Is there a religion out there that is THE one? As far as I can see any religion you choose is run by, made by, governed by human beings. I think the REAL naive thing would be to say that there is a religion out there that has rules that you can believe in across the board. If all of the followers of any religion blindly followed all of its teachings then that religion would never change or evolve in any way. I am not the role model Catholic by any means but as I said in another post, I believe that I will be judged more by how I treat others than how I followed a set of man/woman-made rules.

I find comfort in prayer. My wife is a Lutheran, I am a Catholic and we got married in a Methodist Church! Just what church we go to depends I guess, we've been to them all!! But, when I go, I am able to take comfort in the service, in the prayers, and in the music.

I agree about the pressures put out by the Catholic Church but they are not the only ones. Many religions depend on followers who have the blind faith you were referring to. Many depend on guilt and fear. What it really adds up to is manipulation and I don't like it even if it is in my own religion. The bottom line is (for me that is...), my relationship with God is a personal one. It is not dictated by people who try to decide what I should do with my life, when or where I should pray, and who I should or should not be intimate with. I respect their right to interpret the "word of God" differently than me, I just don't feel the need to go blindly down that path. It didn't make me a bad family member and it doesn't make me a bad Catholic.

Frank