I was raised a Lutheran and as an inquisitive adult looked into many other religions of the world. I stopped going to church when I was old enough to see the hypocrisy, although I've heard church is a good place to pick up women who love to fuck. My beliefs are personal and considered heretical by many. They also are not chiseled in stone. I am free to change my mind. There is nothing in my personal spiritual experience that dictates that I must believe in anything. I think faith and intelligence can coexist as long as both are flexible. I don't believe that books written by humans are "the Word of God" any more than I believe in space monkeys. I think scriptures contain some wisdom but also contain a whole lot of horseshit. Blind faith is a form of prejudice. I don't mean racial prejudice, but the mental cop out of making a judgment without evidence.