June 10, 2025 12:03 PM PDT
A little about myself. I was raised Roman Catholic with my mother, who was Catholic and my father who was protestant. Back then the non-Catholic spouse had to promise to the Roman Catholic Church that any children born from the wedding would be raised in the Roman Catholic faith. I was baptized in the Roman Catholic faith, had a confirmation in the Roman Catholic faith, and even my first marriage was done in a Roman Catholic Church.
Over the years I had become disillusioned with the rhetoric and outright lies that the Roman Catholic Church was preaching. The abuse that became evident over the years and the moving around of priests to different parishes to hide the pedifile priests was just too much to bear. I started to look at other belief systems.
I looked at different denominations of Christianity, Judaism, eastern systems and even paganism. My search proved fruitless as they all had texts and so-called holy books for a place to fit. But they all had one thing in common, MAN. They were written by man in order to control the people. Revealed religions all taught of a fear of God. “Do what we tell you or you will be damned forever. God needs to be worshiped”. For a God that was supposed to be all caring, all loving and benevolent he/she was very vengeful. Something was just wrong. My belief was that a God that you had to fear just didn’t seem right.
I believe that a Supreme Being/Creator could not possibly be such a being. Throughout my readings one thing stood out. My belief was not unique. There were others like me; belief in a higher being who created everything and then let nature run its course. I found DEISM. The belief that a Creator God set everything in motion and just let it happen. That’s where I am today.
