Church

Some pictures from my old church... Now I don't go to church anymore which makes every sunday a bit better, sorry, but it's the truth... Churches here are a lot different than in Germany, in good and in bad ways... They have a better service in general, what means better, it's just more fun.. The youth groups are more fun, they play better music (some churches have several Instruments including guitars etc.) and seem to have more fun...

I think Abilene has the highest church rate in Amercia.... At every corner you can see a church, and every church preaches something different... A lot of churches here support fundamentalism, which means that the Bible should be taken literally... So they think gay people are wrong and that it is a sin to be gay. Some people think that Catholics are going to hell (don't ask me why) others preach that dancing is not right (or several kinds of dancing). Sex before marriage is seen as bad, too... All in all, most churches are very conservative.. Religion is really big over here, while Germany and the other European countries are more secular. A good thing is, that you can choose your church here and have more oppurtunities, on the other side, what sense does it make, if there are 20 different churches and every church has it's own god and is 100% sure that they are right? This whole thing changed my mind towards religion a lot. When I came here I was definetly more open to religions and especially Christianity, now I'm really critical.. It just doesn't fit in my picture, that people say evolution etc. and that the monkeys are ancestors of us ist wrong and god created the world in 6 days and whatever.. Many people are just really anti science and anti improvement.. I still thank Rosemary (old host mom) for the time and that I could get a better picture of the church and the way some people see God.. I don't know if I will ever become religious, at the moment it doesn't even matter, I just wanna skate, have fun, hang out with my friends, do the stuff I have to do, come back to Germany and be together with my girlfriend ( I love you baby) again and just see what's happening...

But till then remember the words of the 2nd graders you can see above ;)