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Posted by SpacedOutKid on December 2, 2005, at 19:06:36
Hey all how are you?
I have OCD and I have a lot of religious obsessions. They have mostly stopped since I started Anafranil but I still find that I need spiritual guidance and I dont know what to do. I go to my Imam and talk to him and he says I should pray and do Salat and things like that. I have a good friend who is a Catholic Priest and he says I should convert to his faith and be Catholic. I dont really know what to do. Anyone here have similar religious confusion?
Posted by Phillipa on December 2, 2005, at 22:59:34
In reply to Am I religious???, posted by SpacedOutKid on December 2, 2005, at 19:06:36
Hi Spaced out kid. Fondly, PhillipaXXXXXX
Posted by lynn971 on December 26, 2005, at 0:52:52
In reply to Re: Am I religious??? » SpacedOutKid, posted by Phillipa on December 2, 2005, at 22:59:34
Well, as a christian I feel that you do not have to convert to catholicism are any other denomination. I believe that God wants a relationship with us, not religous rituals. I personally asked Jesus to come into my heart and be my lord and savior and that was it. My life was changed. I did not do this at a church. I actually did it at a party after I had drank about two six packs of beer. I was nineteen years old at the time. It is so funny, because that night I did not get drunk. I was a skinny young girl who had just drank two six packs of beer, and I did not get drunk - go figure.
I do not intend to push my views on anyone, I am just letting you know my own personal experience.
Your friend,
Lynn
Posted by deirdrehbrt on January 27, 2006, at 13:19:26
In reply to Am I religious???, posted by SpacedOutKid on December 2, 2005, at 19:06:36
Spaced Out Kid,
Answering your post kind of late, but just though I would share my own experience. I grew up Catholic. It was hard. Partly b/c of the ab*se that was going on in the church (it didn't skip by my family), and partly b/c I was told quite clearly that I was going to H*ll. I eventually found my spiritual life from within a bottle.
I spent some time as an adult "church shopping", and I would become enthusiastic for a while, but would drift away. I did find some comfort as a musician in a Catholic church. Still, I was going through the motions, looking for "salvation" by trying to do the things that I though God wanted me to do, and being who I thought God wanted me to be. I had actually lived my whole life that way, mind-reading and trying to be who other people wanted.
I've since come to believe that it doesn't really matter what faith you find yourself in. Deity just is, and wants the best for you.
Personally, now, I'm pagan. It's what makes sense for me. I am finding incredible beauty and love in this universe. And sense. I don't have to pretend anymore. I can find, and be myself.
I think we're all creations of deity, and we were all made as we are. The journey is two-fold: to find out who we are, and then to come to terms with our deity, be that God, Goddess, whatever.
In the end though, obsession isn't worship. Obsession is a psychological state, worship is an offering to our higher power. I'm certain that your higher power can help you sort that out.
As far as converting, I (personally) don't think that's necessary. I think that deity expresses itself (him or her) in many different ways, to many different peoples. I don't think that (he or she) purposefully left out billions of people from a plan of salvation just because they knew (him or her) by a different name. So, I wouldn't worry about converting to Catholicism. If at some point, you feel led to choose a certain spiritual path or denomination, then by all means, do. Just don't do it because someone is telling you so. Do it because you believe it.
Just my 2 cents.... Dee
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