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ABBA: Getting to know God the Father
My journey to discover God has been a long more than 60 years of experiences have led me to this point in my heavenly relationship, and I am describing this journey with chronological details. It hasn’t always been an easy meander, but I have shown you why it is necessary to persevere when you want to establish a true relationship with the Living God.
I grew up in Rome in the early 1960s, and the only possible knowledge about God was controlled exclusively by Catholic priests. Whatever nonsense they dished out was accepted as Gospel Truth, and as children we were also traumatized by my father’s illustrations of Gustav Dore’s Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The lithographs about Hell and Purgatory were terrifying for us as children, and we developed a warped idea of God as a vengeful deity, who plunged multitudes of souls into an eternal damnation of suffering, with Purgatory as a kind of sketchy sauna in which souls were ‘purged’ in steamy and smoke-filled furnaces. The images of Heaven with insipid by comparison, and we were left with a sensation of divine dread for any deity able to exact so much suffering on human souls.
This short booklet describes my journey from Dante’s Hell and back to Heaven through 50 years of searching from the presence of the Living God. It is gritty, rough around the edges and edgy. Nothing theological here but a true-life drama of a man in search for the truth while raging like a madman against the lunacy of church leaders, priests and nuns blowing incense smoke up my arse all the way.
I grew up in Rome in the early 1960s, and the only possible knowledge about God was controlled exclusively by Catholic priests. Whatever nonsense they dished out was accepted as Gospel Truth, and as children we were also traumatized by my father’s illustrations of Gustav Dore’s Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The lithographs about Hell and Purgatory were terrifying for us as children, and we developed a warped idea of God as a vengeful deity, who plunged multitudes of souls into an eternal damnation of suffering, with Purgatory as a kind of sketchy sauna in which souls were ‘purged’ in steamy and smoke-filled furnaces. The images of Heaven with insipid by comparison, and we were left with a sensation of divine dread for any deity able to exact so much suffering on human souls.
This short booklet describes my journey from Dante’s Hell and back to Heaven through 50 years of searching from the presence of the Living God. It is gritty, rough around the edges and edgy. Nothing theological here but a true-life drama of a man in search for the truth while raging like a madman against the lunacy of church leaders, priests and nuns blowing incense smoke up my arse all the way.
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2025
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