I was brought up somewhat similarly, I think, ooliamh, at least in the respect that my parents were atheists or agnostics (really they were atheists as far as I can see), but they never really even thought about religion and hardly ever spoke of it. We didn't belong to any religion and we didn't go to churches nor were we affected by any religion.

What my parents' attention was on was things like: civil laws, money, property, normal social morality, acquiring possessions, family, marriage, business, and all that everyday practical and social stuff that everyone deals with.

So I was also free to choose. I eventually chose to study spirituality but not to join any specific religion. I study spirituality a great deal, and I see no need to belong to any specific religion, as it would put me inside a little box if I did.

I deny nothing that I have no way of disproving. I "believe" nothing that I have no way of knowing for certain. I consider all possibilities as fairly as I can, and I keep investigating them as best I can.

I am no enemy of religion, I just don't belong to it, that's all. And I am no enemy of science either. I respect both science and spirituality. I respect religions whenever they do good, but not when they do harm. They mostly do some of both, so it's a mixed picture.

The religious/philosophical traditions that interest me the most are Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Native American religions. I feel more kinship to them than I do to the Judeo-Christian-Muslim triumvirate...and to a variety of other world religions. I do think they all have some good points, though, and it is the good points of them which mostly interest me.