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I didn't take any sort of theology classes in college. I took things here and there. I wasn't interested because I knew it was slanted. I won't say anything more than that. This happened to my oldest daughter that merely took a World religion class and she finally dropped out.



When I was little I went to the Church of Christ which is now on the list of cults by others. I have been surrounded by many faiths including Jehovah's Witnesses and Four Square and found them fascinating in their own right. The main Scientology Compound isn't far from here. Part of it looks like a castle. There is a man online that was teaching me things about Hinduism. He lives in India although in college I took Ancient Asian history that went into all of that, among others. I've gotten the spiritualism view of it all which is somewhat similar to Universalism. Hung out with Mormons at various times in my life. I went to a stake once to a service but my main interest was geneology. It is part of their belief system to find their family line and have them sealed by proxy. Mine was just to find out about relatives and heritage. So I use to go to this really big geneological seminar at a stake in Hemet, CA every year but after awhile I was too busy to attend. I don't know if they are still holding it.



I did refer a friend at the time who was Native American. I don't remember now all of his background. He was card carrying but didn't live on the reservation but some of his family did. He was part Nespers. He looked German and his daughter had blond hair. At one point he was the manager of the Indian cultural center in Riverside, CA. I love going to pow wows. He was trying to trace his family line because here they made them take English names at the turn of the century so they didn't really know who they were related to very far back. I think his name was Robert Brown. I don't remember now it's been awhile but he went to the next seminar and he was able to find family members. I had seen a showcase there on tracing Native American family lines the year prior.



I attended a Seventh Day Baptist church which was held on Saturday and they would rent out a church of some other denomination to hold service. It was in Covina and then Azusa. The Pastor lived in Rialto and I loved going to their home. Even at that time I considered myself Pagan but kept it to myself. I don't believe in the Trinity and a few other things. It doesn't matter though, sometimes things are learning experiences. It was such a small congregation that we all went to lunch together afterward. Generally the younger people went. I was around 40 then. I use to get the heebeegeebees (if you don't know what that means it means:

the feeling of adrenalin rushing up your spine when scared) when he would do his sermons because very often it seemed like he had read my mind and they all related to me in one way or another.



My Dad was Catholic and so was my last husband who died, my youngest daughter and my Mother in Law. I am sure his father was too. He was born in Dublin, Ireland but had passed just before I met my husband. It doesn't matter what you believe as long as it is a learning experience in how to treat other people properly. That's how I look at it. I met many interesting people and learned a lot of things. It didn't require my belief to learn something from others. I am very eclectic now. I had a friend in Salt Lake I lost track of who was Mormon and told me a lot of things but he kept running into Satanists there which surprised me, one in particular was Lord Egan. I knew who he was from the BHOD. He use to post often. I like to learn about things and I don't have a problem with what others believe unless they use it for harm.



I even had a respite family, actually two of them that were Jewish. The last one would have me over on Fridays and I got to see their ceremony that is done at sunset for Sabbath. It was lighting candles and the Mother said some things. You let the candles burn out. They would go to Temple while I was with their twins. It was very interesting. I even had a family that was Muslim. I enjoyed the lady days filled with great food. I don't know everything about these groups and some seem to be different by family and location. I know when my cousin died she had a wake and I don't think my Aunt was actually Mormon but there are many there and they came in and were very kind to her and helped the family. I was devastated because she was an only child and the only cousin I knew well. I was fairly young when this happened. It was in Idaho. It doesn't matter what you believe it matters how you treat other people and family.



I love Contemporary Christian music which covers almost any type of genre you could think of but it is done in a way that is not crude. Of course some is more hymnal but those never bothered me either. I went so often in San Bernardino/Riverside counties that I was dubbed by the local music station that represented it all as the "Concert Lady." I even knew the representative from Word Music. I never told them I wasn't Christian, it didn't matter really. So you see all of that is relative...It is like here where some say they get emails because they express a little about what they believe. What someone believes is private and why they don't want all of that in the forum. I'm no scholar on religions or all the practices although I have made it a research project somewhat. One must follow the Golden Rule and that says it all.

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Snowbelle
02:02 Aug 20 2011

By how long your entry is, i can tell that you have a lot going on and that you like to write

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I don't want to be judgmental or opinionated so sometimes I have days I just can't stomach reading any profiles or those dang articles in the database, LOL. I'm sorry but some of them are so ill researched and still continue to spout things that have been proven not to be correct in premise over time. Like finding something by the person that clears up any conjecture to facts yet there are those that STILL don't know. Eh, blah blah blah. I can't hear you.