The Moment I Knew My Spiritual Path (SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO)

At HuffPost, we're kicking off an exciting new project and we'd love you to participate! It's called "The Moment I Knew," and is a user-submitted video series where readers tell the stories of life-changing moments they have experienced. Each section of HuffPost has chosen a different theme -- whether it was the moment you knew you were in love, the moment you knew your marriage was over, the moment you knew you loved college, or the moment you knew you were broke. You can also tell us about any other life-defining moment you'd like to share. The possibilities are endless!

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Comments

[hewdewyou]

02:36 PM on 03/09/2012

I don't remember the exact moment, but somewhere around 6th grade I finally realized how absurd the people in charge of my Catholic school were, that they were walking around in robes and tall hats they seemed to give reverence to. Then I learned how massive the universe was, and my immediate conclusion was that people here are just self centered, they think this huge expanse of matter is there in their own service, even though they are miniscule expressions in it. Once I realized the ball rolls not because god pushed it, it rolls because the wind blew, the earth under neath is shifted, etc, that simply not being able to describe the cause didn't necessitate a diety, it was more likely we were simply ignorant, I started to see the world for the wonderous, complicated, and incredibly exciting place it is.

[George From NYC]

09:13 AM on 03/09/2012

The moment I knew that I had to fight fundamentalists of any religion was the day my father died in a building attacked by terrorists.

The funny thing is, I also realized that the fundamentalists that we have here in the United States are more dangerous to liberty than the ones in the Middle East.

[signgrrl]

10:25 AM on 03/10/2012

F/F

[whirlpool]

04:54 PM on 03/08/2012

At age 60 after being in religion for decades, I had a panic attack in church one day when the preacher was going on about the Trinity. I realized I had been sold a load of turnips all those years--okay so I am a slow learner. I have since founded the walnut tree congregation consisting entirely of entities from nature--I am the sole representative of Homo sapiens. My focus now is doing un-baptisms for my dead relatives that the Mormons got and doing reverse exorcisms to put the demons back in church where they came from. But mostly we celebrate nature--the creator and sustainer of all things.

[invisbl]

05:28 PM on 03/07/2012

Well I always had doubts about my family's Christianity... it pretty much wasn't part of our lives. So I settled on agnostic, because I thought that made me more open-minded.

My Moment, if you want to call it that, occurred sometime while I was reading The God Delusion, and recognized that I was not agnostic, I was an agnostic atheist. Shortened to atheist now, because that's closer to the truth than "agnostic" is.

Before you accuse Dr. Dawkins of having deconverted me, realize that it was the *definition* of my nonbelief, not my nonbelief itself that changed after having read the book.

[researcher]

01:11 AM on 03/07/2012

dr tittle be prepared to be subjected to many personal attacks and put downs far more than even the evangels will give you.

materialism is that powerful of a belief system. one paranormal phenomenon and their entire system of beliefs comes crashing down. fear can make us write some pretty interesting comments.

now materialism is a path for many seekers. often one must give up religion and all its dogma and rewards for staying in the herd and swing far away from anything that even sounds remotely religious.

a recent example of this herd effect is that it is now almost certain that a director has one of the actors throw up during the movie. used to be the director had the actors (the cool ones) light up a cigarette. that has been replaced by the throw up scene.

materialism has as much of an agenda as any religion. kudos to you for being the first to post a you tube video considering the hostile environment on huff post religion.

[Varys]

03:22 AM on 03/07/2012

Do you ever comment on the article, or just comment on the comments?

[Varys]

12:27 AM on 03/07/2012

If there was a single "moment" where you realized your spiritual path, then you haven't thought about it long enough. Usually I make sarcastic comments, but I'm serious about this one.

[DessieRandom]

09:03 PM on 03/06/2012

I don't "know" my spiritual path. I'm still walking and discovering it. :)

[A-Superstitionist]

08:37 PM on 03/06/2012

My spiritual moment was when I learned the difference between evidence-based science and faith-based superstition and that the dividing line is whether one has verifiable and falsifiable evidence or not. At that moment, I threw all my childhood indoctrinated superstitions back to the stone age.

[researcher]

01:35 PM on 03/07/2012

Like that verifiable evidence that can be repeated in a lab that a chance event created the first life form?

gotta love beliefs they can overwhelm even a hint of a rational mind.

Please post that verifiable evidence that chance or an accident can create a life form from stardust and gases in the universe. The world is waiting, as it would be an earth-shaking discovery.

Or continue to call theories or beliefs evidence; it works in every university in the world.

Or do I continue to have FAITH that someday science will be able to create such evidence. That faith thing even for the materialists among us?

There is more religion in men's science than science in their religion. Thoreau.

The entire foundation of the materialist system of beliefs is based on a chance event that cannot be repeated in a lab to create verifiable evidence that is repeatable. Interesting aspect of the human mind.

[highhymes]

02:37 PM on 03/07/2012

Why must the inexplicable try to be explained? Moreover, why is there a persistent need to make something up if it can't be explained?

[AntithiChrist]

07:33 PM on 03/06/2012

September 11th, 2001.

That was the big spiritual 'aha' moment for me.

It all clicked, just how deadly religion can be, if encouraged in just the right way.

I made it my business to never give religion a free pass again.

[signgrrl]

08:48 AM on 03/07/2012

religion was just the subtext there, if that.

[nadohawk]

11:16 AM on 03/07/2012

Well it was not about ultimately religion, but about America interfering in the Middle East.

[AntithiChrist]

03:51 PM on 03/09/2012

You are correct that the geopolitical factors involved provided the impetus, politically.

But you should look into the complete cost effectiveness of motivating a person to be a bomb using promises of eternal bliss (for the bomb and its family), vs going to the trouble and expense of bringing down two huge buildings, using any other means.

It takes a religion to be that lethal, that cheaply.

[eric14]

07:20 PM on 03/06/2012

This has more to do with Huffpost becoming a streaming TV channel for handhelds than with spiritual paths.

[Hillbilly49]

05:44 PM on 03/06/2012

My most up lifting "spiritual experience" was when I discarded the bondage and shackles of religiosity; while embracing science, the wonders of evolution and natural selection.  Discarding religion freed me to do positive things with my life and help mankind.

[eric14]

07:21 PM on 03/06/2012

Didn't help you make a video like the tin god of Huff commanded!

[Hillbilly49]

08:42 PM on 03/06/2012

Faith is deciding to allow yourself to believe in something that your intellect would otherwise cause you to reject.