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lark

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6. Childhood to now is a total change.

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 10:52 AM

Jan 2019

I was raised in a Independent Southern Baptist family with dad a deacon & bus driver and mom a Sunday school teacher. Religion was basically my life, went to church almost all day Sunday (8:30-1 and 5:30-8; Wed. nights from 7-9 and Thurs. nights from 6-8:30. Now, I am an agnostic. I went to a Lutheran church, at my daughters' request, for a few years and they were much better than the Baptists, but their drive for money turned us off so we left there. I really don't believe in God, the Bible, Jesus - although there are many good moral admonitions in there. Because of my strict religious upbringing, i admit to a fear of hell but also realize it's not rational. I believe in a higher power that arcs towards good, but don't know that it has a name.

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