I know, I don't post like I should.. Both of my majors have to do with computers, and I spend 5 hours a day in front of a computer, but I still don't like to talk randomly (like facebook..). So, anyway about what I plan to do this semester. I am finally starting to plan my wedding. As I am going through all the hoops I have found that religion is starting to play a big role. I have been raised catholic. I spent 13 years in catholic schooling and went to church with my father every Sunday. I still go to church with my dad when I'm home. But the problem comes when deciding how to get married and what to do. The catholic church is very specific about how marriage is to happen. My fiancee was raised catholic (he spent 3rd grade and up with me in catholic school), but he doesn't really believe it. I understand his point of view, he questions the church's rules, like dogma (whatever the pope says is truth and is part of the catholic faith). One of the rules that the catholics believe is that when there is at least one catholic in a marriage, then the children must be raised catholic. I don't have a problem with this, my mother is not religious, my father did everything in that field. My fiancee does not have a problem with raising our children catholic, but all the rules bug him.

So.... My first work will be about religion and rules. There was a reading in church 2 weeks ago:

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem
gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals
with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
—For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews,
do not eat without carefully washing their hands,
keeping the tradition of the elders.
And on coming from the marketplace
they do not eat without purifying themselves.
And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed,
the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. —
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him,
“Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders
but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
He responded,
“Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”

He summoned the crowd again and said to them,
“Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.

“From within people, from their hearts,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”

The idea is that rules should not control your faith. My work(s) will be centralized around this idea....

More to follow.