My perspective

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Originally Posted by YP0534

I was raised Catholic and my mother, being very religious, intended from my birth that I should be a priest.

Well, she got her wish eventually!

Originally Posted by YP0534

All you need is love and Jesus was the one who said that best. I then undertook what I perceived to be the Christian obligation to propagate this profound realization that everyone just needs to love everybody to make everything work in the world. Consequently, I drove my friends and classmates nuts with my “peace and love” neo-hippy chatter.

I am still like this, in a way. My doctrines keep getting knocked around every time I get into a conversation, or look at another verse. I'm not a master like Lee at fitting the "jigsaw puzzle" into place. But I hold onto the notion of loving God, and loving one another. It's the "simple instruction" that I seem to always be able to remember. Even when I don't "feel very loving", I can always remember to respect others out of deference to the God who put them here.

Thanks for your sharing. I enjoyed it, as I usually do.