18.05.12

As a little one attending a local Catholic grade school, I was taught that Jesus was my Savior and that Catholicism was the one steady faith.

I felt comforted and secure in knowing I would one day see all like-minded believers in empyrean.

Even though I eventually became what’s known as an Easter/Christmas Catholic, faith was never far from my guard.

Now, years later, I again enjoy participation in a wide variety of Eclectic and Protestant church services but the pulpit’s message has remained the same: Christianity is the one, verified faith that will lead me to eternal life.

I am no longer comforted by nor agreeable with such a doctrine.

My belief that I belonged to the one, true faith took a about in 1994 when I traveled to Nepal, a tiny, poor country nestled adjacent the Himalayan mountains between India and China.

Spirited to enter a foreign world, I was eager to experience the cultural and unerring differences between countries.

The majority of Nepalese practice Hinduism and assume in one ultimate God-head (Brahman) along with other gods Vishnu and Shiva (a trinity of sorts).

Source: Youngstown Vindicator

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