Do You Agree With Albert? :: Science Religion Religious Essays

Do You Agree With Albert?INTRODUCTION I cant reckon to find the right words to begin a new chapter in my life. This is not only a research paper for a sept in school any more. It symbolizes the beginning of what I hurl persistented to do since I arrived at Santa Clara a few years back. I pay off had a yearning for a philosophy that makes sense to me personally bingle that does not have to conform to anything I have studied so far. This is my chance. Although the format I have chosen is not the most elegant, it does excogitate my thoughts in the clearest mode. My thoughts are summarized like a diary starting with my initial impressions and quickly jumping from idea to idea in an effort to run across Fritjof Capras The Tao of Physics. DAY 1PRELUDE TO LITERATURE maturation up as a young boy in Mallorca, Spain, I attended Sunday Mass with my mother and brother every week, never really giving it another thoughtit was just something we did out of habit. I was content bei ng a Roman Catholic for as long as I can remember until one very all-important(prenominal) episode in the fall of 1996. I was registering for my new high school (a Catholic one for the first time) when I noticed there was a special discount for practicing Catholics. Of course, to prove your religious affiliation, a letter from your church services pastor had to be submitted. This is when my faith in institutionalized devotion took a major fall. For my family to be recognized as practicing at our church, a minimum sum of $250 a year had to be donated. Typically, my mother magnetic dipped in a few dollars when the collection basket was passed, but the parish had no way of determining how much had actually been donated. If there was no record of family contributions, the letter could not be written. To clarify this discrepancy, they offered a personalized envelope to drop into the collection basket to regulate how much money we actually donated. In one fell swoop, a $250 check was donated and a letter of testimonial yielding a $1000 waiver sent out. Beginning that day, I could no longer face the institutionalized Church and since then have looked for other sources of inspiration in different religionsparticularly Eastern Philosophy.