Losing My Parent Research Paper

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Leirisce Liboon ENGL1302 Professor Detrick Hughes May 9, 2016 Losing my Parent’s Religion Night classes would tire anyone, and just the thought of having to get up early the next morning just made me feel lazy. I didn’t want to move. I was too tired to, so my head was fixed toward the ceiling, not even paying attention to the television blaring at my side. I tried to get comfortable, but without the overstuffed cushions to protect my back, my body sunk into the loveseat with only a thick layer of fabric to protect me from falling into the metal interior. My brother didn’t like the overstuffed cushions, he claimed they were too big and uncomfortable so he took them off and kept them in a corner in his room. Those cushions eventually held most …show more content…

My father is Protestant, my mother is very Catholic and she raised my brother and me in her faith. Though, despite being the daughter of two Christian parents who come from a backward Catholic country, I never truly connected with Catholicism. I never liked going to church. I dreaded going to bible study and mass every Sunday. I only ever prayed when I needed to do well on exams or when I wanted something to go my way. I never voiced these thoughts, because I feared my family would treat me like a bad Christian and continue to push their conservative beliefs down my throat. Because I lived in the Philippines for nearly six years, I was forced to take several Christian classes at school. There I was able to learn about the bible. While they tried to teach me about the rules of the bible and how to be a “good Christian,” instead I learned that the Catholic Church is …show more content…

“That’s a sin and you’re committing sin just thinking about it!” Though whether a person decides to get an abortion or not, again, is none of your business and should be a personal choice between a woman and her doctor. Not God and other nosy people. Those against abortion don’t even care about your well-being once you get pregnant and decide to abort. They only care and get into your business once it goes against something they believe in. They don’t care about whomever wants it or why they decide to get it (maybe they can’t afford a child), but they only start to “care” once it goes against their personal

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