Deirdre Geraghty

I haven’t been a Christian for a very long time but the fear of the Devil and of hell were put firmly in my head when I was a child. How much of it was my Catholic upbringing and how much the Denis Wheatley books and television l couldn’t tell you but I remember being crucified each time we played tag in my Catholic infant school which is quite gruesome for a five year old. The Devil and hell were in my head quite early and very hard to shift and I still feel fear when I think of them even though I no longer believe they are real.