And, I'm back!
While mixing up spices and marinating chicken, I've been listening to the monks.
And revisiting that Prayer against every evil - which includes this one:

Prayers for Troubled Souls:

Lord, have mercy on us. Almighty God, Our Lord, King of Ages, Thou Who hast made everything and Who transforms everything simply by Thy Will. Thou who in Babylon changed into dew the flames of the “seven-times hotter” furnace a protected and saved the three holy children. Thou art the doctor and the physician of our souls.

#Babylon
oh, Daniel in the lion's den,
oh, Daniel, the scholar, a captive of the king of Babylon...
oh, how Judaism evolved while the Jews were in captivity, exposed to Zoroastrians in Babylon.

Believers like my mom will never look outside the Bible for anything.
If it's not in the Bible, it's not real. It's lies, the devil's own lies. It's propaganda. It's evil.
Sorry, humans wrote stuff down long before the Bible was written.
And I feel like two people: one, the believer my mom intended me to be, and two, the skeptic I was born to be, forever questioning all Mom's Bible teachings. Never able to make sense of the implausible or contradictory things we are told to accept with the unquestioning innocence of a child. But even as a child I could not ... my dad's mantra (in all things) was "Don't ask why. Just take my word for it."

Paul C. Vitz, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism

Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God. A biographical survey of influential atheists of the past four centuries shows that this "defective father hypothesis" provides a consistent explanation of the "intense atheism" of these thinkers.

Yeah, no...
What the skeptics have in common is not just the absence of a positive father figure, Mr. Vitz.
The #1 thing they have in common is reading outside the Bible....READING... studying... learning.

But I still attend Mass every week with my cradle-Catholic husband, who has never entertained a single doubt.