lying angel - silly ol' Gabriel - just musings

[drfuzzy]

But seriously.  Intelligent people listen to this crap and just nod and smile.  It's really horrifying to think that I did the same for 40 years.
Thanks for letting me rant.

So if you were intelligent, and this was such crap, how come it took you 40 years to come out of your closet?
How can you be so sure that you haven't migrated to another dark closet?

All of my closets are dark.  

But seriously.  I was playing for an Easter Vigil service and listening to the readings, and I realized that I didn't believe what I was hearing.
It was a cumulative path, of course.  I did some of my own comparative religion reading and philosophy and science and -- it apparently seeped in little by little.

But now I listen to Bible readings without the mindset of "ooh, GOD wrote this" that I was taught as a child.  So a lot of it now, I just listen and think "this is absolutely absurd".