Ideas, not Beliefs

I have come to the realization that at this point in my life, I don't have beliefs. I have ideas. I say this because ideas can be easily changed. Beliefs, not so much. I am anti-dogma and anti-organized religion, for myself. 

I have gone back and forth between referring to myself as atheist or not. I suppose by definition, I am. But I don't feel like I need a label. I don't feel like I need to place myself in any sort of box. I am just me. I think and reason as only I can. 

Beliefs are dangerous. They cause people to do all kinds of ugly things. People will literally DIE over their beliefs and for them. Beliefs cannot be questioned. Ideas always can. Ideas are truly openminded. 

Letting go of beliefs previously held has literally given me such feelings of freedom and release. 

Believers will always assume that people leave the church and they leave religion because they want to live immoral lives. They are leaving so that they can go out and be all sorts of criminal and sinful. 

That's not it. At least not for me and I know it's not the case for many others like me. I didn't look at my life, feel like I missed out on life due to the church and turned away from it to sow my wild oats, so to speak. Nope. I had doubts about scripture and doctrine. I had questions about theology. Slowly, over the years I went from believing completely, to asking questions, to trying to massage my understanding to make the Bible more palatable to realizing things don't add up. I walked away because I don't have it in me to believe. I just have some ideas. And I think that's what the Bible is. It's stories and ideas. That's all.