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My parents weren't really religious, if that's what you mean.
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.
(, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:45, archived)
Sikhism is interesting in that it expresses a fundamental physical truth in spiritual terms.
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.
(, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:58, archived)
I don't know where you intend to go with this.
The Sikhs call God "Waheguru" but note that it is only one name amongst any number of possible names. They meditate upon the "naam" or "name".
(, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:04, archived)