[Patrick Vykkers]

I reached my views on religion via logic, reason and a desire for spectacles involving lots of cannibalism and candles.

More seriously, I looked, I considered, I read, I researched, and I chose. Simple as that. The fact I had been present when my Catholic college graduate sister had been baptised was also an influence, and at the time I was dealing with some psychological issues.

Since then, I've been a consistent theistic Catholic, though my views on other religions have changed over time. My anti-Islam views came around a year and a half ago when while researching the Muhammad cartoons (a controversy which made me sick even then) I had found a site called MuslimWakeUp, comprised of liberal Muslims wishing to reform Islam. I then was led on a trail to different sorts of websites, and when I weighed it up, the total arguments and to be perfectly honest, bandwagon that yet involved thinking for yourself factor made me start to look further and find Islam wasn't the religion of peace I desperately wanted to believe it was.

My views on Buddhism fluctuate, as do those on Hinduism. Sometimes I'm a unificationist pluralist, sometimes I'm a hardline "Jesus is the only way" person, but this varies with mood and life experience.