What was this like?
It was good in some ways in that neither of my parents smoked or drank alcohol. This was the good part.
What was the bad part?
The bad part was that people didn't go to doctors in my church much and so I had to watch them die a lot when they should have lived.
Sort of like now with Coronavirus.
People were dying of things they shouldn't have died from. My father was an electrician and if you are not very pragmatic as an electrician or in any building trade you are soon maimed or dead. But, most people in my church were not like this and so they died like flies in the 1950s. I had a more scientific approach to life like my Dad did. But, this didn't extend to medical doctors only electrical, electronic and mechanical things. You might see this as a paradox but this was my family after all in how they thought.
I survived whooping cough (because I didn't have a vaccine to protect me) because they didn't believe in ANY vaccines for anything. Was this good or bad? The whooping cough I almost died from was pretty bad but mostly not getting vaccines at all gave me an 1800s immune system of herd immunity that is much stronger than anyone I have met except for one friend from church who also is still my friend and has this incredible immune system. He even got malaria in Pakistan and India and survived being in a coma over there for a long time and coming out of it okay. So, he is fine today.
I have survived all sorts of things that should have killed most other people because I have this incredible immune system from never having any vaccines growing up at all. My first shot was when I was 15 for tetanus because an old blind dog bit my hand on a job I was working on with my father.
Several things happened that moved me away from my parents life that I grew up in. First of all, I"m very logical and pragmatic like my father. So, if something isn't logical and reasonable then it is suspect of being baloney.
One by one the things that didn't make sense in my life I had to let go of if I didn't find a use for them.
However, God I found useful because without God in my life I would have died many many times already. What I found wasn't useful was churches in general.
I didn't find God in Churches usually at all (except for a church in Paris, France where angels came up to me and told me how to behave on Rue du Bac in Paris where Saint Catherine de Laboure's sainted body lies alongside two other saints there. There are very few churches where angels have appeared to me except for that one by the way.
She struck a Mary Miraculous medal that millions still wear today.
So, Do I believe in God and Jesus and Mary and Saints and Angels and Archangels. Yes! Because I experience them all the time in my life. Do I believe in organized religion and churches? Not so much. Because my experience teaches me that churches are mostly about money and not much else in my personal experience.
By God's Grace
Note: However, I don't think that everyone else has my experience with all of this. Other people are completely welcome to their own points of view. It's just that this is mine. And my experience is very unlikely to change at this point in my life.
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