I check yahoo for all the news that doesn't matter, namely the following little video courtesy of ABC news. It's around three minutes long.
I tried to post the video here but yahoo's html is all jacked up, so here's the linkage:
CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO
If you are to lazy to watch through it (I know I would be) then a brief synopsis. You can confess your sins over the interweb!!!! ZOMG what a great idea! Kinda like blogging if you ask me. Actually, more like a way for someone to get their jollies by reading about the messed up things people perpetrate on their fellow man. The Catholic church has banned online confessions of course, claiming the only way to get absolved of your naughty deeds is by (duh) going to church...and throwing a couple bucks in ye olde collection plate doesn't hurt of course!
They've even opened up what I can only envision as a drive-thru confessional at a mall in Colorado Springs. Relieve your mind of how you've been stealing pens from work or committing infidelities on your significant other on one side of the mall, go pick up a tasty pretzel or cinnamon bun on the other side! Arcades are on the come back. Give little Timmy three or four dollars worth of quarters and then run down to The Catholic Center! Can I get an AMEN from the congregation?!
If you couldn't tell I'm not a big fan of religion. Let me be more specific, organized religion makes me nervous as hell. I have no reasoning behind this, perhaps I'm not comfortable with being a sheep. The whole idea of confession is horse shit to me for the simple reasoning that human nature is to screw over whoever you can whenever you can to get ahead in life. HOWEVER! If you go and sit down, tell a priest you did X, Y, and Z, and that you just feel horrible about it all you have to do is say a couple hail Mary's or whatever and it's all good! I get that JC (that's Jesus Christ to those of you who aren't hip) supposedly died for all man's sins. That's the sins that there ever was, ever is, and ever will be. Heavy stuff, eh you atheist pukes?
I can call them atheist pukes because I'm an agnostic. Because I like to sound smart, an agnostic is a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
They, being the church's, are at least giving it a try and moving into the 21st century. You gotta give em that. I'm not applauding their efforts by any means, don't get me wrong, but as I stated earlier organized religions make me nervous. I've been to church once in my life, so I am by no means an expert. I believe in spirituality not sitting in a large, strange smelling room for two or more hours waiting for my ass to go completely flat because the pews aren't padded. I do not feel the desire to show other's in my community that I am a "good church goin" type of person. Like me for who I am or shove off. Trust me though, you'd probably want to shove off if you spent any large amounts of time with me :)
It seems that it's easier to not believe in this brave new world than it is too believe. I'm living proof of that.
-Twiz
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