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Some of what you say is true, but my experience my be slightly different.
Born to an Irish Catholic family with a father who nearly entered the priesthood you would think that I would be a Catholic.
My last years in high school and a couple of years of college in the early 70s left me a recovering Catholic.
A few years with the "born agains" and I had experienced my fill. Next came some chanting with the Buddhists (very popular at the time).
4 years studying philosophy, my major in college left me with no further need for God. We had a deal, he left me alone and I left him alone.
20 years on my own produced bad marriages, parental irresponsibility, drug addition, moral decay, and financial success.
I had some money, a little power, a smooth presents that opened doors to all the right parties. I'm certain the Devil was proud.
I had a medical emergency that brought the train wreck to a halt and clarity I had not seen in years. A self inflicted, drug related injury is what it said on the admit form.. (in retrospect it sounds like a cry for help.)
Sobriety followed and a light was shone on a life that needed changes.
I had a chance to reconnect with a son I raised but did not father.
During the reconnect he held out his hand and asked if I would join him at a service on sunday.
You see, this one time Catholic had raised a Baptist and he wanted to share what he had found.
The connection was short because his version of God was not tolerant enough to except that a person could be good even if their beliefs were slightly different than the doctrine of their church.
There was a new found joy in my reconnect with God (my recovery, this one visit to his house and several subsequent conversations) but this time I choose to walk the path with guidance of life experience rather than organized religion.
My son, bless his heart is now a Baptist minister preaching to his own congregation.
My experience could have been different if I was born in a different place or time but being born in my time and place would not have predicted my path.