Religious Disputes (I wouldn't suggest reading this if you are deeply in touch with the catholic religion)

I got in this huge argument with my mother this weekend. This kind of argument comes along very often specially during the holiday season. It's not about gifts or money or anything like that. It's about religion. My mother is dead set on being a Catholic and I compleitly 100% respect that. I also understand that in the town she grew up in, everything was based on religion. Everyone in her little town was super religious, going to church every sunday and celebrating the true meanning of christmas and everything. Therefore, I can understand my mother when she wants to enforce the deep catholic ways into our household. The only thing that really bothers me is that my mother is so closed minded. She got mad at me because i dont make an effort to go to church every sunday. I do agree that i dont make an effort and even when she decides were going to church I often try to make my way out of it. It's not that I don't like it, It just doesnt make sense in my head that a true Catholic must attend church every sunday. Belief and Faith in something or someone is something very Interpersonal. It's something that as long as I know is there and I know I beleive, I dont need to show to the world by presenting myself to mass. Anyway, when I said i dont find a reasonto present myself to Mass, that's when she flipped. She started going on about how we have to praise our lord and only hope that thoses in other countries that pray to false gods get illuminated and all that kind of stuff. It makes me so angry when she says things like that. She doesnt understand that just how we have valid reasons to believe in our god, so does every other religion. There is not one religion out there that started by some random person creating his own imaginary character and calling him god and have millions of people praise him. It doesnt work like that, behind every religion there is history and facts and no valid reason to go against it. My mother doesnt understand this. She also doesnt understand that I'm very open minded when it comes to religion. I do have to say that I dont at all have strong catholic faith. I do beleive there was a man long ago that did everything in his power to help all thoses in need when he could. I do beleive that he did great things and brought hope to many people. But what makes us think he was the only one to do things this powerful. In my mind, there are logical explanations for so many events that occured in the bible that were apparently miracles of the lord.
I have a bouddhist cousin that spend a few years in thailand and got very intreagued by the culture and found much more sense to it. When he got back and told me all about it, I think thats when my mentality on things started to change the most. I'm not saying at all that it's my cousins fault that im not a strong catholic believer. I am however very thankful that he shared all he's learned from the bouddhist religion. It's opened my eyes to accepting every religion for what it is, and where it came from.

I believe in a greater force regardless of what it is.