Living in the Question
My mother was First Christian. Dad had been raised Catholic and then, as he would put it when the conversation came around to religion, went to war. In my formative years I went to base chapels and then turned to philosophy. I believe. I just refuse to limit that belief. In college I discovered Reciprocity as a construct of social psychology . And if I have a belief system which guides my life that is it. That has had a major impact on my life because I fail to understand those that condemn or restrict or declare without latitude. I have continued to study the history of religions because it is within religions you most often see a rigid condemnation of others. Religionists are your zealots, your fundamentalists, your condemners of all who do not believe as they do. Religionists have nothing to do with faith or spirituality and often are counter to good moral practice. I find them very scary whether base of worship is Islam or Christianity. I find them scary be...