I was raised my entire life as a Roman Catholic. However, my curious nature led me to always take its teaching with a grain of salt. In Catholicism, there is a sacrament called Confirmation, intended to strengthen a Catholic’s faith and relationship with God. Part of this holy sacrament required me to attend a retreat with other fellow teenagers who were also on the journey to becoming closer to God. The retreat’s goal was to mentally prepare us for a lifelong commitment to our faith. My church’s confirmation class was joined with over a hundred kids from other neighboring churches. The majority of the kids were highly religious in their quest to become a messenger of God, but I was not. I was instead thinking about all of the other
