Imperial_Samura
Anticrust Smurf
Hmmm. My mother was a very moderate, liberal Christian, my father a staunch atheist. Religion didn't play much of a part, though I guess in a way I was somewhat Christian. Though really I never felt anything. The "Good Book" which I was told in school scripture had no effect on me, as a person who loved history the Bible just was another moderately entertaining historical text, full of bias and all that feel good mysticism of the ancient world.
Anyvey there came a time when strangely I felt I should look into my "religion" come to terms with it, find truth in it. Felt right. However I was most disappointed. I looked at it from an intellectual, rational point of view, and I saw no real truths, no real facts, basic morals, smoke and mirrors, and a history of bias, bigotry, hypocrisy and ignorance. Just some skeleton of some ancient institution, manipulated by mere mortals claiming to have some great truth they would share if one would only "believe". I saw no God there, nor in Judaism, Islam or whatever. I saw little of beauty (other then the architecture) in Christianity, nothing that science could not explain better, nothing that could not be attributed to the works of human kind or to the randomness of nature.
I did my theology studies in school, coupled with history and psychology (interesting to see the way religion develops, and how human it really is) discovered that religion had nothing to really offer me, which was strangely liberating, although I do have some associations to Buddhism, though more as a philosophical basis, and aspects of Hinduism (Ganesha anyway, patron of scholars.) Though I admit, as a cynic and all, that in some ways I am still agnostic, I have an open mind and I am prepared to look for some proof, though I am yet to see anything that even remotely could be considered an all powerful God. And I am pleased to say I haven't needed religion or Godly fear to live a damn fine life in my relatively short years so far.