Saturday, May 05, 2007

Oh My GOoD-ness

While editing my profile at my Multiply account (http://cessieslasahnevaeh.multiply.com), I came across an interesting discovery. I was at the Religion section and there were about 9 choices so naturally, I scrolled down to find mine..

So..
Agnostic. (No)
Atheist. (No)
Buddhist. (No)
Christian. (No)
Hindu. (No)
Jewish. (No)
Muslim. (No)
Sikh. (No)
Other. (Uh..)

HOLD ON A MINUTE THERE!

Where's Catholic? It's easily the largest form of Faith in the world and it's not listed? I kept trying to check if I read the choices wrong but it just wasn't there. So now I'm an "other"? All this time, all this traditions sticking to me like glue and I was just now referred to as an "Other"?! But before I threw anymore fits, I buckled down and that's when it hit me..

Christian.

Catholics are Christians. They're one and the same. Aaaaah. So there are no other branches to Christianity. It's just Christianity. I'm a Christian. I never knew it was all just that simple. All this time I have felt so "detached" from the term Christian because I somehow felt, with everything that was emerging, that it didn't "belong" to me anymore or to my Church but By George, there is only one Church! There is only one Faith. One Christian Faith. And that no matter how many more sectors sprout around the now-mushroomed-term-that-is-Christianity, no one can deny that it's all the same. Wouldn't you know it, it's the same core values, it's the same Bible and look, it's the same God.

So why all the divide?

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