I used to be very involved in church - youth ministry and stuff. I guess I never really believed in God even then, but it provided me with great friends and there were safe things to do. My friends from school were always doing dumb stuff and breaking the law - I was just not into that stuff.

I can remember the night I decided I did not believe in God and had a myriad of questions that could not be answered. The concept of Faith crept into my mind. Seeing is believing but Faith is believing in something you cannot see (belief of the existence of God)

I have always believed that there was some kind order to my life events that guided my path. I find that even more now having a pretty good life virtually in total control of my mental illness (good med cocktail and great psych doc).

To me spirituality is different for many people (a great many just follow like sheep [there is actually the idea of Jesus being the Shepard for his flock of believers]) They are all blindly following doctrine and the bible (I am catholic so that is my point of view for religion) even though the bible is hypocritical a lot.

I think any connection to something bigger than yourself - something that says both that you are not alone and that you are a grain of sand in the universe at the same time is what comprises spiritality.