Commentary
As a former atheist who has been a reasonably practicing Roman Catholic for 51 years, I hope I will be pardoned a few Easter thoughts.
I didn’t desert non-belief with a burning fire of Revelation, but because I concluded that spiritual forces were abroad in the world and that there was thus probably a divine intelligence that could perhaps be propitiated. There have been a number of divinely inspired people, and there’s no reason to doubt that the most famous such person advised St. Peter to found a church, whose most likely current continuator is the Church of Rome. I’m an adherent to the school of religion being a personal matter that one rarely discusses other than with specialists in the field or intimates. My partial departure from that practice now is not to inflict theological thoughts on the reader but to reflect on the status of religious belief and institutions today, after they’ve received a sequence of heavy blows.
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