(If this is your first time reading any of my Messianic Musings, please be sure to read this first, or at least understand the following: I am not a Biblical scholar, and anything I say should always be checked against scripture. Â Additionally, I consider myself to be a heretic – I have deep disagreements with …
I am a heretic – I say that from time to time to people who I discuss religion with. Â And, even then, I don’t discuss my religious beliefs in depth – there’s only a few people who get to glimpse my heresy in full. I don’t meant that I won’t discuss religion in depth – …
I have an interesting history when it comes to religion (heck, what don’t I have an interesting history in?) Growing up I went to St. Joe – a public school that also happened to be a Catholic school. By that, I mean I had to attend church services in the mornings, and take Catechism classes. That’s really not that abnormal, except the part where it was a public school. Oh, yeah, and the part where I wasn’t Catholic. Nor, even in first grade, did I have any desire to become Catholic.
I, in fact, went to one of the many flavors of protestant churches, and was protestant. As you can imagine, this causes a problem – the nuns and students at the Catholic public school were telling me I was going to Hell for not being Catholic, or at very minimum, I wasn’t going to Heaven (there’s always that nice ‘catch all’ in between of Purgatory.) And of course, the protestants saying the Catholics were going to Hell for not being protestants.
