Welcome to Gaia! ::

That must get confusing. sweatdrop
Jameta has a point. I guess I'm agnostic. I find it hard to believe in God, but I also find it hard to not believe in a greater power. Perhaps it is out of fear of death. Fear of the unknown. Fear of something that means nothing...literally.
Whatever the reason, if I were to become religious (and I am still considering it) I would join the Baha'i faith. Why? Keep in mind that I've only read a couple books and articles on it, but it's the only religion that makes sense to me so far:
1. It is acceptant of other religions. Completely. It essentially is the belief that all the religions are the same, and (insert name of higher power(s) here) just value(s) diversity, which explains why there are so many different people, cultures, religions, and places.
2. It has an extremely optimistic outlook on life. It basically believes that the human race is maturing, much like a child. Christ came around the time when we were still a child, pre-puberty. Currently, we are going through puberty which is causing strife and brand new outlooks on life, rather than the old black and white rules that were laid down before when we were not mature enough to take care of ourselves. No, no "judgement day". Baha'is look at the future, looking towards the day when we'll finally mature.
3.Its main prophet, who is considered to be no better nor worse than Christ, Buddha, Moses, Muhammad, or anyone else, actually is proven to have existed. Baha'ullah is well-documented in the 19th century AD. Yes, he existed and his life is well-documented with solid proof and witnesses. It's not just a bunch of people who decided to write about it several hundred years after it happened. Letters of his are in museums today, no hoaxes. Plus, a miracle of his predecessor, the Bab, is well-reported in which he and a fellow Baha'i survived a firing squad.

This probably can make you easily skeptical, but I encourage anyone to look into it. (Oh no now I'm preaching it! stressed ) I read a book called "My Baha'i Faith" by Justice St. Rain. It's definitely inspired an interest of the religion to me.

My basic theological beliefs:

I was raised Evangelical Christian. You know, those crazy guys who think Pat Robertson and George W. Bush are the most awesome people since Jesus, and listen to Pat more than Jesus? Yeah, them. My parents converted soon after my tenth birthday, and did so completely... within a year, my mother had gone from being the source of the majority of my musical and literary tastes (she introduced me to the Beatles, David Bowie, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, J. R. R. Tolkien, Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffery, and Dungeons and Dragons) to reading Christian literature and listening to Christian music exclusively.

That alone was a big part of why I never could embrace it deep in my heart... to see my mother give up so much of what she had once loved hurt me.

In college, I stopped going to church. I took classes on different ideas on the origin of the universe, and on different ideas on justice, both of which treated all the ideas equally. Those classes really opened my eyes to the world as a whole.

Today, I believe in God because I prefer the idea that there is a god over the idea that there is not. I have no evidence for God's existance, but I like the idea that he's out there, so I say he is. My morality starts with "Be nice to people." and ends with, "Really. Be nice to people."

Well, i've been atheist for the longest time... Right now im kind of dipping my toes into the Gaia Theory... -shrug-

same. I follow teachings and I like to study and research, but don't have a religion