Blog 3 - Religion

 Hello everyone, I don’t like to write about this topic,  but I need to say that the Catholic religion, one way or another has always been a bother in my life.  

It all started at school, when I had to pray by memory and without feeling it. Also when I was part of ceremonies that made me feel uncomfortable and didn’t mean anything to me.

I have always associated religión with a duty and an obligation. This meant that the prize of not doing the things that religión asked me to do, was punishment. And If my ideas and wishes did not conform to what I had been taught in my catholic formation, I was in sin and was not deserving of grace. I was denied a forgiveness, a salvation and a love that was originally supposed to be for everyone. So Catholic education brought me shame and guilt.

In the present, I can’t stop thinking about how many times we have been denied our rights and liberties in the name of religión; on how many times we have felt guilty for being who we are because we do not conform to a limited interpretation of the words of God in wich they believe. Annoyance towards religion is always present when young people are not educated about sexual rights, about our bodies and desires, when religión is used as a reason to discriminated  and when the laws are written by the religious hand. 


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