- QUESTION: Is there such a thing es being NATURALLY. | religious? 1 believe that I am. . unt: to: me, a it they. were also © VOR - Wpsetting because, first’ of all, 1 just. couldn’t agree with some of the things our pastor taught and I ‘couldn’¢. agree: : but opal unable ¢ to confer - With. as, “let. : Mowe - explore ideas. with t as. He: Was 60 set! church: At Girst I felt: ‘kind of . lost and-at loose ends; . ‘but then I met a fellow ‘who really... . impressed 1 me asa friend and — asan exceptional person. a oe ‘He | was. really together. BUT, hhe held that the church | was useless and. most Chris- - tian teachings were unsound ~ and unbelievable and: men. sonable. He strenghened my separation from church. I felt . better about it.- I mean t felt - better about leaving it. “He said he was ‘agnostic -. and without hardly. knowing — what it meant, that’s what-I- became. OK, that was eight or nine, years age ‘and: ali during that time I have’ sort : of scoffed at religion. But: you - TI | te a | Froelance: Géuneotion. Hayao ° “Broward ‘dood pirivata-counsel-: sing: de wait os a ee] deat at’. b sale. iene aa Question: va = bei Kida ‘and all i well'as far aa faintly goes. What bothers: . cme. about: me is I -seom to . drop? friends « although J. dont really want:to. 1 make — eed felonds . and becom es . me Lewes 5 | . “clear to-me. lately - ‘that: all: along: during these eight. rly years im the church years, [have never really felt: QUESTION: It’s. my ‘ marri- age that Hes‘ heavy on me. Te __. married this man because of | _ his good judgement and good. ae heart, ‘two qualities I though _ were essential for a durable © '" partnership. 1. accepted to” be. in: his: boat”? and to have ° 5 him as. the skipper. Soon | ; “ ‘scattered (staying, ‘Up ey ae shuffling ideas on. how: : tiie : ; mh iar have. pyrite mae ars? As: soon, y ee ana’) wait flo and: yet |: are ue for: “eal want ie de. Thon Ljust® © "phone “ond: ¢ un, Un ct or "Dotis "Se ei tit SE gust again’ ane Ine telendl undl WO badly a ace ' goed about my stand and © - mow I knew. that I really felt i¢ was” temporary. and ‘that F- ‘would ‘someday. -“eome -. beck?.°1 would” mot. ‘have. admitted it then,: but I know ve now - ‘that i also. felt sort of : ‘know Pm writing too” i much, but. here’s. my: ques>~ tions ‘Does. At make. sense for: ee! me to. kind of. ‘explore my - ‘religious tendencies. without - find what Fr want without telling people? That's what — - Pd'like to de, but it seems wrong tome to- hide : my. religion. . | want ‘to ‘come back??, on ‘but I want to do it privately and slowly and in: my own ‘STEWART: Your | ‘‘explor-— ing’’: and ‘‘experimenting”’ and “‘thinking’” cannot be. done: ‘in: a better way. than... “privately and slowly”’ and in your" ‘own way’ . In your Fe e@ fpersen; | one. who - verything,.. SBys-. right and does | - everyth . everything right. Believe me * ~ ft-can be very exhausting to : live ‘with a perfect person but Rot Ampossible._ POPE, ‘Now, L ‘think. the. ‘skipper ‘has lost his ‘compass! When to get rich and. how ‘to | save the:. children: of the. world, ~~ efe.] 1" think | we've’ lost: direction. } fear that a: man. with’ a. Melted: education who. never opens a book and has: only: average © -will-power te mot: well-equipped: to achieve: “tor ; ; aay of- these goals.1 cannot Share’ may. ‘thoughts with him... } Te te’ very: hard:.to: talk toa | rfect?? ‘person: “1 tell myself: iife' will teach: hhien | a) _ ledeon, but will he: be able to .. take’ . fall? ‘When I ‘think, . “in otteck, call tin day. Yuny to. mydelf, “Gee Pd lke to see. ‘good old Doris again’’, bat Tl dome Ita: flager. Why do I. do that? ‘What's the matter. with, met | ae mat ter Lit you) why peat with shoei q aye ae rey _ iod it makes: good. sense not. - result: of your searclring.. If’ oR -you feel happier ‘or: more ; vm tive it was _Wednesday”’ - | oo . -_ way.. Surely that s OK. “".. that fellow ain’t very sure at. “The electric. mow er with “maneuverabi r iy, _. all and is probably wonder- way. Elike it! a along these lines, (better growing ‘and. searching per- to. “go public’’ too soon as | far as. your | ‘beliefs and § - convictions are concerned. They: are: YOURS! ‘What you should not try to ‘hidé is new. attitudes and - feelings that. develop | in you as a _ loving or more unselfish or: more. responsible, do not. hide those feelings, but. rather give them full freedom in their. maturing. In one. sense it. could well be that ALL of us are. ‘‘naturally. - teligious’’. It.is our dogmati- cally . self-righteous, holier- than-thou. attitude .. that. seems to me to be “‘unnatur- al’’. The fellow who keeps. saying, “It was Wednesday, not Tuesday, I’m sure it was Wednesday. oe -UMITED °——s—‘“ Sr OUTSIDE » ing to be a swinimer: But not 7 , 200. sgn. Mi Coe ‘ inty Bird 8s any Bird : | 1 Sas st) not Sale Price. ‘S ‘Sale: Price 6a. QUESTION: is soarlage, thing of the. past ee ‘STEWARD on ‘yes. For. | example, for almost 44 years: of .my’ past TV have, been. ~ married’: ‘Martiage is also a” thing ‘of::the, present ‘and. a thing of the future. . op ae