The first and last time I was so shocked I couldn't say anything.

I was with my girlfriend and we were deciding what to do on Sunday which was a few days later. I was 17 years old. I mentioned I would be going to church Sunday morning.

She then asked me a question nobody had ever asked before. "Why do you go to church?" I did not expect that question, especially not from my favorite young lady. I couldn't answer the question. I couldn't say anything. Fortunately she eventually changed the subject and I was able to talk again.

I was never able to answer that question. Much later, for different reasons, I stopped going to church.

What a terrible waste of my youth to go to church every Sunday. All for what? To pray to a magic fairy that didn't exist. All the other bullshit like eating a tasteless wafer for the thing called Holy Communion. Only intense brainwashing could make this nonsense possible. 9 years in a Catholic school, kindergarten to 8th grade, being brainwashed by ugly nuns.

Fortunately I grew up and threw the bullshit in the garbage. Not everyone was so lucky. Several years later I saw somebody who was in my class at that disgusting school. After talking for awhile I realized he still believed everything. He never threw out any of it. I was very surprised because I assumed everyone else was able to figure out what I figured out. I never saw him again but he is probably still infected with the god disease.

It was not difficult for me to throw out the insanity. I don't understand why everyone can't see what is so obvious. There is no supernatural magic in the universe. Why would that be so difficult to understand?