Activist and philanthropist Todd Stiefel of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation tells us his story of leaving faith behind in this special issue of Free Inquiry. I came to understand that my god was simply the one that had been passed down to me by my ancestors. I was the descendant of people who had been subjugated by followers of El/Yahweh/Jesus. My god was not even the original one; he was just the modern form of gods that had merged and evolved over millennia. He was a god that was predated by the gods of hundreds of cultures. My god was younger than the pyramids. I had always accepted that all other religions simply believed in false deities that had been handed down to them. I finally recognized that my religion was no different. Catholicism is no more true or false than any other religion.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:45:05 +0000
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