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Originally Posted by Thor
I love Dr Tyson, and he talks about the labels and his dislike of being called agnostic or atheist.. He makes great points, hard to argue with.
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This is great, touches on a lot of what I was trying to get at yesterday.
On my walk home yesterday I got to thinking about my experience in Catholic school and how I was never given an opportunity to find my own way spiritually. From the youngest age my view of God and religion and spirituality was focused around Catholicism; it was literally forced upon me, I had no other way but to learn of the teachings and scriptures of that religion. Then I thought: if I had not grown up with this religion so strongly influencing me, had I gone to a public school and not gone to church every Sunday, would I have naturally gravitated to Catholicism? I mean maybe it would've been the "right" thing for me, maybe I would've actually gotten something from it. Unfortunately it was too aggressively driven at me and I always found it to cause a lot of unhappiness in my life. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that anything of a spiritual nature should be left to the individual to discover.