[Valerius]

Being spoon-fed your religion isn't a very fun thing especially if it's a requirement in my college. I guess to some degree my dislike for the preiest-professor's methods of teaching and what he teaches pushes me sometimes to really think hard about the things he teaches me because it borders oh-so-close to bullshit to me. I also see often that what he presents is debatable in the open world, and is often very unpolitically-correct.

I do believe in a God, but I can't find myself believing in the Church for some reason. I do believe in the teachings of Jesus, but I find what the Church adds on to it to be superfluous. Correct me if I'm wrong or straying, but I think things like confession and prayers should be left to the relationship between you and your God, not at church or with a priest.

But is the church not the foundation that Jesus built with his sacrifice? So if I am disobeying what the church commands then I am disobeying God/Jesus. If one is the product of the other, then Jesus can just as easily be the product of the Church! I sure hope not, but I think it's things like these that make me a psuedo-agnostic in a sense these questions just won't go away from my head.

I still believe in God, but if the Church is a product of God's handiwork, then to see imperfections in the Church would go against what they teach us as a 'perfect' God.