Going Back & Finding Nothing There

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Welcome aboard. I had a similar experience when I again stepped into a church. Twenty-odd years ago an old girl friend wanted to go to a midnight Christmas Eve Mass. For the prior fifteen years the only time I attended church were for weddings and funerals, two institutions that I see has huge rackets. During the Christmas service I looked around and realized what a cabal religion was. The rituals that in my youth I took seriously, appeared comical and down right ridiculous. Who in a rational state can watch a man in a funny costume chanting and burning incense and take what he's doing seriously. That's the moment I knew I was a 'heathen.'

I would consider myself lucky that no one has tried to contact you. If you look at the other side of the coin, they could be applying the full-court press to lure you back into the fold. Obviously they don't take the soul saving business as seriously as the Mormons. I say this because it took my wife seven years to excommunicate herself from the temple of Smith and Young.

It can be disheartening that people you believed in let you down, but, that cuts across all folds and has nothing do to with religion. People are generally pricks, and if you snub their believes or feelings, they can take it personally.

Anyway, congrats on having the courage to break away from the indoctrination and follow your heart/brain.