One point that stuck for me was reincarnation. I'd gotten interested in science in parallel, and couldn't figure out how the soul could exist. I remember reading a popsci article on how the brain transmitted thoughts via electrical waves and feeling shaken
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Around the end of high school, I read Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". It convinced me religion was a lie. Became a fairly obnoxious freshman atheist who tried to talk all my dormmates out of believing in religion lol
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I remember thinking about then, as a senior in high school, that what then was the soul? What was the root of consciousness? I imagined it as a grand and complex equation that if one could understand, would unlock the secrets of the world
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I bought myself a copy of Russell and Norvig and dived into reading... That's all for now I think. I will say that my views on religion have evolved considerably from my high school views. Some ideas are hard to understand without life experience.
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