Dr. J. Budziszewski
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And I'm always grateful.
They taught me the gospel and taught me to reverence the scripture and all kinds of other stuff.
My grandfather, I think, was the first Baptist pastor of a Polish-speaking church in the United States.
So that was... We talked for hours about these things.
But I abandoned it all.
Then I'm in the wastelands for a long time.
Then I came back to a Protestant faith, but it wasn't Baptist.
There was a reason for that.
And then realized this can't be right and became Catholic.
Now, there was a question there.
Why not stay Protestant?
Oh, well.
Well, this has to do partly with the reasons why when I returned to faith, I didn't just return to being a Baptist.
I was brought up a lot of Baptist.
Relations between Protestants and Catholics have changed very much over the years.
And lots and lots of, I had lots and lots of Baptist friends who know perfectly well that this isn't true.
But I was brought up to believe that, you know, Catholics weren't Christians at all.
And that they're idol worshipers and that they think the Pope is some kind of a God and every word that drops from his lips is gospel truth.
Okay, we know that isn't true.
Ironically, it was during my wasteland years when I was a nihilist that I read a lot of Catholic stuff that I had never read before.