Comments for ♥ davinia hamilton http://daviniahamilton.com Life outside the box Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on The great big religion post by Cecilia http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10935 Cecilia Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:54:12 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10935 Great post. I think it is a very common feeling for Maltese. I totally agree with your last comments, and it is something I really believe in. You do not have to be religious/ go to mass etc etc to have values. Great post. I think it is a very common feeling for Maltese. I totally agree with your last comments, and it is something I really believe in. You do not have to be religious/ go to mass etc etc to have values.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by Magatha May http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10929 Magatha May Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:20:38 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10929 Your experiences with religion sound exactly like mine. I grew up in rural Ireland where the catholic church ruled all and priests were never questioned. At the moment I still believe in a higher power who is a watching force in all of our lives, but who only engages in your life if you engage with him/her. It comforts me a little to know that I'm not alone but I feel in no way connected to the catholic church. My answer to anyone who berates my choices, or tries to make me go to mass on a Sunday has always been 'Just because I don't go into Starbucks doesn't mean that I don't drink coffee'. It usually quietens them :) Thanks for writing something so honest, I loved reading it. Your experiences with religion sound exactly like mine. I grew up in rural Ireland where the catholic church ruled all and priests were never questioned. At the moment I still believe in a higher power who is a watching force in all of our lives, but who only engages in your life if you engage with him/her. It comforts me a little to know that I’m not alone but I feel in no way connected to the catholic church.

My answer to anyone who berates my choices, or tries to make me go to mass on a Sunday has always been ‘Just because I don’t go into Starbucks doesn’t mean that I don’t drink coffee’. It usually quietens them :)

Thanks for writing something so honest, I loved reading it.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by admin http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10926 admin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:36:25 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10926 Hey Kristen - glad it resonates with you too. Catholic people always feel they have some kind of duty to save us nonbelievers. Their intentions are good but it is drummed into them (and us) from a young age that we must "spread the good news" blah blah blah. Especially her being your mum, I would imagine she feels responsible for your wellbeing - fair enough hux. Thankfully both your mum and mine eventually accepted the fact that we're intelligent enough to handle our own afterlives :) Yeah I know a few Holier than thou people who in reality are anything but. It's just so hypocritical I can't take it. Hey Kristen – glad it resonates with you too. Catholic people always feel they have some kind of duty to save us nonbelievers. Their intentions are good but it is drummed into them (and us) from a young age that we must “spread the good news” blah blah blah. Especially her being your mum, I would imagine she feels responsible for your wellbeing – fair enough hux. Thankfully both your mum and mine eventually accepted the fact that we’re intelligent enough to handle our own afterlives :)

Yeah I know a few Holier than thou people who in reality are anything but. It’s just so hypocritical I can’t take it.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by admin http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10925 admin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:33:34 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10925 Thanks Mark. I think it's something we all went through and those of us who have left the faith have all found it really hard to shake off the feeling we were sinning or whatever, simply because it was our reality for so, so long. Thanks Mark. I think it’s something we all went through and those of us who have left the faith have all found it really hard to shake off the feeling we were sinning or whatever, simply because it was our reality for so, so long.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by Kristen http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10924 Kristen Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:19:04 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10924 I find myself sharing most of your thoughts. My immediate family isn't über religious but my mother still took it badly when I told her I won't be going to Mass any more. She couldn't understand it and for years she tried to make me go, to no avail. I'm thankful that she never really told me I'd be going straight to hell if I don't go. Now she's accepted it, for the most part :). I think my decision to finally part my ways with the Church for good came about after I found out that my pious, church-going (for any given excuse possible) ex-boyfriend had lied to me in such incredible ways that led me to think that I wouldn't want to be part of such a hypocritical institution. I find myself sharing most of your thoughts. My immediate family isn’t über religious but my mother still took it badly when I told her I won’t be going to Mass any more. She couldn’t understand it and for years she tried to make me go, to no avail. I’m thankful that she never really told me I’d be going straight to hell if I don’t go. Now she’s accepted it, for the most part :) .

I think my decision to finally part my ways with the Church for good came about after I found out that my pious, church-going (for any given excuse possible) ex-boyfriend had lied to me in such incredible ways that led me to think that I wouldn’t want to be part of such a hypocritical institution.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by MarkBiwwa http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10923 MarkBiwwa Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:14:18 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10923 Good post Dav, I think it accurately captured the 'sturm und drang' of adolescents being forced to stomach what you aptly called Catholic guilt. Good post Dav, I think it accurately captured the ‘sturm und drang’ of adolescents being forced to stomach what you aptly called Catholic guilt.

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by admin http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10922 admin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:02:05 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10922 Oh god! Two years of that! Poor you! I'd say as Maltesers our experiences are all quite similar. You were at St Joseph too weren't you? Oh god! Two years of that! Poor you!
I’d say as Maltesers our experiences are all quite similar. You were at St Joseph too weren’t you?

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by admin http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10921 admin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:01:16 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10921 And so you should! Looking forward to a new post from you :) Thanks for reading too! And so you should! Looking forward to a new post from you :)
Thanks for reading too!

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by admin http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10920 admin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:36 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10920 Emerson - completely understand that! How can you give people so much power over another person's SOUL and expect them not to be corrupt? Can't happen. Humans are human. Thanks for reading and glad you liked it :) Emerson – completely understand that! How can you give people so much power over another person’s SOUL and expect them not to be corrupt? Can’t happen. Humans are human.

Thanks for reading and glad you liked it :)

]]> Comment on The great big religion post by Emerson Farrugia http://daviniahamilton.com/2012/02/22/the-great-big-religion-post/comment-page-1/#comment-10919 Emerson Farrugia Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:44:15 +0000 http://daviniahamilton.com/?p=1265#comment-10919 Well written, and I love the tone. We all get worked up about this stuff too much, you kept it nice and calm and relatable. Kudos. I'd played around with the idea that God was good when I was going through much the same process. "Good" the noun, not "good" the adjective. As in "good incarnate", without the meat bit. The omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient attributes of God start making sense then. But once you put religious institutions and the people in them into the picture, that simple idea gets bastardized by their respective agendas. So I decided that values are great, and religious institutions are horrible. Too cynical? :) Well written, and I love the tone. We all get worked up about this stuff too much, you kept it nice and calm and relatable. Kudos.

I’d played around with the idea that God was good when I was going through much the same process. “Good” the noun, not “good” the adjective. As in “good incarnate”, without the meat bit. The omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient attributes of God start making sense then. But once you put religious institutions and the people in them into the picture, that simple idea gets bastardized by their respective agendas. So I decided that values are great, and religious institutions are horrible. Too cynical? :)

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