Attitudes To Life and The Beyond

Nicholas van Rijn seems to have been Catholic from birth and never to have questioned his faith. Born in poverty, he has concentrated first on survival, then on the accumulation of wealth.

Dominic Flandry remains unable to believe despite having been engaged to a Dennitzan Orthochristian who was assassinated and will later be canonized by her own people.

Axor is converted to Jerusalem Catholicism and seeks further evidence to confirm his faith.

Here is a fourth response to religion:

"[Juniper] had no doubt [Tom Brannigan]'d taken up the Craft because everyone else in Sutterdown seemed to be converting..."
-SM Stirling, The Protector's War (New York, 2006), Chapter Thirteen, p. 363.

Everyone must make his own decisions. For what it is worth:

unlike van Rijn, I did question received beliefs;
unlike Axor, I see no reason to convert;
unlike Brannigan, I would not go with the crowd.

That leaves me with Flandry - except that spiritual practice and experience need not depend on belief.