I was baptised as a Catholic, with no choice on it, of course. After switching religions, and moving around, I was put into a Catholic School, again, against my will. Here, we were yelled at by teachers, and by the priest (for I was an altar boy, though other than yelling, the priest never did anything inappropriate to me). More then once, they would yell at me, use God to scare me, would threaten eternal damnation on me, and so after witnessing and hearing enough of this, I saw the whole religion for what a hipocracy it was, and stopped believing. Was forced to attend Catholic School for 2 more years after that, against my will. For that time, I thought about and examined in my own mind everything that they were trying to shove down my throat, and the more I thought about it, the less it made sense to me.

For those two years, plus all of my high school experience, I had no faith, and no religion. I believed in nothing. After I graduated there, a friend got me interested in Paganism.

Paganism made sense to me, plus, I was allowed to think whatever I wish, to study whatever I wished to, and there was no one, not even any manual like the Christians had, to tell me how wrong I was. I also like being able to communicate with the Goddess and the God on my own terms, any time I wish, and not need any go-between or any specifically worded prayers. Another like of Paganism for me is the emphasis there is on the beauty of the naural world, and how everyone is connected to each other, each supporting each other on the giant Web of Life. Christianity gave me none of these things, and did not allow me to think for myself.

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