I have been battling with this feeling of intense guilt for so long about so many things that don't even matter. I just want to be that girl who genuinely doesn't give a tiny rats ass but damn (?) that conscience.
