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In reply to the discussion: Happy Sunday! I won't be in church today. [View all]DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I am glad you are a recovering Catholic and happily divorced. Quitting smoking is a lot harder than quitting an indoctrination or a marriage, but well worth it.
I am a devout atheist. I don't know the answers. I'm not going to spend my short life trying to find out all the answers. No one will ever know the answers. I never believe people or institutions that pretend they do know.
When my daughter was three, she look up at her father with serious eyes and asked, "Dad, how do you spell god?" Excited, thinking he had given birth to the next Dali Lama, he said, "g-o-d." The she asked, "How do you spell Zilla." I knew I had a good little thinker.
One of my favorite students just left this world to become a monk and eventually a priest. It broke my heart, but I cant imagine him doing anything else.
My principal used to tell our elementary school children to wear "their Sunday best" on school on picture day until I threatened to wear my nightgown.