31 Days, 31 Memories - Day 15

[bironic]

*Sniff* Thus ends the evening marathon and there is no more Samurai Champloo. Oh Jin and pals, you will live on in re-runs.

But hey, halfway point! You know you want to join in.

15. Elementary School

My friend A.'s family was preparing for her first communion. In the foyer of their house, in front of the stairs and beside the door to the kitchen, I said something about how they were Christian. "Catholic," her mother snapped in correction (or at least it seemed snappy at the time). She had also once chastised me, not very kindly, for mispronouncing the word "christening" as "Christian-ing"; I'd only ever read it before, never heard it. Other than those few occasions, though, I remember her being very nice.

Comments

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

Seems someone was a bit touchy about religious questions...



I used to be a Christian. I wasn't brought up that way, my family are atheists, but somehow I just knew that God existed.
That changed when the time came for my confirmation. The priest whose classes I attended then (of my own free will, my parents actually tried to discourage me) was such a horrible person and his God so far from mine that I lost my faith during that year. I still did the confirmation, but faith was never the same again.
I regained again later, only to lose it once more. Now I consider myself agnostic with tendencies towards the existence of something divine.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. Usually the story goes the other way around: parents religious, child questions/rebels by becoming agnostic or atheist or a member of a different religion. And to have your strong faith destroyed by someone whose purpose is to represent it...

I'm glad you've been able to recapture something of your early certainty.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

I hadn't consicously thought of it as the reverse of that classical story, but you are right, it is. The fact that a priest turned me away from God is not just ironic, it's rather tragic...

Thank you. Life is more fun with a little magic, whatever form we may see it in :-)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

True.

I know HP fans would agree. :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I usually think of it being other Christians who insist on Catholicism not being Christianity, not Catholics - being a Catholic, myself, it's always baffled me. I mean, if someone asked me my religion, I would say Catholic, but if someone referred to be as Christian, I wouldn't correct them... because it is correct... just not as specific.(Well, ignoring the fact that I'm agnostic now anyway.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does seem backwards, and it's entirely possible that I misremembered it, but that's what my memory insists, so that's how I wrote it. Kind of makes me wish there were an objective recording of everything that we could consult for verification of our memories.