Jan 5, 2024
Day 11 of The Twelve Days of Shit I Heard at Church.
An Anonymous Submission
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Thanks for this gem Chad Hewitt
A highlight from yesterday’s piece, “Catholics are Not God’s Favorite” an anonymous contribution.
A highlight from last week's post "Shit I Heard at Church" piece.
Catholic's Are Not God's Favorite
Even when I was very Catholic, certain things never sat right with me.
Why do so many religions have a virgin birth? And a resurrection story? Why are the major holidays of multiple belief systems centered around the winter solstice and the spring equinox? Why is the rosary not the only beaded religious artifact? Why does a great flood story appear multiple times across history?
It all led to me asking, why do I, a twenty-something white man from Orange County, have the perfect truth in my bones when millions of people throughout history have believed such similar things? How were my beliefs better and holier as a catholic, than an ancient Samaritan’s were? Or a modern day Jew. Or an ancient Egyptian.
We all share so many of the same stories and beliefs. But the Catholic Ego that was handed to me said that I was right and they were wrong.
Now, when I think on those old beliefs I held, it’s wild how close and far one can be at the same time. Catholic literally means Universal. But there I was, excluding people from Universal truths. How was that ok? How is that encouraged by church leaders?
If I say Universal now, I’d like to think I mean it. If there is a god, there is a god. A god who is the god of all. Regardless of what language you speak and what traditions you were brought up in. Muslims and Hindus, Catholics and Jews, Athiests and agnostics. I’m not sure if I believe in that god, but I know I don’t believe in the exclusive one.