Have you ever been confused about your religious identity?

Yes.

As I have studied more and more I have changed my views from different times in my life, going from the religion of my parents to a somewhat agnostic in High School & College, the the fairly confident Christian I am today.

Hi, AJ, great to see you posting on this board again!

Yes, I went through a period of religious identity conflict.  I became disenchanted with the Southern Baptist teachings I grew up with, and made the huge-at-the-time conversion to being a Lutheran.  That church was far more dignified, and played classical music (Bach, et al) on an amazing true tracker-action pipe organ.  So different from the holy-roller 'praise' music of the Southern Baptists, plus the members seemed to be more normal, less obsessed with religion being the be-all and end-all of their lives.  They seemed to keep it in a more realistic perspective; in contrast, the SB's seemed almost cultish.

But then I was in college at the time, and exposed to the horrors (through art history) of the Christian crusades, then exposed to the vastly different art and religions of the East.  I flirted for a time with Buddhism, and still wear a lovely carved jade Buddha pendant.  Buddhism seemed to be the most non-violent of the organized religions.

But then I married an agnostic atheist who agreed that we could each have our own beliefs/ non-beliefs; no conversion attempts on either side.  His Secular Humanist ethics and values drove home to me that being a decent human being didn't depend on having a religion at its core.  Then, his support of me through cancer treatment was based in science and fact, rather than prayer and false hope.  I started to embrace just what science could prove through the scientific method, and any religious beliefs I had were pretty much gone.

He passed away a few years later, a victim of a terminal illness that he was actually fascinated with, and wished he had enough time left to go back to school and study it.  After his death, I developed a friendship with someone who was a true atheist, and I never looked back.  Everything made sense at that point; no plan, no intelligent design, just natural law and evolution.  And my atheist friend is one of the most compassionate Secular Humanists I've ever known.  

All religions have their positive points and negative points; I have read up on Jainism and it is an interesting religion.  But I am clearly an atheist and content with having questions about the universe that science has yet to explain.  I'd rather have questions and uncertainty than false facts that masquerade as certainties.  And religion is so easily perverted and used to manipulate people.

Just my views...

I remember Saint Frankenstein. He posted on the Soapbox as well for a while. As far as I recall, he'd be an anarchist one day and a fascist/neo-Nazi the next, so he seemed to be confused about more than just religion.

Anyway, I've never been religious. I wasn't born into a religious family, so I didn't have any religious convictions as a kid, and growing up I never encountered a good reason to change my mind. The only notable change is that over the last year or so I've drifted to a more agnostic/skeptical position whereas before I would have outright denied the existence of god.

I'm an atheist, I've always been an atheist (I was actually raised with almost zero exposure to religion/religious ideas until I was in my mid-teens), and I've never been "confused" about it.

The closest you could say I've come to being "confused" is that I have some affinity for both LaVeyan Satanism and Zen Buddhism--the latter more in its "pop" sense. But neither is really a religion on many accounts--there's no deity, for example, and there is enough that I disagree with when it comes to both that I'd avoid identifying myself as a follower of either.

I'm a Christian, but have not found a single denomination or church that really fits me. I don't agree with many of the conservative beliefs, but then others fall into the opposite extreme. It is a curious thing to feel somewhat alone when your general religion is for now, numerically, the most widespread on the planet...but that is my situation.

Not really confused. Until I became a firm atheist, I honestly didn't care enough about God to give much consideration to whether or not it exists. I remember that ghastly poster 'Saint Frankenstein'. Obnoxious, not very bright poseur who later became excessively religious.