
Is your religion due to your initial exposure to the idea of a God, that is to say the first you were taught, or have you sort of whittled down your choices to arrive at your current belief?
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They were married in a church and got me Christened but that's about the extent of their church-going, these were just the done things. My dad was more into theories about aliens, my mum didn't much care about anything that didn't help with the housework.
I've investigated a lot of things. There's a certain amount of truth all over the place, the Buddha said some sensible things but Buddhism is properly agnostic although it has absorbed a lot of Hindu metaphysics. There's a lot of interesting Hindu philosophy as well, in fact my own view of the Universe has something in common with the Hindu cosmology lately. But Hinduism is still at root naive polytheism that has developed more towards monism through intellectual speculation. Judaism is interesting almost for being the other way around.
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Their higher power is not a named deity but an intangible, universal force of light, truth, order, etc. - and it has since been deduced that the very presence of stuctured matter from atoms to life itself resulted from the prevalence of order against entropy.
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