Programmed to thank the lord

[Convallaria]

Everywhere I turned since I was born, I've been faced with Christianity in some form or another. Whether someone said "Thank God" or "oh my god" or "dear lord" or "thank the lord"... Last night I was laying in bed, and I started praying out loud... and then I stopped.... I realised i was praying to the Christian God.. Though I'm one to believe that the great universal spirit is that god, and we all call god by a different name, I still felt somehow strange. I've been programmed to believe in God. I do consciously pray to the lord and lady, but this was different... I was having a moment of desperation and I just started pleading with God... its strange.

[Blondie]

Interesting.

[Tullip Troll]

Not strange at all. You were praying to Spirit from your heart...I don't think it was christian or pagan just your soul seeking a greater power.

MheraPai

[Convallaria]

But I was thinking of the Christian God... the way they see him...

[charmedkisses1]

Is that wrong? I mean, I've kown people who pray to many Gods... I don't see how that's "bad"...

[Pol]

Programmed? Perhaps a bit. Christianity does permiate the life around us in the european based world.
However, should we be so quick to pass it off?
Should we bow down and say that our lives are ruled by others?
Perhaps your spirit was seeking, and that is the God it found.

[Shanti]

I know what you mean I dont even believe in a higher power and yet I often say things like, thank god and oh my god and such...total programming. I understand. Its frustrating but its so repettive. Something happens and all around you, the words like oh my god are heard and as a result...imprinted.

[Convallaria]

I didn't say "bad" at all in my post. I said strange. It was strange because immdeiately after I spoke I thought "I'm not being heard"... and when I made me plea consciously to the goddess I felt, afterward, as though I had been acknowldged... I don't know.. it was all very very strange.