"Bah! Little do they care about church. That is only to keep up appearances" (page 139).
As I said in one of my previous blogs, my grandmother used to take my brothers and me to church all the time. In this quote, Antonio's uncle is criticizing those who go to church. This reminds me of when I was little because my grandma would try to get my grandpa to go to church with us and he never wanted to. If he did go, he would fall asleep halfway through the service. When I asked him why he did not like going, he said that he did not think people actually went to church to be with God. He believed that may people went simply to be able to say they went. This changed my perspective because it made me wonder why I was going to church. Was it just to please my grandma? Or was I doing it because I genuinely wanted to be closer to God? Those two questions ran through my head a lot. My father also explained to me he thought people just went to church when it was for a big reason, like Easter or Christmas mass. He said that anyone who went when it was not a holiday only went for bragging rights. Both my grandpa and father did agree however, that some people did exist who truly did want to be closer to God, such as my grandmother. I feel like that inner struggle of religious beliefs I had when I was younger allows me to connect better with Antonio.
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