Dr. J. Budziszewski

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.