Well, I wasn't raised very religious, but for about a year I was taking a lot of psychedelics. They do change your perception of things, in some ways for better and in some for worse. It's different for everyone, I guess.
I don't really know what I would call my beliefs. I never had a strong belief in God, at least not the Abrahamic version. It just never made sense to me that a loving and omnipotent being would allow so much to go wrong in this world, from famine and natural disasters to trans people feeling like their bodies are wrong. I've read a little about Taoism, and I like it. The concept that we all began as one being, then divided into Yin and Yang, and from there divided into everything else... it's not at all unlike a cell splitting into two cells, then four, and so on to create a living thing. Basically, my belief is that "God" or whatever you want to call it, exists in all of us, is all of us, but isn't a sentient being, just a creative force and ever changing matter that makes up the universe. I kind of thought this before coming out, but since have come to understand it a little more. I don't call it God, because that implies some kind of sentience or control over us. The universe, nature or something, doesn't have intent or rules that we're expected to follow, but we are it and it is us. I hope that makes sense.
