Religion is irrelevant, boring, and oppressive: a reflection
It is not an uncommon thing for me to come up against the idea that church or religion is essentially irrelevant, boring, or designed to oppress the human person and not free it. One thing I am most compelled to pose back to you, then, is: Isn't that how our modern lives without God are becoming? It's not a mystery. Those who become profoundly religious (whatever saying the words "profoundly religious" even means to you) were 9.8 times out of 10 a student of the world: a secular person. Someone living essentially without God . Pope Benedict XVI called it "practical atheism." Another definition that rings true for many is: "Believing in God but living as if He doesn't exist." Is that you? Honestly, I'm not really appealing to those who are passionately, sometimes aggressively against or hateful of religion or God. I'm appealing to 'you' - who, like a lot of people, believe in God, believe in all of it, yet on a practica