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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

— Laurence Housman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

— Tom Perrotta

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

— Paul Nurse

When I was young, I was religious.

— Jonathan Kozol

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

— Karen Armstrong

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

— Lauren Bacall

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

— Graham Elliot

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.

— Luke Ford

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

— Gene Luen Yang

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

— Jack Dee

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John Eldredge