I was born into a poor family. My father was raised a sharecropper and only attained a fourth grade education. My mother was raised on a farm and only finished the eighth grade. Despite this, my parents did well. My father became an assembly line worker, making a sufficient salary to provide for my mother and me. After graduating from high school, I obtained a college degree and began by career. As I was growing up, I always considered my parents to be Christians even though my father never went to church and my mother only went sporadically. When I was young, I attended church occasionally wi...