I won’t be doing the same, but I understand degrees of nostalgia.

Also, I've begun writing my memoirs and I could use a memory boost from those years of my life.

The church to anything positive, it was merely a vessel for other facets it had homogenized into a power nexus (my early awareness of this led to many punishments from an early age, thus confirming the invalidity and erasing the nostalgia value). Many others do not have an experience that rough, and I am glad that those that didn’t suffer from it were able to remain happy with their situation even if it evolved or they ended up departing from their church or religion.

thanks to the church. That's what a significant portion of my memoirs is about. But the church's deleterious effect was, in large part, indirect. It taught me that everything was God's will and that that was not to be questioned.

I experienced it both directly and indirectly, even into adulthood after declaring my independence from it.