I was brought up to be methodist by my parents. I attended church off and on until I was 16. I was very bored of Christianity... Contridictions abound everywhere. Was Jesus the son or the father? How can someone give birth to himself??? I was always told by preachers that I am being punished for my sins. How can a two year old have sin? (I had a stroke at age 2.) I was 13 when my sister had an abortion. Now, my sister a christian was semi-religious... is this the example I was to follow? No. I gradually slid into agnostism.

At age 16 I split with Christianity and proclaimed to be an atheist. This too was not quiet right either. There were Biblical stories of floods and prophets. These were corroberated with historical facts. OK, was I wrong??? By age 18 I drifted to strict agnostism. I drifted into depression and started to use drugs. I attempted suicide two times.

When I started college in the very early 90's I started to come up with my own cosmology (Biblical based) I grudingly accepted Lutheranism as my religion and attended a Lutheran College. After 3 weeks at Concordia, I KNEW I was wrong and promptly left the school and renounced Christianity once and for all. About 2 years of searching The Truth reared its head - Islam. Islam was my cosmology (just no Idea it existed until 1994)

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