My spiritual journey
I personally started out an agnostic. By high school, my frustration over the unanswered question about the existence of God led me to a complete distaste for religion in general. Had I been a more outgoing person, I might have spoken out against religion. But I just rejected it for myself. Then, in college, I had a mystical experience that convinced me that god is real and I fell into fully embracing the religion I had been raised in, assuming without question that my religion was the one and only right one, and all other religions were wrong. I started preaching (in writing) such a message against beliefs of others that I felt were wrong, an insult to God, as well as leading others astray from the Truth (as I saw it). But after about a year of such exclusivist thinking, I took a step back and realized I did not really know what other religions had to say. I just assumed they were wrong simply because they were not my religion, assumed that different religions were ent...