So you’ve made your intentions public to explore more inclusively spiritual avenues, because your former path left you wanting. Unsurprisingly, you’re receiving self-righteous indictments from the exclusively religious community that once felt like home to you.

You didn’t believe enough, or you didn’t behave accordingly, or you didn’t keep company with the right people, supposedly. You wanted to do your own thing, and you don’t care what their god allegedly wills for your life; this is textbook condescension.

It doesn’t matter to them that you honestly gave their preferred thoroughfare the old college try, since they think they know best. If so, then let them carry on in such a manner, pushing people away rather than considering where we are coming from.

With each passing day, religious fanaticism becomes less appealing, unlike levelheaded, lighthearted, well-rounded spiritualism. Rational, relatable, responsible individuals long to be a part of communities, which celebrate diversity and self-empowerment.