I don't think you can experience a nothingness, an motional void or emotional sadness maybe, but I don't think you can experience nothing, nothing is default. I do allow other aprehensions of God because I believe religion is just a way to form a definition of a concept of something extraneous generally reffered to as a God or Gods. It doesn't lead to nothing it leads you to God. I find that a funny phrase "something leading to nothing", in a causally constrcted universe how can something lead to nothing? It would just lead to a different something (and so on and so forth), only a nothing can propigate a nothing. Anyways, back on point. You then attempt to identify the cause of the experience and (hopefully) through reason you can choose the religion that supplies the closest concept of God to your experience personally with God. Typically though it's through indoctrination and upbringing that a religion is chosen.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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