I think my post the other day about ozempic and how it affected my faith was a little misconstrued. I completely stand by my turn toward my Catholic faith and don’t take back any moment of it. I would say that it has been extremely enlightening and helpful. The weird part about it was that it was ALL I thought about. I had what the Japanese call the “Otaku” around it. I was a super fan, like being into a Marvel heroes. I really was enjoying being very Catholic for a two months there.

Now, I know I have friends (and a wife) who were worried. I am not on the path to judging other people. What people do with their lives is up to them. I am still deeply in love with my friends. I am happy for their triumphs and joys. I support whatever they choose for their lives. Please know that if you are reading this? I love you. I really do!

What I was getting in my fervor for Catholicism was a feeling of DEEP connection. More than I ever had in my life. The primary messages of the faith were up lifting. I felt God’s love every day. It was addicting! I felt the Sacrifice of Jesus for our sins daily. I experienced the universal truths of redemption and forgiveness on a daily basis. Saying a Rosary for 20 minutes everyday was to express gratitude. I wasn’t thinking about all the Earthly crap that has been done in the name of the Church. Or the Dogma that comes from Rome. I was experiencing the Universal connection that faith can give. I felt connected to something MUCH larger than today, much larger than an election, or Pope Francis. I was participating in rites and prayers and in language that was 2,000 years old.

I felt like I was simply dipping a ladle into the eternal stream of human faith. That was just taking a drink from that historical and eternal stream of humanity that we all need. I was simply at the Catholic part of the stream. Over on the other side are the Hindus and Buddhists. Down stream from the Catholics are the Jews and upstream from us are the Muslims. You see, we need this. Human’s need it. And if we aren’t in the old traditions, we’re filling our cups with something new… maybe a different stream all together. And we don’t know what the new source of those streams are. So to be safe and grounded, I am going back to the traditional Western faith.

I prefer to stick with our historical water of life. If that is me being weird? Sure. But I am tired of hiding or being ashamed of having faith. Goddamnit, its a part of me. It’s a part of Western Culture. It’s in our law. It’s in our history. Western Democracies would not exist without the philosophical underpinnings of the morality encompassed in the Christian faiths.

Hopefully this wasn’t too weird. I love to talk this all through.