One girl said that her parents were evangelical Christians, but that when she tried to practice Christianity, it was like "talking to air". She 'felt' that when she began talking to/praying to "the Goddess", etc., she felt connected to the Earth and life in general...etc...

Actually I like very much what that girl said. It pretty much describes the way I felt when I discovered paganism.

I was brought up in the Methodist church, and I always felt like an outsider. As far as I was concerned, God was a disembodied entity "up there". It had no meaning for me. I never bought into it.

It was not until many years later that I was able to put words to what I felt, when I started reading about paganism. I was not a young teenager, either. But the feeling of connection and being part of everything was what made it feel "right" from the beginning.

It fascinates me that there was no claim for **TRUTH**, or documentation...

Since when has that been a prerequisite for any of the world's religions?