heh, I hear that about your raising...
a LOT of people say \"it\'s just how you were raised\" a lot of people seem to think that I\'m a druid because my family were druids and their family were druids, either that or my family didn\'t push religion on me enough, or something along that lines...
my family is made up of devout nazarenes and baptists(and yes, I know those are conflicting terms, we have arguments over it every thanksgiving and cristmas) when I was 13 I was born again. All that good gravy stuff... However, when I went to job corps, I looked at a few religious texts and realised that a lot of things in any writing in the christian faith contradicted themselves. How can a man respect his wife and have her subservient to him at the same time for example? and so I started reading every religious paper I came across, and the one that made the most sence to me was \"by oak ash and thorn\", I forget the author, but it was part of the lewellyn collection. in essence it was a textbook that explained the histories of the gaelics, the ways of the celtic shamans, natural order and balance.
I studied this for a while, and then found another book that drew it all into perspective for me, \"the 21 lessons of merlin.
I combined my knowledges of other religions with what I read about druidry and found my own middle ground, which is most largely based off of the druidic teachings
