Having been raised a Baptist, I look back and see all the insidious dogma that was force fed to me. Got kicked out of choir and youth group because I am a musician (lead guitar) and told I was playing the devil’s music in whiskey taverns. Those people are robots that believe anything they hear from the pulpit. I prefer to think for myself.

I have to figure it out for myself. Not as set of beliefs that you get at the door, and if you buy them, then you are in. One of the UU principles - a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. It is up to me.

I like the fact that things finally make sense now. Trying to have faith in a so called good supernatural being made it difficult to make sense of everything else.