[ SECRET POST #1941 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1941 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Carnivale]


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[Cabin Pressure]


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[Fallout New Vegas]


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[My Neighbor Totoro]


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[Kuroshitsuji]


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[The Devin Townsend Project]


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[Glee]


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[Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #277.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA.

As someone who went to a Catholic school between ages 3 and 15, I can honestly say I was always agnostic at heart. Even as young as 3 or 4, in kindergarten, I would question what they told me and it didn't quite "fit". So as I grew older, I moved more and more towards atheism. I'm not as militant about it as some others I know, and I acknowledge religion can mean a lot to people (and isn't always evil) - but there are things in religion I just can't support - and ultimately, I just don't believe it. I do not need or want religion in my life. I do not require it to be happy. I'm happier making my own decisions.

[(Anonymous)]

Could have written this comment myself. Well put.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a very different experience, though it started out the same. I too went to Catholic school (up to my Confirmation) and it never... clicked. I questioned everything and overall I was just really unimpressed. I personally could have never gone the agnostic (or atheist) route because I was raised to believe. So even when I questioned (or just outright ignored) most things I never stopped believing in, well, God (or Christ). It was the things that people told me, like homosexuals were going to hell and masturbation was a sin (and so on- really, the list goes on) that just didn't sit well with me. I never stopped being in God and Christ, but everything else (outside of the ten commandments) just confused the heck out of me.

I never had the option of converting, or becoming agnostic/atheist, since I couldn't just stop believing in something I was raised to believe in. So like the AYRT, I pretty much made it my own. It was the only option for me. Some would say I'm not *really* Catholic since I don't abide by all the church's rules, or hold all their ideals, but eh. It's like, whatever. I like my little happy place where I believe that God is all merciful and forgiving and won't get smote for getting myself off, and I'm quite content to stay here.

In the end, I believe, it's what you make of it. I was lucky enough that I grew up in a decent church with some amazing priests and had awesome parents (though I never talk about this with them), so I don't have a truly horrible experience with religion like some people do. Which I think is really sad because religion has the power to achieve some really remarkable things. It's unfortunate that there's so many bad seeds in the world who wield it like a sword, use it as an excuse to judge, and just overall give it a terrible rep.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Same here.
Also, I actually took what was written as required to heart (e.g. sell all your stuff, give the money to the poor, and live off the land/charity) and was terrified that, because I live a typical middle-class modern lifestyle, it meant I was going to be tortured forever. Deciding I didn't really believe in it was a huge weight off.

[netbug009.livejournal.com]

"I'm happier making my own decisions."

Except I did make my own decision, and I chose Christ. Just because you made a different choice doesn't mean that mine wasn't thoughtful. :/

[(Anonymous)]

The central doctrine in Christianity is obedience. Obey God or go to hell (what a nice guy, eh?). You can say it's your choice to obey, but you're giving up your personal agency in that choice. It's like submitting to a dictatorial government regime that you could have voted against.

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

I felt a similar way. I was a big reader as a child and I loved fairy tales and making up stories and stuff - I kind of treated Christianity the same way and wrote mental fanfiction about Jesus and shit (lol). I fantasized about God watching over me in the same breath as fantasizing about members of the Animorphs watching over me (and honestly, I'd rather be an Animorph than be saved!). When I was about 10 I guess and I stopped believing in Santa Claus (I remember the last time I stayed up by the window waiting for the sleigh...) I stopped believing in God about the same time - and I really wanted to believe Santa Claus was real but I was pretty ambivalent about God - probably because I found church boring as all fuck and hated getting up on Sundays. I kind of regarded Christianity as a very boring story. At least Santa Claus brings candy.