re: ridge in more trouble than gbs
Yes, I was also brought up in A cAtholic school and rejected the ritualsim. At 16, I signed out of the catholic school, and signed up at the govt school. Then I turned to satanism in my anger and youthful rebellion. By the time I was 24, I was lecturing at the Theosophical Society, having studied almost every religion and creed there was. My studies of parapsychology proved to me that there was something out there greater than us. I finally came full circle and realised that the God of the bible is true, only the catholics are misguided. I have seen the power of God move in miraculous healings in front of my very eyes.
If you are ever in a place where God moves and does something special, you will be left with absolutely no doubt that He is real. Its happened to me many times.
OK thats enough of my preaching. I try to refrain from it on HC, unless I see genuine truth seekers. I think you are one of them, you just havent realised it yet.
