The Influence of Bertrand Russell on My Faith in Religion

Bertrand Russell is a beautiful writer. And I took... My parents weren't really terribly religious, but they did bring me up in the church. There was growing tension in my mind between the things we were getting exposed to in Catechism class. It dawned on me that probably these writings are just what they look like. They're kind of people not very sophisticated, trying to come to grips with the world and so that was very deflating.