TD I said the same but DD has Aspergers & follows all rules to the letter of the law. So, she is doing what she is doing...

TD: I grew up in a very very stifiling fundamentalist Christian home (My Mum was a fundy Christian). From an extremely young age I could not understand why it was so "wrong" to follow a different Spirituality. I also didn't see by the adults around me that religion equated to spirituality. I could see many religious people who didn't seem very nice to me. (including my own mother!).

I couldn't understand why tribes in South America living happily according to their cultural customs needed to be ministered to by people, some of which didn't seem to have it together at all!

I couldn't see that sprinkling a baby with water was any more wierd than chanting etc etc.

This caused a fairly major panick - which resulted in a full immersion of baptisim and many people praying for my soul! I was and still am I believe seen as a version of the anti Christ. So, that began my own mission. To seek out my own Spirituality and my own Truth.

I am an extremely Spiritual Woman - as are we all. I h1ave `learnt that there is a Truth for us all and it will be different.

When DD began an obsession with Catholicisim I challenged her LOUDLY!!!! To seek out and independently investigate all Faiths. I could see her obsession with Catholicisim was very much hinging on wanting to be the same as her fathers family - not from a deep belief.

She did. When she came accross Islam she said in my words to her that it "sang to her heart"...

So, while it sings to her heart I will support it and her. I see Islam as a beautiful Faith and I don't fear it like her father and his Christian family.

Independent investigation of her Truth is what is important to me...