My Religious Views part 1

Facebook has this part of the its personal information section for where you can inform viewers of your page (stalkers inclusive) what your religion is.

Another opportunity for people to get creative. Some of of them..."My First Name" "Saved through Faith by Christ" "Follower of the Dark Side" "Al Qaeda" etc etc. While the other more conservative Christians would just put in bible verses or quotes that reflect their religious views.


Personally. mine has changed from being blank to "Mortal Sinner" to my present "Do to me what you would want done to you"

But it's high time I took a deeper look into my religious belief. Time for some look into myself, look back at myself and look at where I'm heading. I've been hesitant to disclose this, I've been hesitant to disclose a lot of things about myself but at this time, I feel I should.

I was born into a very Christian home, actually my mum was the more devoted Christian...but interdenominational. I don't know what other word is there to describe it, we switched around churches then: Deeper Life Bible Church, TREM, Mountain of Fire and Miracles, House on the Rock, etc.My dad was more up in the air about religion. But with time and experience with life, he grew out of it and reverted to Roman Catholicism...a religion he had since he was a kid. He went to a catholic boy's high school at that.

So I was raised between both sides of the Christian spectrum in a very conservatively religious country like Nigeria. I was raised on my mum's side to believe

• Jesus would come down and take all the good people from earth and leave the bad people on earth to perish...Rapture they called it
• Only evil people were broke. If you followed Jesus, you would be successful and rich and drive a Benz"...just like pastor".
• That everything wrong happening in your life is due to some demonic powers holding down, and by screaming out to the lord and casting those demons out...you'd be saved.
• (This one hit me hard the most) Mortal Kombat was a demonic game not to be played by children.

When my dad found his footing as a Christian, he took over the whole religious thing for me and then we found our way back to the catholic church and into the Cathecism, and the things I learned there?

• There is a white man in a place called the Vatican somewhere in Rome, who is God's messenger to Earth.He is infallible.
• By seeking penance for your sins, you must pray, confess to a priest and receive holy communion...or God would never forgive you.
• There are 2 types of sins...Mortal and Venial. Depending on the time of sin you commit, each has its own sentencing and punishment.
  
• There is a special place for people who God has not made his mind up where they are going...it's called purgatory. They can either go to heaven or hell depending on how many people pray for them...

Being brought up on these sides, it was no surprise that my mind woke up and realized "This is some bulls#!t" and refused to be a part of it. I walked away and rebelled. My parents did not approve, but it was too late now.

Part 2 coming up Soon.