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Hi all. :waving
I guess I'll start with a little introduction to myself and why I'm here. (For what it's worth, I'm a 19 year-old girl living in Texas.)
I've never been a very religious person, although I have always felt that there was some sort of higher power. I was baptized Methodist as a small child, although my family rarely went to church. I was always taught that attending church on its own meant nothing, it didn't make you a good person by default, and that likewise you didn't strictly have to attend church to live your life properly. Honestly, my church's youth group bored me and I didn't really feel like going.
For a long time as an adolescent and through most of my teen years I didn't understand religion and didn't really want anything to do with it. I could never have considered myself an atheist, but I didn't want any sort of organized religion in my life. I was feeling very depressed and hopeless most of the time (I later found out that I'm bipolar), and didn't feel like religion would make much of a difference. My younger sister suddenly passed away when I was 13, and that didn't help matters.
These days I've been starting to consider that religion may be something I actually do want in my life, but I don't know where to start. Thus, I'm searching around the internet and reading whatever I can to try to get a good foundation and figure this stuff out. I may not post much here at first, I'll probably be reading mostly, but I will ask questions as they come up.
Annnd, I think that's about it. Once again, hello, and I hope I like it here.
I guess I'll start with a little introduction to myself and why I'm here. (For what it's worth, I'm a 19 year-old girl living in Texas.)
I've never been a very religious person, although I have always felt that there was some sort of higher power. I was baptized Methodist as a small child, although my family rarely went to church. I was always taught that attending church on its own meant nothing, it didn't make you a good person by default, and that likewise you didn't strictly have to attend church to live your life properly. Honestly, my church's youth group bored me and I didn't really feel like going.
For a long time as an adolescent and through most of my teen years I didn't understand religion and didn't really want anything to do with it. I could never have considered myself an atheist, but I didn't want any sort of organized religion in my life. I was feeling very depressed and hopeless most of the time (I later found out that I'm bipolar), and didn't feel like religion would make much of a difference. My younger sister suddenly passed away when I was 13, and that didn't help matters.
These days I've been starting to consider that religion may be something I actually do want in my life, but I don't know where to start. Thus, I'm searching around the internet and reading whatever I can to try to get a good foundation and figure this stuff out. I may not post much here at first, I'll probably be reading mostly, but I will ask questions as they come up.
Annnd, I think that's about it. Once again, hello, and I hope I like it here.
