Raised atheist/agnostic but I went to a Catholic school and was quite involved in activism and social justice through my school. I have a lot of respect for some in the church, their faith and their activism and devotion to social justice and mercy amazes me, some of the best people I've ever met have been nuns and serious Catholics. But for all of that, there was a pile of dogmatic crap as well. 'Tradition' so often becomes an excuse for intollerance and unyieldingness, unwillingness to move forward.
To be fair though, not baptising kids and 'allowing them to choose' is a form of indoctrinisation- you grow up without faith, like I did. But that's not a bad thing.
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Date: 2011-09-12 02:16 am (UTC)Raised atheist/agnostic but I went to a Catholic school and was quite involved in activism and social justice through my school. I have a lot of respect for some in the church, their faith and their activism and devotion to social justice and mercy amazes me, some of the best people I've ever met have been nuns and serious Catholics. But for all of that, there was a pile of dogmatic crap as well. 'Tradition' so often becomes an excuse for intollerance and unyieldingness, unwillingness to move forward.
To be fair though, not baptising kids and 'allowing them to choose' is a form of indoctrinisation- you grow up without faith, like I did. But that's not a bad thing.