Religion, Why do you believe what you believe? Options

[Spectatrix]

Some discussion about Christianity has popped up in a few threads lately, so I thought I'd start this one. This is NOT a thread for bashing another person's beliefs.

Basically, I'm curious as to what people believe in terms of religion/spirituality and why. Looking at religions from an outside perspective, it seems to me that most would seem inspiring in some ways, but not necessarily true. What has led you to believe that your religion is true and that the stories (in the Bible, Koran, Torah, Baghavad Gita, etc. etc.) aren't just inspirational fiction?

What have you experienced or what research have you done that has convinced you one way or the other?

[Spectatrix]

That's simply called being uncertain.

Agnostics believe either that both the existence and non-existence of god is unprovable (strong agnostic) or that they currently have not been convinced one way or the other, but that it might be proveable one way or the other (weak agnostic).