What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?

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Muslim, born to muslim parents. I was raised in it and still hold on it as it's a good way for me to honor my parents and those who came before them.
- So you don't believe in it?
  
  I do. I do pray and observe Ramadan, avoid pork, and so on. I did it as a child and a teenager - but there was a while in my young adult years of briefly slipping into a bad lifestyle and abusing shit to cope with work and poor mental health at the time. To be frank, it was the fact that I took my driver's license that made me do away with that stuff.
  Thankfully, I have had a spiritual re-awakening since then and found back to those roots. It's a good thing for me that allows me to stay grounded keep my humility. It's a gift that I'm proud of to have received from my parents. I've managed to shave away other vices such as gambling, but other vices like nicotine remain.
  This happens to be my heritage and my life story. Having been born and raised in a secular country, I've seen and heard enough to recognize that everyone has their own heritage and their own life story. What's yours?
  
  I didn't want to come off as condescending, but your original comment was formed in such a way that it would lead to misunderstanding since you only mentioned the heritage part, which IMO should not be the most important aspect of picking a religion.
  I don't have any religious heritage myself. I was raised by agnostic and completely irreligious parents, although I did go to a catholic school growing up. I'm an atheist myself but I understand why people feel drawn to religions and why believing in a higher power makes certain aspects of life easier. I've studied religions quite a bit though, and as a philosophy and way of life I tend to agree more with the teachings of Christianity. At least I like to think that is my rationale speaking and not simply my upbringing.

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