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Religion

LegacyUser · 2002-04-22 13:18:06

Reglion is causing me such problems at home. They are all catholics. I dont want to be one any more. Its ruining my life. I wish I was allowed to make my own choice. Can I get my self de-catholicised? How do you go about doing this? This is serious and I am not being a muppet.

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#32 31-05-2002 2:51pm

Rufus T Firefly

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The church has you down on a parish register as a Catholic. The state on the other hand has every personal detail you can think of. I know which bothers me more.

I'd question why a decision by your parents many years ago to do what every parent did in those days bothers you so much. It has no bearing on how you run you life. As as a divorced person you're long past the point of being forced to go to mass by your mammy.

There are plenty of issues it raises - identity, relationship with parents, conformity, marriage etc. It would probably be more useful to think about those issues, their importance in your life and any problems you may have with them. I strongly suspect that the line-on-a-piece-of-paper issue is a displacement from something a good deal more flesh and blood and personal.

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