Too much of religion, neglecting the essentials

A story shared by Bruno Hagspiel goes:

A protestant boy wanted to marry a catholic girl. Her parents felt it would be advisable for the young lad to adopt the family religion. Accordingly he began to read Catholic literature, and attend catechism classes taught by a priest.
All went well until one day the mother came home to find her daughter lying in on the sofa weeping her eyes out.
“It’s Paul,” the girl sobbed. “There isn’t going to be any wedding.”
What is the matter, my dear? Doesn’t he love you anymore?”
“It isn’t that,” the daughter explained. “We oversold him. Now, he wants to become a priest.”

Typical huh. It is not that I am against religion like Karl Marx who termed it as the opium of the masses. I am a just a bit cynical to people who put too much emphasis on religiosity that they tended to forget the essential things in life like relationships, family, love, and joyful living outside the guise of religion.

A person can be spiritual without being religious. Vis a vis, a person who is religious is not necessarily spiritual. These two concepts are entirely separate. Too much religiosity stemmed from our blind desire to serve our creator without regard for the other essential things in life, for which the reasons (although not entirely) for our living.

I admired people who responded to their divine calls and spent the rest of their lives in those choices. However, I would be happier if these people have embraced the more essentials and at the same time practiced their spirituality and religion in a more pragmatic way.

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