Why be good?

[Randy Carson]

I don't really see how it's relevant. My parents have been baptist, mothodist, and nondenominational at different points in my life. My exhusband is catholic, but he's also Guatemalan and his church has a lot of odd superstitious beliefs that I never saw in American Catholic Churches.

Yes, the Central and South American Catholics do have a lot of devotions that border on or cross over into superstition.

However, I think it is fair to say that the Baptists, Methodists (that was me) and the non-denominational churches ALSO have a lot of things going on that you would not see in your typical American Catholic Church.

Hell is something to be taken very seriously, but not something with which parents should frighten small children.

Now that you are an adult, I think you could easily read the New Testament for yourself, and come to a real appreciation for how much Jesus loves you. This message may not have been communicated to you when you were small.