My God-Story is what by some accounts may seem very simple. I was raised catholic, and attended catholic school through 8th grade. During high school, I began to question what the meaning behind all the rules and requirements were- as any typical adolescent would do. Sing it louder to show you're prouder was the only thing I learned in 8 years of catholic school. Repeat after everone else, dress sharp, and pick up hot ham and rolls on the way home to watch the football games on Sundays. The only problem I had was that the more I started to ask about 'church', the more I received the same answers that were somewhere between, 'because God said so' and 'that's just the way it is'. Needless to say, this didn't sit well with me. Over the next several years I was driven away from the very concept of religion in general. I had taken a World Religions class in college several years later, and approached it with a closed mind and a highly skeptical approach to understaning. I was much more focused on why one version of the teachings referenced 5,000 troops, and the other referenced 10,000 for the same historical incident. How there could be so many discrepencies about the same events taking place depending on the version you happen to buy. Why I needed to listen to someone who paid to go to school and wear a traditional outfit, doing the same traditional thing every Sunday had any right to tell me what the readings should mean to me. Here's where the simplicity comes in...

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