Eating shit for jesus

This one is fun and shows how far zealotry can go. Part of the confirmation was going to a camp for 2 days. Among all the silly things we did(singing, dancing, seeing a guy being beaten with a gardening hose, guilt tripping us, and talking about ghost stories at night) something stood beyond all that.

What could possibly be worse than all that you ask? Well the counselors made a concoction made of water, spit, raw meat, possibly barf of others and pretty much anything else. The idea was this, the people that loved jesus were threatened with death and they didn't betray their master. So we should prove our loyalty by eating a spoonful of that.

That day I learned that I do not let peer pressure control my actions. I stood my ground and didnt eat that thing, two other guys followed me (we were about 50 in that place). Some of my friends got sick after that and one even fainted during the mass that sunday (this happened on a saturday).

Lesson learned, religion makes you do stupid and dangerous things. Jesus, next time why don't you shove up that thing into your sacred ass?

Doing the confirmation

I did the confirmation when I was 15. This was supposedly part of the catholic sacraments. The idea behind that consisted on lectures each Saturday by a group of teens a bit older than us. I wont lie here, I only did this because most of my friends went here. But by when this thing was over I couldn't care less where my friends went. I wasn't putting up with this kind of bullshit again.

The talks were the usual things:

• Don't have idols(a girl acted like a fan of britney spears, yelling "You are my idol!" and some guards restraining her) 
• Not buying some lucky amulets (a guy selling frogs for luck, it was a 2x1 sale by the way)
• Not using the name of god in vain, how the father, the son and the holy spirit were the same thing *cough* bullshit *cough* (actually the one who talked said "a year ago I didn't want to talk about this because every time I think about it I get more confused". I wonder why was that?)
• Doing a kind of rally looking for hidden clues(one of them was buying condoms while being tied to another guy/girl's wrist and running in the middle of the cars. That was long before the pope acknowledged that condoms MAY BE useful sometimes. At least this church didn't demonize condoms.)

Now that I think of it this thing was indoctrination. I will leave for another time the tests we did here and the camp we had.