Voto:
"@cornell. I believe in God, Our Lord and Source of Life. Faith is a wonderful thing. Religion is certainly something different from Faith, but one must understand that many people believe in it, are convinced of certain things, practice a religion, and whatever it may be, it is not pleasant to hear certain free insults from atheistic individuals. Those who are atheists or secular have every right to be so, but those who spread lies defaming the actions that the church performs in the world should reflect first and consider all those Christians who are engaged in difficult territories serving disadvantaged people, individuals who have given up everything to help others, people who possess a strength of spirit that you might not even be able to imagine. While acknowledging that there can be rotten apples even in the Catholic Church, I do not justify these generalized attacks, often driven by blind and arrogant hatred, and I am writing this post with tears in my eyes. It honors you to be a believer in God, Your Lord and Source of Life. As you can see, I have respect for religion by always writing God with a capital 'G', even though I stopped believing in Him or in whoever represents Him a long time ago. Faith is truly a wonderful thing (from what I see in photos, even faith... forgive me the joke), if you have Faith in something (not in Emilio, for heaven's sake..), your life will certainly be easier to face because it’s like having an imaginary friend with a persistent hand on your shoulder giving you strength and hope to face every obstacle. I consider myself an atheist now, yes, but of course, I do not allow myself to insult those who profess any religion. I strongly dissociate from the Catholic one (I live in Italy and that’s what we have), since Christ was born and died poor and in his life, it is said that he performed miracles and acts of charity only for those in need, renouncing wealth and comforts of every kind (if the Son of God did it, it should serve as a caution and lesson to those who claim to profess His word, which happens only in the "lower" ranks of the Catholic religion). Those who go on missions or have a "true vocation" always belong to the lowest caste of the clergy; they are the "poor souls" who carry on the wagon of Christian Charity. Nowadays, if you haven't noticed, the churches in the outskirts are in disastrous conditions and many are closed. If the Holy See is unable to help the priests of small dioceses here in Italy, with their immense wealth flaunted in extravagant tailor-made dresses, massive gold crucifixes around their necks, and rings fit for a thousand and one nights, just imagine the missions in Africa. And no, I am not speaking nonsense, considering that my uncle (a poor Franciscan friar, still poor and will die poor) was in mission in Angola until a few years ago and substantial aid certainly didn't reach them. Those who are atheists are free to be so, but they are seen as blasphemers and heretics by practitioners; for the clergy, one who has separated because he has broken the promise before God is not even worthy of stepping foot in a Church. This is just an example of the foolishness of Christian thought. There are volunteers all over the world who help and assist those in need, in the name of no faith, solely because they have the inner impulse to do so, whether they are Christians, atheists, Buddhists, Shintoists, Muslims, Protestants... God, in theory, is everywhere; why must He have a house? Why must the House of the Father be a place full of sacred images, crucifixes, pews, and an altar? And why must a child be FORCED to be baptized as soon as they are born? Why must they take Communion, Confirmation? To not seem out of place in the eyes of others, to not be different… Don’t you find this an imposition and a lack of personal freedom to decide, once an adult, if one wants to have faith in God or profess another religion? I’m sorry if I have offended your sensitivity, and I sincerel
