Please show me even ONE “answer” “religion/god” has provided for real things we don’t understand...

You can change your name if you want to. Welcome to the group!

I don't think that one can be "spiritual" and Agnostic. Just my opinion.

And what the hell does SPIRITUAL mean??!

I understand your feelings, although I am living in New England, where it is much easier than in the South or Midwest. Yet there are still times when devout Christians try to save me, and ask if I've made Jesus my own personal savior, etc, etc... When they say God Bless You, I just tell them thank you and leave it at that.

When I read the definitions when signing up, I didn't really think any of them fit, and that maybe a couple partially fit. I have my own beliefs, closer to Carl Sagan's. I think that we're all made of "star stuff", as he used to say. I don't know if there's a "God", but I'm pretty sure that if there is, God is nothing like us and is not an all-powerful human-looking being. Probably just more of the star-stuff... but maybe a little more interesting. All I know is, I'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, I just want to have fun and be a good person.

I felt uncomfortable in rural Virginia, but then I went down to rural SC and saw what it’s like down there. I can see why you’re worried.

Well try to remember spiritualism is still trying to explain something you don’t understand. Religion makes money filling in the holes of understanding and so much so that all through history it has denied facts. I have a friend who is “spiritual” she has seen ghosts. I do not believe ghosts, but I believe she thinks she saw something that she doesn’t understand and she called it a ghost. As humans we try to find meaning because we preprogrammed to find patterns. It’s a trait left over from when we were not at the top of the food chain.