The Religion of Life and Death
My formative years included strict adherence to the Baptist religion. There was never an excuse to not show up for Sunday School because there was an old bus that was used to pick us all up to go to church. Some of my neighborhood friends also went to my church. We often tried to recruit other friends from the neighborhood. Of course recruitment was an important goal, because it brought in more who could donate. In boot camp for the U.S. Navy, Sunday was still set aside as a day for rest as an adherence to religion. These Sundays were the only days we looked forward to, because any other day was just a day of being broken down and built back up to be good sailors. I don't think I've attended church since graduating Navy boot camp. This does not mean that I've lost my religion. I simply do not subscribe to organized religion. What is the history of religion? We know there were polytheistic periods long before the Abrahamic religions which brought us ...