The full title of this book is How to See Religion Differently: What questioning your beliefs can reveal, and why it can lead to a healthy mind. The book is by Luke Pemberton who was raised Catholic and questioned his beliefs (or at least what he was told to believe) as he got a bit older.

I think that questioning your beliefs is a good thing. Different folks will decide different things. Religion makes sense to many people. Others will decide that religion or maybe a particular religion is not for them.

Like Luke, I was raised Catholic and questioned the teachings as I got older and decided the Catholic faith was not for me. We reached the same conclusion but my journey was very different.

Luke felt guilty for questioning what he was told to believe. I did not. I don’t know if the difference was in parenting, education, or specific experiences in his parish. I could understand his feelings although it was not at all like my experience.

I read this on my Kindle and I’ll say more about that in a minute. First I want to thank Netgalley for a chance to read this an Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

So these comments might relate the ARC rather than the book itself. Amazon lets you download a free sample so check that to see if it is acceptable to you if you are thinking about eis book.

I was not big fan of the illustrations in the book. First of all they were very small so I could not read them on the Kindle. I found the iPad Kindle app allowed me to enlarge them but the resolution was fairly low and the enlarged images with text were often hard to read.

This may not be true of the final product so if you are interested in this book, please look at the sample first. I have no idea if the print version has this problem.

I enjoyed reading this book and I hope you will too.