Having read Macbee (Main Forum)

by Enda, Eastwood, Australia, Monday, June 11, 2012, 10:34 (343 days ago) @ Macbee

Hi Macbee. I was replying to James and trying to explain why I still believe in God even though I suspect he is right that the Church may be beyond reform.

While I believe in God it is not the horrible God I grew up with. The God I grew up with was like Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984 always looking over my shoulder waiting for me to do something wrong then arranging a sudden and unprovided death for me. I grew up with a frightening, mean God whose only interest was in making me behave myself.

I found eventually that if that is what God is like I do not believe in him.

Gradually through the psalms and other bits of scripture and through Teresa of Avila and a few other mystics (not all of them Catholic and not all of them Christian) I found a God who is Protector and so many other things that make my life worthwhile.

And though my writing may sometimes sound a bit rough I am one of the least bitter people I have ever met.

And don't worry about your spelling. The message gets through okay.

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