"When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self."

Yeah, I remember reading that Parade article (a few weeks ago, I forget when, but pretty it was pretty recent).
Now that could easily be taken the wrong way, though.

So is there anyone on this thread that would consider themselves 'religious'?

It seems that the term has a negative connotation in some (many?) circles, especially among the high-school and college level. Its 'cool' not to do that kind of stuff in our advanced 21st-century society.
Everything, all past successes, are blamed on something; some idealogy, or religious affiliation, or something. Like the Christian crusades, or the end-of-mideival-time-period religious wars in Europe.
Yes, religion has done good, and yes, it has done bad. Our modernist society focuses on the bad (though perhaps correct) aspects of things, and as a result, we as a culture have lost any sense of mechanical or spiritual or religious unity.

Now is this good, or bad?

*end rant*