Faith is a hard thing to quantify at the best of times and when it comes down to it something I am not comfortable talking about at all really. I have faith don’t get me wrong I just consider it a very very very personal thing, for everyone. Many of you know that I stand against ANY evangilization whatsoever we have to find our own paths and should seek it in our own time not when some fuck with a Bible or god help you a book of mormon shows up at your door. Its a voyage of personal faith NOT a organization to tell you how to lead your life. God provides a moral background for the activities of our lives and although not always as with the times as I would prefer the church provides a venue of spiritual fulfilment for those who seek it.
I myself link door to door evangilization with cult activity, everyone is going to find their own way to god. Or they are not and that is their decision and preying on those people who are lost and converting them to your own beleifs while tacticly avoiding the short comings of your faith is horseshit. I was Baptised Catholic and I STILL had to do a FULL Year of Confirmation classes in order to get my confirmation. Compare that to some Protestant sects that let you become ordained over the internet, those are almost the worst as they essentially illustrate that a holy man is nothing. No sacrifice no effort, fill out a form pay some money and go marry some motherfuckers.
I know I have some odd opinions like I think Female preists are a good Idea but I was raised with no gender bias at all and I honestly belive a woman can do anything a man can do. There are of course some physical exceptions but there are women I have known who could do anything a man could do and beat some dudes I have known half to death with little effort. So I seem the reformer right? But then we turn to the prospect of Preists having families, and I believe the church has done the right thing. There is nothing I respect less than a man who claims to be of the cloth and has a family. The Temporal and Faith realms are not linked and no man can stand between both and be all he could, either distracted from God by life or neglecting his family for God. Thats why the Protestants piss me off, Pastors have made no sacrifice beyond time to preach, Preists of the Catholic Church have given up Family, Love Beyond God and Sex three things I could never surrender, any man can be a pastor but only a holy man (Or on occasion a man with something broken in his head) can take on the path of Catholic Priesthood to the end. I have an Aquaintance on that road and I can honestly say that regardless of my attempts to argue faith with him I have nothing but respect and admiration for that path he follows. He shows me how good of a man one can be in the name of God, and although it is not something I can do I experience profound envy of his devotion to faith and to God Allmighty.