A very lapsed Catholic

Me (singing): Hark the herald angels sing, something something to the new born king....

Lincoln: Glory to....

Me: I am so bad.

Thank you Moses. I'll take numbers 1, 4, and 9 please.

One of the biggest problems that I have with organized religion is it seems that the more religious people are the less they tend to live up to Christian ideals.   "Love they neighbor" only seems to count if that neighbor is exactly like them and lives the way that they want them to live.   Catholic priests are protected by the church while raping young boys but homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of the church.  It's just a whole big bunch of hypocrisy.   Luckily Christians have given themselves an out as long as they have time to repent before they die.  "Oh look....I can be a bigot and a sinner and manipulate the bible to fit how I want to live my life and as long as I say 'oops, sorry....my bad' before I kick the bucket I'm a-ok."  Sorry but that's a bunch of bull to me.

But I digress....

CNN has just released a study that churchgoers are more likely to condone torture while those unaffiliated with a religion are less likely to approve.   

Nice, real nice.

Okay, so I'm a little bit of a hypocrite

Lincoln pointed out to me that in my post about Grandma Lentz I said that I wasn't a very religious person but that every time I wrote "Him" I capitalized the "H". He's right. That was a very conscious decision on my part. I think it's a little bit silly that "Him" is capitalized when speaking about God. And often when I say "thank god" I don't even bother to capitalize the "G" and that's a proper name. Although I suppose that is another religious debate for another day - is "God" his name, his title, or a descriptive term? Or all 3?

But last night when I was worrying about Grandma Lentz I figured that while I doubt my turning to prayer now would make much of a difference it wouldn't hurt to throw in a little extra respect just in case.

Grandma Lentz

Both of my grandmothers are 94 years old. Grandma B will turn 95 this weekend and Grandma Lentz will turn 95 in January. They are amazing women who never seem to be sick and who are as independent as they come. Unfortunately yesterday and today my Grandma Lentz suffered two minor strokes. I'm not a religious person. I'm just as likely to believe in Zeus and the Fates as I am to believe in God so I won't be a hypocrite and start praying to Him now expecting Him to bump me the top of his list. If you are a praying person, however, and you have an in with Him, please keep Grandma Lentz in your prayers.

Thank you.