Excerpt From Michael Easley’s Testimony

“The more I read about the church fathers and about Catholic dogma, the more questions I started asking. Now, I can’t remember exactly when I started reading the bible, but I know by ninth grade I was reading it. I hit this fork in the road. I was saying, ‘Wait a minute. The Bible says this, but the Catholic church does that.’ So in the mix of all this, there were a lot of priests that I talked to. Because there were a lot of priests in our lives. And I probably talked to eight or ten priests over time. 

By the time I got to college, I had a friend named Danny File who was God’s instrument to provoke me out of Catholicism. He didn’t get me out of the church, but he got me clarified on what I believe. I was still very Catholic in a lot of things like you could lose your salvation. I also believed that you need to do penance and do the rosary. Danny would gently provoke me. He had a great sense of humor. We backpacked together, climbed, and hiked together. We spent a lot of time under the hood of a car. He’s a wonderful man.

Danny and I ended up in a room in college. We were building a set of bunk beds in his apartment, and he put a light on his bunk bed. I asked him why he put a light on  his bunk bed. He responded, ‘To read my bible at night.’ I’m thinking to myself, who reads their Bible at night? But, I decided I was game to read our Bibles together. So I rummaged through and got my New American Catholic Bible out of the box. He’s up on the top bunk and we’re reading two entirely different versions, of course. We’re arguing about what the Bible says on the bunk beds. We did this almost every night.”

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