Religion and other stuff

  So about religion, reading the Adams textbook about religion made me think a lot about my own thoughts, my own beliefs. I grew up Catholic and still consider myself one. For a time I was questioning the church a lot but just learned to believe in God and thats all I needed. Today, I have been attending church and reading the bible regularly trying to get closer to God, but this reading made my previous thoughts and disagreements come back up.
   A couple years ago I was very confused. My church said that God loved and accepted everyone. What I didn't understand was why was the church so much against gay couples and divorce. Of course my mom and grandma had a great explanation but I was struggling with my beliefs. Why can't two men or two women be together if they love each other? Im sure God sees that and understands love. After all he wants us to always love one another. And why if your divorced you're not welcome at the church? So is a woman getting beat and cheated on by her husband suppose to deal with it in order to not disobey God? Also when the Davinci Code and Angels and Demons came out I didn't question the existence of God but I did question my mom about the church. The only thing she could tell me was to simply believe in God and ignore all that. So I did but now its come back up. I will always be a Catholic but I will never hide my disagreement with some of the things the church does. The video I posted below made a great impact on me.

   I was waiting to talk about religion in this class so that I could share this video with you guys. When I saw it, it completely changed me. Seeing how religion is and all of the example this guy brings up, one of them being about divorce, makes me really upset. Another example he brings up is how the church has so much money yet there are so many homeless people to feed. This video just speaks for itself please watch it its amazing!
    Now Wal-Mart, lets just say I will never shop there again, not even on Black Friday! It is so disappointing that such a rich company, such a rich family, does nothing but bad for this country. I used to see Wal- Mart as a good thing. A store where you can find anything you need. I would think that any small town would be honored to have such a big store. Oh how I was wrong. This video brought tears to my eyes. Seeing all those families who owned those small stores for generations and were forced to close down broke my heart. What were they suppose to do? How would they make a living now? Its just not fair. And now that I think about it, when I am driving back home to Galveston and I pass through Brenham and Giddings, I see a lot of these small empty stores downtown. I always wondered why they were abandoned and why downtown was so empty. Now I know why. The worst part about all this was seeing how the Walton family, some of the richest people in the country, is so unfair and greedy. They can't help out the workers being exploited in China nor the ones here. This just makes me so upset and so angry!
   On a brighter note, the rest of the culture boxes were great!! I got to share mine and see learn a lot about others in the class. This is by far my favorite assignment here at the School of Social Work.