First, my apologies if I repeat myself sometimes. In some
places, I will go into details, and at others I will
do a few words and go into detail elsewhere. I have always had an interest in religion, and related
subjects. My mum took me to Salvation Army meetings when I was a child. My
next brush with religion was when my mum attended a spiritualist meeting, and
had her wedding ring stolen! In the RAF I learnt
about hypnotism, and went on to read a lot about paranormal subjects. You can
read of the details on my personal web site www.tedaylward.com
Over the years I developed my
ideas about Tedism, and freewill. More recently, I have
somehow been drawn to pulling all the ideas together, and
rationalising them. Once a month, here, we have a Christian service, and for
company, and to hear the music, I attended. This was for about four months,
when I felt uncomfortable, and ceased to attend. It wasn’t
until Christmas last (2005) that it dawned on me why I felt uncomfortable. For fifty years I have said, “I would give my right arm
to have a religion.” I believed that I would get support through my bad
domestic times by having a faith within me. This eluded me because I could
find no logic, or common sense in any faith. I have
spent hundreds of hours talking to people of various faiths, debating the
principles of their religion. However, last Christmas, watching the TV, a
thought came to me. I pictured a boy of about six years old, being told by his mother, “Come on son, put up your
stocking, and get to bed early, for Father Christmas will be coming over the
rooftops in his sleigh, pulled by the reindeer.” The little boy looks up to
his mother and just says, “That’s silly!” Note, he didn’t go into the
logic of how it was impossible for Father Christmas to do this. Moreover, it
struck me that instead of all the debates that I had had over the years, I
should have just said to them all, “That’s silly!” Why could I not have a faith? Because none made any
sense. So, in pulling all my ideas together, they
had to make sense. I started from an assumption of faith, the existence of a
‘God’, but that thereafter all proposals had to make sense. What evolved was
Tedism.
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