Are you religious?

No.

Why or why not?

I was raised Lutheran and went through the whole Sunday School and Catechism routine. Basically brainwashed by my parents from an early age to buy into it. At the same time, I was always a curious person and learned (also from my parents) to ask questions and be skeptical. By the time I was taking Catechism, I had started to notice the cracks in Christian mythology. Their version of the Christian Bible is outright self-contradictory in some places, and the rest of it has logical holes big enough to walk through. Eventually, I got stuck on two questions:

1. What proof do you have that the supernatural exists?
2. How does that evidence of the supernatural prove that your mythology is correct?

It never ceases to amaze me how many religious people just flat out don’t have an answer for those questions, but damn if they don’t want to bring up faith. “Faith” is not proof, and a god of the gaps argument is not useful.

I do find the study of mythology interesting and worthwhile. Various mythologies have heavily influenced society to this very day. We can still see various Christian, Jewish and Islamic mythologies having a heavy impact on modern world events. And the storytelling in many myths is interesting and tells us a lot about the issues a society was grappling with at the time the myths were created and the overlap between societies as they shared stories.

I’m also quite willing to partake in most religious celebrations. Any excuse for feasting, frolicking or fornicating seems worthwhile.