Religion: What it means to you

Im a Druid.
Ok I used to be a christian, but then one of my friends told me about paganism and it was just one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It was because I that I had always been a pagan, and I had never known it. Suddenly everything I believed in wasn't something I was just making up in my head, but something that a whole load of other people believed in too! It was amazing! I hear this is experience is known as 'coming home'. Yeah, so from then 'til now I have been a very satisfyed Druid, who truely feels at one with the world and nature : )
Ok now I don't have a problem with any other religions, but I just think that any religion that can only exist because of some text in a book is well, questionable. For pagans there are no old texts to base your life on, because the 'religion' is derived from nature.

EDIT: Oh, and none of my family is religious!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Negative. I am making nothing up.
I can understand how it may seem that I am though. As I say, I had all of these ideas about how life works etc, and then found that there were many other who shared the same view, called Pagans. I think that these views of the world came to me simply because I am a creature on this planet, and I believe all people in the world can awaken to what I would consider the 'truth'.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Okay I will elaborate a bit. Before I was a Pagan, I believed that animals were of equal value to humans, and that they should never be purposely harmed (unless you intend to eat them), and should be respected. I believed that all creatures and the earth itself shared a spiritual energy. Now this is something I believed because it was something I thought I could 'feel', thats as best as I can explain it. I also believed in reincarnation. It was what made sense to me. However these beliefs did not fit with christianity. For example, christians believe animals do not have souls, and they do not believe in reincarnation. The idea of heaven and hell made no sense to me.
So yeah, I was delighted when I discovered Paganism, I felt whole.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I believe it to be true because I 'feel' that it is real!
I can't tell you anything as a fact. I go by my feelings, but hey my 'feelings' could just be chemical reactions making me think things, but then again, maybe its something deeper than that. Well anyway, I trust in my feelings, so to me, what I believe in is very real.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Excuse my exclamation marks, that is where I am getting excited, not angry. You may have a good scientific theory about feelings, but I think that they exist on a spiritual level as well. I realise it's irriatating when 'religious' types use spiritual energy in their arguements because it can't be proven or disproven, but that's just the way I think it is.
Oh and I did watch Captain Planet, heh, Hmmmmmm, well who knows, my whole life could be based around that mediocre cartoon!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Delving into philosophies and psychology hm? Heh I can tell you're that kind of person just from your signature! Ghost in the Shell does indeed raise some interesting points.
Well, I wish you luck on your 'spritual journey' if I may call it that!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Need a good example of Christians trying to destroy a peaceful group? How about in the 'crusades', where pagans had to convert to christianity or die.

FELIPE NO

Please give me an education.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Thank you for your enlightening history lesson Fyodor D.

How ya doing, buddy?