I always feel introduction posts are slightly weird, yet here I am making one anyway. So anyway a little about me:
I'm a twenty-something female trying to figure out what, exactly, I believe in if anything. I was raised Catholic, and am still very culturally Catholic. I had Catholic school and Jesuit University education and it was the Jesuits who taught me more about questioning and discernment than anyone else. I've opposed the teachings of the Catholic Church about homosexuality in particular, and the tendency of American bishops to attempt to push Catholics to become single issue voters around abortion. (Were I to return to Christianity, I would almost certainly return to Roman Catholicism or another sect/faith similar, not to more conservative or less formal sects/branches of Christianity.) However, as time has worn on, and my knowledge and understanding have changed, I find many more dogmatic issues with the Church, and Christianity as a whole.
I'm not quite sure what I believe, except that at the moment I do not believe in Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ. I do not know if I believe in the God of Abraham, although I'm not a big fan of his at this time, so I don't know if it's whether I believe in him or whether I think he is someone I should be praying to or not. I don't know that I believe in any deity at all. And I feel like I should avoid "shopping" for a faith without actually knowing what I believe.
I suppose agnostic fits me right now, or perhaps just confused. Anyway as I tend to be one with an analytical mind, this site struck me as exactly what I was googling for. Anywho, enough about me, I seem to have rambled on. Hello to all, and glad to be here
I hope that the cut and thrust of debate will help you to more firmly establish what you do or do not believe.
