I left the church and dogmatic religion as soon as my neocortex began the biochemical process of developing and the neurons stareted firing. Being on an alcoholic temperament, I went from religious to atheist not assuming any middle ground. Over the years I drifted from athesist to classical agnosticism, to agnostic Buddhism. No belief saved me from my drunken self except my drunken self opting to commit suicide for the sake of my sober me.
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”
Albert Einstein