All things considered, I believe that I grew up with a relatively healthy concept of God. The God of my youth, the God that I was catechised into, was not unduly punishing, arbitrary or judgmental. He was omnipresent, so that all of our sins were noticed and noted. But at the end of the day he was fair, loving, personally concerned for each of us and wonderfully protective, to the point of providing each of us with a personal guardian angel. That God gave me permission to live without too much fear and without any particularly crippling religious neuroses.