Religion is a box! I am now unboxed! It has taken me quite a while to unwrap the layers of life that have been passed into me. I was born into a Catholic family. From young I was taught to bow and bend a knee to the rituals taught by the Catholic church that my family were born into, but of course this is how it is done! I get it now! The perpetual repetition without much thought on their/my own. No individual mind but rather the cult mind that honors rituals rather than critical thinking/feelings of our own. I was taught from young that I was a sinner. I didn't recognize this repetitious hammer assaulting' the innocent child that I was until most recently. Had my family not attended, had my family not been born into, had my family not adhered too (the churching) as it were then I would not have been as easily manipulated as a child and into my adult years. Wow! Epiphany!
Ritual abuse! Church abuse! Catholic abuse! Caused me to abuse myself day by day! Year by year. Kneeling, bowing and bending to the taught agenda which was repetitiously forced into my young soul! The religion taught me how sinful I was and in my innocence I fell for all of it! Repetition is the key that embedded, implanted and manipulated my every waking thought into my First Catholic communion, then into my Catholic confirmation and then further into my marriage's. I wasn't thinking on my own. I was unconsciously repeating all I saw, learned and lived.
Once you awaken to your sovereignty there is no way you will ever shove yourself or anyone else through those keyholes ever again!
I can see clearly now! I am free. I am not all that was taught to me, repeated into me nor am I what anyone tells me that I am. I Am who I say I Am! Period!
We're all born free! Until were told we are not! We're all born free until someone implants their words, their desires, their ways into us over and over again! Repetition is evil! In my opinion! Especially if that repetition seeks to infiltrate our own innate ability to think for ourselves. Our education system does this! Our religions do this! Our parents do this! We can only pass on whats been passed on!
In our awakening we awake and realize wow! I've been boxed, leashed, and abused by mere words and repetitions, rather than exploring the natural world we were born into. If given the opportunity we all would thrive if we were allowed to follow the leading of our innate natures given us by God who gave us life! The one who breathed life into us gave us our 5 senses: Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch. If we were allowed to use our own senses and not be bombarded with who the church says we are, who are parents thought they were then taught us, who are education says we ought to be! We'd be further along in our destiny on this Earth in my humble opinion.
I Am Wide Awake! I am unboxed! Shining My Light! Wake up child. Wake up! Its time! In my humble opinion.