Evolution of My Thoughts

About the Book

This is an autobiographical sketch of selected events, with emphasis on church memberships and experiences, which affected my religious philosophy that evolved into my present convictions that all major world religions and their underlying written documentation are the works of men, to some of whom divine inspiration is attributed; that their deities are either nonexistent fabrications of the authors, interpreters, and practitioners of their particular religions, or human beings who claim to be divine, or prophets of a deity or deities, or who were determined by their followers to be such; and some related essays.

About the Author

I was born in Houston, Texas, November 22, 1926, and graduated from Russellville, Arkansas, High School, May,1944. I served in the US Marine Corps, November, 1944, to July, 1947. I served as a Japanese translator in Tientsin, China, January, 1946, to May, 1947. I Received a Juris Doctor Degree, from Tulsa University in 1951, practiced law in Oklahoma and Arkansas. I was elected municipal judge, Pope County, Arkansas, for eight years, and as a delegate to the 1969–70 Arkansas Constitutional Convention. In 1974 I was appointed administrative law judge, OHA, SSA, DHHS, with assignments in Macon, Georgia; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Little Rock, Arkansas. I retired in December 1997.