I used to be a very religious child, I believed fully in the good word of the bible as a protestant Christian. The 10 Comandments was what I lived after... and what shaped my morals today. (My mother was never religious at all, I just chose to believe in what I heard at school and in church). 

I left my faith at 13 because of things that happened in my life... and I realized God didn't have my back. I stopped believing in a God who controlled your life and decided who was good or bad.

I became a bit of an agnostic after that. I've always been interested in science and especially astronomy and astrophysics. I decided that maybe a God didn't create every leaf on every tree but maybe he lit the very first spark of The Big Bang.

I was watching a science documentary with Steven Hawking the other night (narrated by none other than Benedict) asking the very question 'Did God Create The Universe'. One of the theories was that since basically the laws of the universe meant that everything added up to nothing, nothing started the big bang... 

Right now I don't really believe in a higher power ruling over our life, or having had some master plan from the start. And I think an interest in both science and medicine has cemented that for me. 



I still have a HUGE respect for people of faith. I think it's admirable and I know it gave me something to hold on through my weird childhood and it was nice to think that praying for my bird as she was sick in my hands saved her... I think religion is important and I would never take it away from anyone.