Faith is to have the certainty of what is expected, but not seen. Talking about faith and at the same time religion is a very delicate subject because many times it can hurt your susceptibilities, however, this post is my weekly participation in the @humanitas community, where every week we are invited to philosophize about some important topic. This time it was the turn of Religion.
I want to begin by explaining what religion means to me, it is a system of beliefs, customs and symbols established around an idea of divinity or the sacred. It is a doctrine that strongly links the human being with God. Believing in a God that cannot be seen, but one has the conviction that he exists and is the almighty capable of giving us everything we ask for with faith. That is what my parents and grandparents taught me at home.
For some time now I have understood that we bring with us an endless amount of information before we are born, as they were inherited from our ancestors, which leads us to behave in this or that way. La religi贸n tiene su nacimiento tambi茅n en ese conjunto de informaci贸n que nos ense帽aron desde muy peque帽os, es por ello que creemos o no en ella.
Being a social tool to manage our behavior as well as justice, I think it is very subjective. I believe in God, I belong to the Catholic religion, I was baptized and confirmed, I made my first communion, I go to mass from time to time. I attend the religious festivals and processions that are celebrated in my town. However, there are many things that do not fit me, and therefore do not seem to me, and I will explain why.
When my dad passed away about four years ago, we sent him to a funeral, we were first in the community mass, and once it was over, the funeral began, and we were the relatives of the deceased. My two sisters, my older brother, two sisters-in-law, four nephews, my sister-in-law's aunt and me.
At the time of communion, the priest said that in order to receive communion we had to be baptized, married in church, confessed and have gone to mass religiously every Sunday, otherwise we could not receive communion. We were honest and foolish at the same time, we did not stop, nobody moved because we understood that all those requirements had to be fulfilled. Being such a small group in such a large space it was obvious that no one would move, and consequently the priest did not take out the host, eliminating that detail of the mass, that important moment of communion with the Almighty.
After the return mass was over, we began to question each other. Some said I am married in the church, only I am a widow and I don't come to mass every Sunday. Others said that we should have stopped, because he had no way of knowing, and so on, everyone said something. Here comes my discomfort, if God exists and is available to everyone, why so much protocol to give you a divine representation of God's body?
Why does the church have so many requirements to serve you well in the house of God? I think that in this type of situation, people stop believing and simply walk away and leave these spaces. Just as in the justice system, the representatives of the same take attributions that do not correspond to them. They assume, they judge, they point out leaving aside the service for which they were designated, leaving aside humanity and the human being without receiving the service for which they were prepared.
On the other hand, there are the fanatics of office, those who believe that because they are in church day and night, they are free of sin, and are better people than those who do not go to mass and do not pray. In general terms, I do believe in religions, I respect those that are different from mine. I like to listen to and learn about other religions and their cultures. But I do not endorse any form of modern slavery through religious prohibitions.
I think that the human being needs to believe in something, in a supreme, invisible, wonderful, all-powerful being that helps him to get out of his existential crises, that is the work of religion to help us in the process of spiritual evolution through some deity, however; I also think that if God is everywhere, I should not be singled out or judged if I go to mass.
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To conclude, more than any religion, the power is within ourselves, we have the power to change our reality, if we change the way we understand the world, because the world in which we were born no longer exists.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Deepl translator
La fe es tener la certeza de lo que se espera, pero no se ve. Hablar de fe y a su vez religi贸n es un tema muy delicado porque muchas veces puede herir suceptibilidades, sin embargo, este post es mi participaci贸n semanal de la comunidad @humanitas, donde cada semana nos invitan a filosofar sobre alg煤n tema importante. Esta vez le toc贸 a la Religi贸n.
Quiero comenzar explicando lo que significa para m铆 la religi贸n, es un sistema de creencias, costumbres y s铆mbolos establecidos en torno a una idea de la divinidad o lo sagrado. Es una doctrina que liga fuertemente al ser humano con Dios. Creyendo en un Dios que no se ve, pero se tiene la convicci贸n de que existe y es el todopoderoso capaz de darnos todo lo que le pidamos con fe. Eso fue lo que me ense帽aron en mi casa, mis padres y abuelos.
Desde hace un tiempo para ac谩 he comprendido que traemos con nosotros un sin fin de informaci贸n antes de nacer, ya que fueron heredadas de nuestros ancestros, lo que nos lleva a comportarnos de tal o cual manera. La religi贸n tiene su nacimiento tambi茅n en ese conjunto de informaci贸n que nos ense帽aron desde muy peque帽os, es por ello que creemos o no en ella.
Al ser una herramienta social para manejar nuestro comportamiento al igual que la justicia, pienso que es muy subjetiva. Yo creo en Dios, pertenezco a la religi贸n cat贸lica, fui bautizada y confirmada, hice la primera comuni贸n, voy a misa de vez en cuando. Asisto a las fiestas religiosas y procesiones que se celebran en mi pueblo. Sin embargo, hay muchas cosas que no me cuadran, y por lo tanto no me parecen, y les explico el porque.
Cuando mi pap谩 cumpli贸 como cuatro a帽os de fallecido, le mandamos a hacer un funeral, estuvimos primero en la misa comunitaria, una vez finalizada 茅sta , comenz贸 el funeral, a lo que nos quedamos los familiares del difunto. Mis dos hermanas, mi hermano mayor, dos cu帽adas, cuatro sobrinos, la t铆a de mi cu帽ada y yo.
Al momento de la comuni贸n, el padre dice que para poder comulgar ten铆amos que estar bautizados, casados por la iglesia, confesados y haber ido a misa religiosamente todos los domingos, sino era as铆, no pod铆amos tomar la host铆a. Nosotros de honestos y tontos a la vez, no nos paramos, nadie se movi贸 porque entendimos que todos esos requisitos ten铆an que estar cumplidos. Al ser un grupo tan peque帽o en un espacio tan amplio era obvio que nadie se moviera, y en consecuencia el padre no sac贸 la hostia, eliminando ese detalle de la misa, ese momento importante de la comuni贸n con el todopoderoso.
Luego que termin贸 la misa de regreso, comenzamos a cuestionarnos entre nosotros mismos. Unos dijeron yo estoy casada por la iglesia, solo que soy viuda y no vengo a misa todos los domingos. Otros manifestaban que debimos habernos parado, porque 茅l no ten铆a manera de saberlo y as铆 sucesivamente, cada quien dijo algo. Aqu铆 viene mi incomodidad, si Dios existe y est谩 al alcance de todos porque tanto protocolo para regalarte una representaci贸n divina del cuerpo de Dios.
驴Por qu茅 la iglesia tiene tantos requisitos para atenderte bien en la casa de Dios? Ante este tipo de situaciones pienso yo, que la gente deja de creer y simplemente se aleja y abandona estos espacios. Al igual que en la justicia los representantes de las mismas se toman atribuciones que no les corresponden. Asumen, juzgan, se帽alan dejando de lado el servicio para el cual fueron designado, dejando de lado la humanidad y al humano sin recibir el servicio para el cual ellos se prepararon.
Por otro lado, est谩n los fan谩ticos de oficio, los que se creen que por estar metidos en la iglesia de d铆a y de noche, est谩n libres de pecado, y son mejores personas que el no va a misa y no reza. En l铆neas generales, yo s铆 creo en las religiones, respetos las diferentes a las m铆as. Me gusta escuchar y conocer otras religiones y sus culturas. Pero no avalo ning煤n modo de esclavitud moderna a trav茅s de las prohibiciones religiosas.
Pienso que el ser humano necesita creer en algo, en un ser supremo, invisible, maravilloso, todopoderoso que lo ayude a salir de sus crisis existenciales, ese es el trabajo de la religi贸n ayudarnos en el proceso de la evoluci贸n espiritual a trav茅s de alguna deidad, sin embargo; pienso tambi茅n que si Dios est谩 en todos lados, no debo ser se帽alada ni juzgada sino voy a misa.
Para culminar, m谩s que cualquier religi贸n el poder est谩 dentro de nosotros mismos, tenemos el poder de cambiar nuestra realidad, si cambiamos la manera de comprender el mundo, porque el mundo en que nosotros nacimos ya no existe.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
La foto de portada fue editada en Canva, las im谩genes son de @humanitas
Los separadores fueron editados en Canva y Powerpoint
Traductor Deepl