I can't say that I am an atheist. I am a person raised Christian who wants to believe but looking back over history and the violence perpetrated by the various organized religions. I am totally confused. I've even been so far as Ephesus in Turkey, praying along side Muslims at the simple stone home that a nun identified as the last home of Mary, mother of Jesus. I've been to Stonehenge, Canterbury, Westminster, the Vatican, the Great Mosque of Istanbul, even to the top of a mosque in Izmir, Turkey, where the Muslim call to prayer is sung. I I first heard the Islamic call to prayer at sunset when I was 17 and sitting in a floating restaurant in Istanbul. and the sky turned pink and purple. I am so confused. I am thinking of going back to the ancient roots of my Irish ancestors and beginning again.
All that i can say is that there is a universal spirit of humanity and I seek to be a part of it and foster it.