“Everyday people are straying away from the church and back to God.”
Lenny Bruce
Now more than ever, people aren’t using the church to be their connection with God. The amount of people that attend regular church services have reduced drastically but a lot of these people aren’t becoming any less spiritual. This can be because a multitude of reasons.
Religion, as a whole, isn’t really meant to be structured. Just because someone doesn’t go to church or doesn’t say what they’re told to say during prayer doesn’t mean that they aren’t spiritual or connecting with God. In a way, “straying away from the church” could even be more spiritual than if your practises were confined to the rules of the church. Connecting with God is supposed to be a very intimate and personal experience, so how are people as individuals supposed to connect personally if they have to do it exactly the same as everyone else?
Also, the world is very different now then when religion was the main life line for people. It’s clear in history that at one point in time the world needed structured religion because in all that disease, devastation and cruelty people needed hope to keep going. But the fact is that times have changed now and people don’t need that anymore. The world has gotten to a point where it isn’t necessary to rely on people telling them what to do and say when it comes to speaking our beliefs and showing our love and gratitude for God.
This quote really speaks to me personally. I was born and baptized Lutheran but that isn’t the faith that I choose to practise. And this quote basically sums up how I felt when I switched from Christianity to a less structured faith. Being Wiccan is all about feeling the natural, spiritual energy of the world. It’s about finding your own way to celebrate life and the Creators so that it is meaningful to you. I have experienced going to both Lutheran and Catholic churches regularly and the concepts behind the religions are great but the rules and confines are limiting and therefore hard to connect with much less, appreciate.
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