Darwin Gregory:  

Life After graduation I joined the Marines. I met my ex-wife in 1980 and we got married, raised two fine sons and after twenty-some years got divorced. I am regaining the love of life that I enjoyed in my youth as I escape the bonds of what I had convinced myself I needed to do in order to be a good husband and father. I wish I had rediscovered myself earlier... Anyone who knew me would probably remember Darwin in high school as a searcher, and in my senior year getting involved in Buddhism... and would be surprised to discover that I became involved in reformed christian doctrine, and served as a deacon in two churches, and a sunday school teacher in three churches, and a sunday school director in one church... I had convinced myself that church was the right thing to do, and even though I served in so many ways, I never really could accept the basic doctrines of the churches, even though I studied them and taught them. As a person who is now openly agnostic, it would be hard for anyone talking to me to believe that I once played a role as a devout Christian... I do appreciate some of the moral convictions that were strengthened during those times, but even the Christian reasons for being moral was not something I could accept, even though I can easily accept the pragmatic portions of biblical te...Expand for more