Hi there! The reason for this blog is pretty simple: I want to get excommunicated from the Catholic Church, and this blog will chronicle my attempts and relevant thoughts in the process.
A little background: I was born to a Catholic mother, and I was baptized and confirmed Catholic. Over the past five years, I've slowly lost the faith. My questioning of the church just got more and more intense, and I couldn't come up with any good logical answers.
Finally, I went to church on Easter 2008, and I realized that I didn't feel anything there. It was just like it was hollow. I finally saw the church and the mass as an empty charade. My mom knew that I was losing my faith, and she neither encouraged nor discouraged it, and when we left church that day I told her that I had basically gone that day for her and that I was pretty much done with Catholicism. She seemed to be aware of both of those facts, and she was appreciative of my going with her.
I haven't been back since.
(Granted, Christmas of 2008 the timing didn't work, Easter of 2009 I was driving back from Kansas City in the morning, and Christmas of 2009 we were snowed in. But still, I haven't been back since.)
Since then, I have also slipped away from Christianity altogether. A lot of stuff just doesn't add up for me. If you're Christian, good for you -- I'll never try and take that away from you. And if you want to pray for my soul, that's fine as well -- just because I don't believe in it doesn't mean it's absolutely untrue. It just takes a lot more "faith" for me to believe something that just seems irrational, both in the scientific and logical senses.
However, I've never been one to do things the right way, and I feel the need for closure with the Catholic Church. I just don't see myself coming back.
Thus, I want to be kicked out. It just gives some finality to it all. That and it'd be kind of funny.
And since I can see some humor in this all (not to mention the Catholic faith in general), I figured I'd blog it all on top of it. Besides, I could get some responses that I could incorporate into this quest.
I named this blog "Josh's Excommunication Blog" because it's simple and to the point. The URL is excommunicatingjosh.blogspot.com, though. I was originally going to use joshsexcommunicationblog instead, but that would read as "Josh Sex Communication Blog" -- which is funny but not quite the idea that I wanted to give off, especially since I just received a Master's degree in, uh, Communication.
Yep, so here it goes. I'm hoping that eventually this will culminate in walking into the Diocese of Des Moines, asking for my excommunication, listing my reasons, showing no willingness to repent for it, and getting granted said excommunication.
Thanks!
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This is great!! I love this idea!! I agree with you 100%. I'll be "praying" for your sucess!! Hahahahahha!!
ReplyDeleteDude:
ReplyDeleteThe excommunication you seek must be had in a Zen way. The Holy See is like the Mafia - if you say you want out, they won't let you.
You want to seem like you really, really want to keep taking communion with the rest of the faithful -- all 124 of them -- but do something so heinous, that the Bishop of Rome has no choice but to kick you to the curb.
Be creative. Gallileo was excommunicated for more than 300 years. Why? For insisting that the Earth orbited the Sun and was not, in fact, the Center of the Universe. He spent his life under house arrest for such heresy.
So you have to be a pest. Attend mass every day but publicly and loudly proclaim the most eggregious heresy. i.e. "Christ was a homosexual who travelled Judea performing abortions... etc."