What religion are you?

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Christian.

When I was a teenager I decided I was an atheist. But I was really messed up at the time, and was trying to not ask questions, and be normal and cool. In college I converted to Christianity. I'm now one of those overeducated, joyful Christians, the type the atheists I know avoid. I'm very religious and I don't care how uncool I am anymore

This is why I like C.S. Lewis so much. We do actually exist in the wild (very Christian ex-atheists... who aren't crazed fundamentalists, that is).

I rejected religion as a silly, fairytale nonesense when I was 9yo.

Nothing has happened since to change my mind.

Christian here - I don't follow it as a result of having been indoctrinated with it from birth (my parents are agnostics), nor as a result of wishful thinking with regard to God and the so-called 'afterlife', but simply because I see it as a sure path of self-improvement and a great way to force myself to behave in accordance with the morals I believe in. While Atheists know the difference between right and wrong, they have no obligation to act accordingly. I also understand that through prayer (I recite and pray at least thrice daily), I can invigorate myself and feel as if I am directed by a kind of light (as pretentious as this may sound).

I also understand the occultic symbolism in religion and understand that all religions are essentially exactly the same manifestation of the occult traditions inherent in man. [/jungian rant]

I am a Gnostic and a Christian.

Most evangelical christians don't consider me christian, but the liberal christians will put up with me.

To answer this seriously: I'm an atheist. I give God or gods a very low chance of existing.

I have this weird attraction to 'primitive' religions though - the more animistic, the more fascinating. I think I'm interested in what I see as the root of all religions - the animistic mindset. I have no actual interest in paganism generally, just in the practices and ideas that precede even paganism. Tribal religion, really. I'm fascinated with Meso-American civilizations because they were quite advanced in many ways but their religion was still basically tribal. I like to study the faiths of Northern Asian shamans, African witchcraft and Vodun and the traditional religions of the Pacific Islanders.

I really have no interest in modern paganism - especially of the Celtic variety. This is because I imagine it to be very different to what my ancestors probably actually believed and practiced, and also motivated by a completely different urges. The modern pagan's need is to get in touch with nature. The ancient pagan was already plenty in touch the nature; their desire was to placate natural forces they did not understand and also to try and manipulate the natural world through supernatural means. They really believed those rituals (which probably did include killing people, even if the Romans exaggerate it) actually worked. I'd be kidding myself if I attempted to follow something based on their religion. I already kidded myself enough when I used to tried to be a Christian. I realised I couldn't really believe in that stuff, I just wanted to. So I'm not signing up for any more religions due to my inability to really believe in them.

I'm not the sort of person who could be Pagan-Atheist or Christian-Atheist because I'm not sufficiently interested in religion as a cultural identity. I think this is because when I was a child, I honestly believed in Catholicism and had spiritual experiences (which I now know were my hyper-religious mind playing tricks on me) that I wouldn't have had if I only half-believed it, or if I was only Catholic for cultural reasons. From a very small age, I knew the true power of religion in really giving yourself to it and now it's impossible for me to do that. I just don't believe and I can't do religion without belief.

I am an atheist. I got fed up with my parents' religion (Judaism) when I was 12. Over the next 5 years I rarely thought about the existence of gods, but I still had a weak belief in some sort of monotheistic god. I had a resurgence of faith for about 6 months and finally stopped believing in a god.

I am agnostic, half my family is Irish Catholic and the other half is Irish Protestant (Orange). I used to believe in christianity but i don't anymore! I have read the bible from cover to cover but I prefer Irish Celtic myths and legends. I have also read Norse, French and Anglo-Saxon myths and found them really interesting!

I am a Pagan Agnostic! I love the folk tales and legends of my ancestors, I'm not 100% sure if there's an afterlife! (but I hope there is one!)

Other.

@ValentineWiggin

It's called the moral argument.

Btw, I am Christian.

Moral argument, eh? I'm not a secular humanist. I have studied many religions and believe most (if not all) hold a grain of truth. I'm Pantheist, though. Used to label myself a Tao-Pagan.