December Deck Time and Thursday Theology

There aren't many December mornings that I get to spend time on the deck. Today is peculiar in that this morning's temperature is the warmest of the day and the day will be getting colder as it progresses.

Speaking of progress...
I've been considering religion a lot lately and I am wondering if questioning ones beliefs is a mark of a strong faith or a weak one. I really don't expect everybody's faith journey to be like mine, but I wonder about people that have no faith journey -- only a faith that remains the same for year after year and decade after decade. 
Nothing is challenged.
Nothing is questioned.
We believe what we have been taught without examination.
Nothing changes.

Is that faith?
It sounds more like indoctrination.

I've said it before and I will say it again:
The farther I got from religion, the closer I got to God.

My path is not your path.
But maybe you would benefit from challenging what you have been taught.
Check sources. 
Check the origins of the stories that your faith is based on.
Question everything.

Or don't.
If you are happy in your current state, be happy.
If your happiness is dependent on you condemning others, then you have a weird faith and a strange god.

John