sapphi_snake said:
spdk1 said:
sapphi_snake said:
spdk1 said:
I practice Gnosticism, I used to be Catholic, but had a HUGE falling out with it and orthodox Christianity in general.
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Sounds liek a juicy story. Care to share?
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(I'm typing this out on my phone, sorry for any bad spelling and grammar)
As long as folks don't flame me, as the last time I posted something about my faith:
When my Dad died we had taken a scholoarship out in his name as he was an adjunct intructor at the college he graduated from with a master's degree, as air traffic control professors are hard to come by. We found out that the church we USED to go to some ten years prior had listed a "collection" under his name to help build an addition to the church or some crap. Thing is that we had moved around the same time i went through Cathecuminate (sp?) so we're talking 1993, My dad died in 2003.....for a decade we weren't part of this church...
we confronted the father, a man that we used to trust, and he basically said "it's out of my hands". This then led us to the Kansas City Bishop who basically said "the church does need the money". This re-affirmed everything I had believed to be wrong about the church, and it put me in a spiritual crisis. I found out about how the bible was constructed and the opression of the Gnostics "way back in the day" and it led me to this. basically put, If God has men that do work in his name act like this, he is no God of mine.
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Couldn't you sue the Church?
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with how much money they have, it would be futile. we felt it better just to let it be, and let those money grubbers have their way sadly. Plus the cash collected wouldn't have amounted to enough to really warrant it, we wanted to add to the scholarship, not pay off legal bills. we just severed ties with it completely and asked them to remove his name from the collection.
