I have a little different take on this. I think that when we experience trauma, or a traumatic memory surfaces, we often draw back from the things in our life we felt were important. It's part of the response to trauma.

Try not to take it too seriously, it may be just a passing thing you're experiencing. Religion is about what you feel and what you believe. If that hasn't changed, then neither have you.

It may be that you're retreating from your former life until you can process what's happened and adjust to it if you can.

Hey, Deli, I drove to work thinking about what you said way back about Islam. 9/11 happened while I was in seminary in 2001. So I had a systematic theology professor who didn't make himself very popular with other Christians at my seminary when he spoke in favor of one of Islam's beliefs in class one day.

He said that there was a humility in Islam he admired as a Christian in that, as he put it, there was a recognition of God as the Creator, and of ourselves as creatures created by God. He explained Allahu akbar was an expression of that, and that it was what was meant by the statement God is God.

It stuck with me even as I stayed a Christian. It just helped me to let go and let God a little more, as they say in Alanon. I posted earlier about how much that program helped me spiritually, too.

I guess the way I'd amend the thought would be "God is God" (and aren't we all glad I'm not?). Ha.

Thanks for posting what you said about Islam. It helped me in my personal reflection today.

im religious person, I don't have to go to church every sunday, I don't need to read bible every day
I can pray anywhere at any time and lit the candle in my own room either for myself or for loved one, for health or for ones who are gone in remembrance of them wishing them to rest in peace

I don't like to talk about religion, but I do respect everyones religious view, practice, beliefs even if it is different than mine

as long as we don't abuse, hurt ourselves or anyone else are we religious or not we are doing good

the cycle goes like, first its thought, then it becomes words, then it can go into real action, there is 10 commandments in Christianity, if all of us would follow it then there would be less pain in this world