Religion and Religious Type Concepts Thread

[SargeMaximus]

'sup Sarge?

Well, been there myself in early adulthood as I recall. Been an agnostic, and now am back to having a faith.

Hey D.Ace. How did you choose a faith and is it one that people you know have? If so, did that play a role in your decision?

Is it one that people I know have? Yes, most of them.
Did that play a role in my decision? Indirectly yes, like "lemme experience it myself."

I was born and raised with not much good examples of the good side of having faith, I've been practicing the religion since I was a kid, with not much direction aside the classical Abrahamic theme of heaven and hell.
You can say that I practiced it by habit or by circumstance, as I grew older my social circle expanded as well, getting to know more people with their own backgrounds.
I even have a good friend, an atheist, whom I often discussed with about religion and life in general.

Lost my faith in religion couple years ago, which was funny because it was shortly after I finally made the highest bond between me and myself which was facilitated by the religious practices I did.
Being an agnostic, I tried to find the proof that the higher power doesn't exist.
Ironically, the more I tried to find the proof to deny religion, something in me that believed in a higher order or whatever you name it, grew stronger. I never told anyone about it, so what they perceived about me that time was me being unreligious.

Then things happened, signs were shown to me that I need to find it myself.
So here I am, back to faith and slowly building the connection I once lost.

What I could write is just as simple as I could convey, it's gonna take a whole lot more explanation, but I guess it could answer your question at least.

In short, raised with faith > practiced it by habit > questioning > "found god" > lost everything > close to being an atheist > living without any bound to religion > found the connection once again

Interesting. I've had a similar spiritual journey (raised with a religion, denounced it, found things that made me think it wasn't so simple and began to believe a bit in spiritual matters again), tho I did not return to the original faith, rather adopted a much broader understanding of spiritual matters.

However, recently I'm wondering if I should pick a religion for the sake of socializing.