Hello everyone!

[wilm]

Wilm-

Welcome! If you're looking to leave your country, maybe going to university overseas is a possibility?

(And yeah...you have 'Catholic' listed as your religious views. You only need to say that if you mean it. You can write about anything you like...kinda like mine.)

Okay, i already renew my profile.. Thanks for tell me bout that

Hmm yeah my parents don't want me to maybe because yeah they afraid of i can being "the really i am" there

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I get the impression most Catholics are 'forced' or 'birthed'. How can you accept the choice to believe if it wasn't a choice?

My hero Palagius:

While in Rome, Pelagius first heard of Augustine through his reading of a prayer from Augustine's Confessions: "Give what Thou commandest and command that Thou wilt." To Pelagius, the philosophy expressed in this prayer sounded like the total abandonment of human responsibility and a denial of the ethical dimensions of the Christian faith. If all moral action, thought Pelagius, depends solely on God - both the commanding as well as the ability to obey - God is either an arbitrary tyrant or else man is a creature deprived of free will.

http://www.answers.com/topic/pelagius

Muslim is the major relligion here and my parents are catholic, in here we're forced to have a relligion (from goverment)

One of the requirement of being Indonesian Citizen is "have a relligion / no atheist/agnostic" in here we have 6 relligion: "Muslim, Protestanism, Catholic, Hindus, Buddha, and Confusianism" then we have to choose one of them

Then, my parents know that i'm an agnostic/atheist and they try to make me believe

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Hello everyone!

I'm ex-catholic, i live in the island of Borneo, Indonesia, i'm 17 Y.o. In Indonesia, we're forced to have a relligion but i feel like i don't believe in God and then it's hard to being an atheist/agnostic/freethinker here.. My parents know that i'm an atheist and they forced me to believe, believe and believe. Most of Indonesian people think that atheist = communism (Muslim is the majority relligion here), they think that being agnostic/atheist/freethinker are bad and they will said: "Allahuakbar, f*** you atheist! F*** you antek america!" It's hard to being agnostic/atheist/freethinker here and it's hard to get out from this country and continue my study (University level) in the country that atheist/agnostic/freethinker is not a problem. Maybe i'll leave this country someday, ASAP

Thanks for reading my story, sorry for the bad english and have a nice day

You announce yourself as x Catholic, but list your religious views next to your avatar as Catholic? What's up with that?

I already renew my profile, thanks