Tell me about your religion and why you choose it

Im a satanist and I landed on that conclusion because I dont like to believe there is a god that has my life planned. I believe I have control over everything that happens to me, therefore making me my own god. I think everyone has their own power to control their life. 

Im a satanist and I landed on that conclusion because I dont like to believe there is a god that has my life planned. I believe I have control over everything that happens to me, therefore making me my own god. I think everyone has their own power to control their life. 

I am a Atheist because I never believed in any kind of higher Power. Even tho I was raised in Christianity, things like praying felt more like a chore to do like brushing your teeth. 

all this trouble with religion began when i was about 12 years old. i found the book “cosmic consciousness” by richard beck, which inspired me to search for the essence of the universe. and then i felt the presence of something in the entire environment, it was a god whom i called “absolute” according to beliefs from the eastern part of eurasia. i never finished reading the book because i wanted to look for all the answers myself, using the book as a direction to the right path. from that time on, i invented my own religion without a name or anything else defining my beliefs as a phenomenon, because i believed that “truth has no name.” i counted the days of brahma according to the cosmic calendar and built systems about HOW it could work. God was my interlocutor, not a friend, not a teacher, but God. to be honest, in the end i was so fed up with it that i just joined orthodoxy because it was easier. i already found so many answers to questions that i soon no longer needed it at all. despite this, my views are not connected with the general rules of orthodoxy, but i believe that it can work in any way because the task of religion, in my opinion, is to make a person happy. or happiER.

I don't consider myself to have a specific religion, but I do believe there is at least one god out there (there could be multiple), that heaven, hell, and purgatory exist (or at least some places similar to it), and that reincarnation is a thing. I also do pray, but not to any specific god.

I mainly chose a more open-minded outlook on these things because I don't think humans can really have much, if any, concrete proof of which religion is "correct." Heck, all religions may be correct in a way!

I want to be open-minded but also hopeful about what might happen to me and my loved ones when we die or face hardships in our lives.