After growing up in a wildly Conservative church and watching it attempt to destroy my family in the wake of my sisters’ coming-outs, I determined to have nothing to do with organized religion again.

If one were to measure my belief in “the Divine”, it would definitely have to be on a sliding scale. The sliding scale would look something like this:

Good day: “Spiritual” in the “new-agey,” search for greater meaning sense.

Medium day: Agnostic – I really don’t know what to believe. I don’t have proof either way.

Bad day (aka, I watched the news): I don’t think there is a God. And if there is, he/she’s flipped us the bird and walked away. Read more…