Grew up in a semi-religious home, brief spurts of religious fervor throughout his younger days. Was baptized in a pool. Church meetings were held at his grandparent’s place where the children were taught in one area and the adults in another.

The “falling away” began in his youth when questions concerning why god would choose a certain people for salvation yet leave so many outside this true religion. Real doubts began when going through college for Philosophy. Met his current wife who tossed in a struggle to determine which church is true: hers or his. No conversion either way occurred. In medical school the constant call for evidence swayed him along with no real “good” arguments for god could stand up to scrutiny.