Your faith timeline.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

All ages approximate.
0 - Baptized in the UCC.

5 - Family moved, no UCC church nearby, family went to UMC church.

7 - Really, really into this little tract covering the Sermon on the Mount.

8 - Read an anthology of Mark Twain short stories, including "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" and "The War Prayer".

10 - Compared churches based on their facilities, not their theology.

12 - Confirmed in the UMC.

15 - Really got into rituals to the point of creating my own.

20 - Turned off by ritual. Still religious, just not attending anywhere.

40 - Started getting serious about defining my beliefs so I could describe and defend them to others.

47 - Joined a UUA church as closest to what I am of what's available in area; doing Sunday school and Bible study with Lutherans.

50 - Church got new pastor who didn't inspire me like the old one did.

52 - Finally joined the ELCA church I did Bible study with after a divisive turn by my old UUA church made me question why I still went there. (To be clear, while I didn't agree with the choice of direction because I doubted the capability of the church to implement the policy [and also doubted that their chosen method was the best way to achieve the stated end], the reason I left had much more to do with how those who didn't agree with the decision were treated than the decision itself.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I do find it interesting at how many Americans just change religious denomination and 'church shop'. Culturally, that's very alien to me where you either pretty much stay as you are, stay but drop off or just don't care.

We live in a country where there is a default presumption that it is better to be religious and generally an awareness that different denominations will resonate with particular people. So if the denominational we grow up in doesn't resonate with us when we reach the point of being able to choose where or whether to religize, we tend more towards finding one that does resonate than assuming no religion will.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

0-5: Baptised, enjoyed reading my children’s Bible.
5-11: Became an atheist due to watching Walking with Dinosaurs and finding the Bible incompatible with that, in addition to rebelling against the trendy soft evangelical Christianity peddled at the progressive private school I attended.
11-18: Went to comprehensive school, rebelled against atheism due to being irritated by a number of my peers adopting an annoying Dawkinsite attitude towards Christianity. Embraced reactionary Catholicism because it seemed cool.
18-: Went to Catholic services at my uni chaplaincy, became good friends with the priest who gave the services. Have since carried on attending various Catholic Churches irregularly (ie most Sunday’s when i’m not too battered from the night before to offend the Lord, which are fewer in number than they should be).

I’m not actually sure if I believe in God (although I have had many deeply spiritual experiences after consuming lots of vodka); nonetheless, I love the Bible (although I try to read it in Latin as I think its translation into the vernacular was Christianity’s biggest mistake), I enjoy Catholic services and have gotten on well with the various priests I’ve encountered over the years, so I see no need to go all Mr Hale and leave the Church over some minor theological uncertainty.

The vodka was good, but the meat was rotten.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Actually the most important change in civil marriage in the past century hasn't been the recognition of same-sex marriage, but it changing from a property transfer of the bride from her father to her husband into a union of two independent adults.  Indeed, without that change, SSM wouldn't make much sense. Indeed, much of the opposition to SSM comes from those who wanted to return to the former traditional marriage forms.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Reality is a scary place

That's reality's problem.

I thought you Christians were supposed to accept the things you cannot change.

Christianity is not a 12-step program.