Today’s prompt is: A little about your beliefs, faith, lack thereof, or why you don’t want to talk about it (please, no attacks on other’s beliefs).
I was brought up in a pretty strict Catholic household. Every Sunday at 6.30am my mother would rouse us from our beds, and we’d be getting ready for the 7am Mass.
I attended Catholic schools, and in my world, at that time the priests were God’s representatives, and we dare not ever question them.
It wasn’t until after school that I began to read about the church and the goings on within it.
I came to realise that religion was a means of controlling people. The Church’s attitude to women is shamefully disgraceful and the obscenity of child sexual abuse has deeply troubled my sense of belief, especially so when a priest I was friends with was convicted of abuse.
Morpethroad 
Wow! This is so powerful.
Thank you, its apower generating prompt, at our age we all have opinions I am sure…
I agree about religion being used to control people. For good or bad, I haven’t been inside a church, other than for wedding and funerals, for years.
And you’ve disproved the theory that the ceiling would fall in if you did…lol
Yep. 😁
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It would be rather shattering to have a friend convicted of such abuse.
It was as in all the time I knew him he never laid a hand on me or any of my mates….
Thank God for that.