Finding a Church

I was raised in a small Missouri town on the banks of the Mississippi River. There was one main street in town which ended at the river. The town was nestled between rollin hills ending at the rivers banks. I enjoyed a Mark Twain childhood except I wasn't Presbyterian. I had no choice of my religion there was no thought given to religion you just followed family tradition . Which happen to be Baptist or perhaps border line Souther Baptist with-out all of the shouting, It could have been either one? Over time the church plays a major part in your childhood. You learn your dos and don'ts from your family, In church you learn that there is another set of dos and don'ts and punishment out side of the family, you are to be God fearing..Nothing is related to your time line.You grow up with the fear of God and a very-very poor understanding of God and the history of religion.
For several years now I've read many books on the history of religion, I am amazed at some of the church laws, met to hold the flock together and of the severer punishment the church handed out. Now at age seventy I have my own religion. I am a child of God, created in his image, God is in me and I in him.