I was the only member of my immediate family to go to church because I was invited to attend with the family of my best friend in grade school. The rigid thinking of my confirmation pastor, followed by an affair with a married woman by my next pastor, caused me to leave organized religion.
I considered myself agnostic for many years until I reached an understanding that I was blaming fallable representatives of my religion as some sort of "proof" that God is a farce. (Why is everyone doing the g*d thing)?
I have found my place with a supreme being that doesn't fit within any one organized religion. I wasn't force fed religion like Danny Boy, but perhaps he can return to his faith, as he defines it, by choice.
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