Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.
Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.
“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.
Your position seems condescending to me.
It sounds like you want religion to constrain other people’s worldviews, but as an atheist you don’t want to be constrained by it yourself.
Not trying to put words in your mouth, but that’s how it comes across.
Rules for thee and not for me.