The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was young, I was religious.
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.