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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

My father was very outwardly religious.

When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

My father was an agnostic.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.