Let's Pretend

As a kid in the 1940s on Saturday mornings I listened to a radio program called “Let’s Pretend.”  It was “make believe” and we knew that it was a pretend program.  The following link to a Wikipedia article describes the show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Pretend

The Catholic Church was my other “make believe” program. The difference: I considered the beliefs of the Church as though they were facts.  Thankfully, I was able to free myself from religious indoctrination and lead a life in which I searched for the truth and for authentic meaning wherever that search led me.  In a earlier blog post “Juan Carlos Onetti's "A Brief Life" the narrator said, “I saw the sad; I saw all those who will die without knowingthemselves(129).” I argue that a person cannot know herself / himself if the "make believe" of a religion is clutched by the person for a lifetime.  The search cannot begin until the “Let’s Pretend” of a religion ends.