Hi! I'm brand new, just signed up yesterday. About 15 years ago I first admitted to myself that I don't believe in any kind of god or supreme being. My family and I continued going to church and Sunday school. They had no idea how I felt. I finally came out of the "closet" to my family only a few years ago, and was actually relieved to find out my grown kids are agnostic! Things are a lot more relaxed between us now, no pretending.

What I don't understand is why I still find something comforting about crossing myself when I'm embarrassed or uncertain about something, and singing hymns, and other trappings of my Episcopal training. I don't believe any of that stuff, I don't believe I'm praying to God, but I'm putting my desires or even my gratitude out there - but to where? I firmly believe that we humans are no more important in the grand scheme of things than any other organism on Earth and we will all die and that will be it.

Does anyone else have those leftover feelings they don't know what to do with?