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I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

— Peter Jurasik

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

— Wes Bentley

I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

— M.I.A.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

— Alfre Woodard

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

— Luke Ford

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

— Paul Nurse

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

— Frank McCourt

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions... And I could never believe blindly.

— John O'Donohue

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

— Alice Sebold

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

— Mahershala Ali

✗Opposing Perspectives

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