Religious teaching are good. They're meant to do good. To me, It's just the people. Human beings are capable to do anything, good or bad. And they will take or interpret anything as justification, including religion. My father is a priest/pastor, from a Presbyterian Church. I never felt like religion was forced on me, it was more like a condition I was born into. It's like natural thing for me to believe in one God/Jesus. I still am. The thing is, I've been living in a Church community like all my life. In fact, I'm working in a Christian university now. And I see no difference between a Christian organization than any other organization. They are still an organization of people/human. There's still politics and dirty politics, power struggle, backstabbing, bullying and stuffs. But the way I feel and experience it, if I look only at that and the examples that the people around me are showing, I would've lost my faith long time ago. Deep inside my heart I always felt that there's something better than this, that will come. That through all of this human weaknesses, God will make us work it out, in His own way and His own time. Most of the time they do, and other time I have to wait longer. Anyway, that's just me. We all have different journey, I guess.
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:30 am (UTC)My father is a priest/pastor, from a Presbyterian Church. I never felt like religion was forced on me, it was more like a condition I was born into. It's like natural thing for me to believe in one God/Jesus. I still am. The thing is, I've been living in a Church community like all my life. In fact, I'm working in a Christian university now. And I see no difference between a Christian organization than any other organization. They are still an organization of people/human. There's still politics and dirty politics, power struggle, backstabbing, bullying and stuffs. But the way I feel and experience it, if I look only at that and the examples that the people around me are showing, I would've lost my faith long time ago. Deep inside my heart I always felt that there's something better than this, that will come. That through all of this human weaknesses, God will make us work it out, in His own way and His own time. Most of the time they do, and other time I have to wait longer.
Anyway, that's just me. We all have different journey, I guess.