I'm not spiritual now because I lost my faith ;) As I've said in other answers I just don't understand it, and it makes me feel insignificant, alot. It was a personal decision and its not one that I didn't think about, because I did.

I was baptised Catholic, for me it was the hypocritical belief system. My eldest sister is a assistant to a priest, and she counsels parishoners. I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, she is the only person in my family who wont accept my illness, rather thinks I have made it up. The guilt that catholics put on you is also a reason for putting my faith aside.

never have been ...seen all the hate and damage it has caused ...and nothing has changed my mind

I was deeply religious for 20 years - losing it was a long and difficult process. Essentially it began with some life events that led to me re-evaluating everything I had ever once "stood on". When the questions really started, there never seemed to be satisfactory answers within the christian faith. The answers began to come from outside. The more reading, observing, asking and talking I did, the more obvious it became (to me) that god is not "real" in the sense that he has any existence outside our own minds. Same with any of the other ones we have.

my definition of religion is: a building with rules, you have to do XY&Z, with people who believe the same thing. another way to think of it is "the path" to get to a god or a divine intelligence whatever you call it. i was christian, just someone who believes that jesus came and died for me. sometimes i went to church not for brownie points but because i wanted to be there. i am batting back and forth what i wholeheartedly believe. perhaps christianity was just something to believe in, i know that if i keep my focus on God and jesus is real, i wont be able to deny it. but i am seeking capital God! i want to know Him

I was raised in a very religious family, but I never had any faith. From a very early age, I tried to make sense of the things I was being taught, and they just didn't add up. I read many religious works, including the Bible, and even attended classes to try to "get" faith, but it never happened.

I have always had faith but have never been religious!

I gave up on dogma. Just because someone says such and such happened doesnt mean I cant challenge the statement. I gave up on sin. It always made me feel guilty. I no longer sin. I stopped going to church parties every sunday. I started asking questions, like what is the name of your God? I am no longer religious or in a religious community. I didnt lose my faith. I am still spiritual. I just gave up religion and being religious. I still believe. I think our planet earth is our devine mother. The composition of the earth's core created life on the surface.

I have never lost God in my heart. I just don't attend church. I use to go to church all the time, then i moved to utah and people here are clickish and If you are not rich and like them then you are no one. Also being gay and having a child out of wedlock i was no longer welcome to the church. I don't have to be at church or pray all the time to be religious or spiritual. I have God in my heart and treat people well. That is all i have to do in life i believe.

This is the best I can do. 1Jo 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. You need not that any man teach you. The true church is within us.

Religion never really did anything for me. Church is just a place people go to be dressed nice, smile a lot, and act like they don't masturbate. As a kid I felt like it was just the tip of the iceberg and life was full of much more that would not get addressed. In high school I gradually went from a full christian to a full atheist in about 2½ years in pursuit of the truth. Yes I'm still spiritual, very much so. Nowadays my spirituality revolves around the question of what makes people into good people? But also into trying to understand nature and human nature.

I believed in God until I realized he's fake. What God never comes out and talks to everybody?

When I was a kid, I believed in some sort of God, and some vague idea of an afterlife, either via a heaven/hell, or reincarnation, or perhaps a combination. I am now a skeptic, in the philosophical, epistemological sense. I personally have not seen any certain justification of knowledge of anything at all, including any of the propositions or belief statements coming from any of the world religions, or any supernatural beliefs. So I'm required to confess my ignorance on these issues and admit that I don't know, although, perhaps, there may be a way to know, somehow, that I have yet to discover. Speaking from the heart, I doubt it, but that's emotional rather than intellectual doubt. I also realize that the things I believed in as a child were vague and undefined. I really didn't believe in them - I thought I did. They were more like mantras - empty words that felt like they meant something, but that, if pressed, I wouldn't have been able to clearly or at all define. Intellectual maturity and honesty, if they develop in a person, as they did in me, require such clear definitions. Otherwise the "beliefs" are just comforting sounds in your head. And when I analyzed every major religion, it seemed that the "beliefs" and "statements" were pretty vague, undefined, and widely open to interpretation as well. It became clear that most religious people are agnostics (which means they believe, either implicitly or explicitly, that it is impossible to know on religions issues), and even moreso perhaps, that they don't ACTUALLY believe what they say they do, since their beliefs are often equivalent to undefined sounds (since they don't actually define their beliefs rigourously to themselves). There were few exceptions that I found, and those exceptions still, perhaps unknowingly, in an intellectually dishonest manner, pretended to know when they did not really know.