Very interesting, and it struck a chord.
In my teens I felt that if there was anything in religion I personally should take it seriously, it didn't seem like it should be a back burner, Sundays only kinda thing, so I read the bible and as I wasn't in and surrounded by the faithful the “plot holes” as he said, were glaring, but I still needed something Spiritual.
I'd always been into nature and a bit of a loner, taking myself off alone along the canal, down in to the woods just sitting, watching and listening, I read some Taoist books and they resonated but I don't believe there is a plan or an afterlife, just that I'm part of everything, that I've come out of nature and will in time return to the sleep I was in before I was born, and that's enough.