filling a void left by Jesus?

[IndigoChild5559]

Lately I have abandoned Christianity and now consider myself an Agnostic. I kind of half believe and half disbelieve in a type of Supreme Being but most certainly not in the God of Abraham, as featured in The Bible.

I am therefore down a friend. But now I feel that he was never there in the first place

I have removed my golden crucifix from my golden chain but continue to wear the chain

Does anyone know how I can fill the spiritual void I feel now that Jesus Christ has evaporated out of my life?

It does help to have a religious community even if you do not fully accept all they teach, even if you do not do all they they do. Have you looked into, for example, unitarian universalists, who have a very undefined view of God and accept people with all sorts of different beliefs.

And perhaps you are too quick to give up the God of Abraham. Sometimes we take the Bible so literally, that we put God into this little tiny box, and he just doesn't fit. But its still him. It's only our box that is the problem.

Long ago, my religion professor told me about one of his favorite students, a Jew who had become an atheist. He had challenged his student, that given how important the potential existence of God is, perhaps he should put for the time worthy of such a find.

Several years went by, and the student returned to him. He had become a Buddhist. "So have you found God?" my professor asked. "No, but I have found great peace.

Many many more years went by, and again the student returned. "So what have you found?" "I have found that something exists under and around it all, something that is the source of all that there is, something beautiful and awesome beyond words." "So, do you now believe in God?" "Oh no, God does not exist.

ROTFL His view of "God" was so narrow, that, having found God, he didn't recognize God for who God was.

 

[metis]

It does help to have a religious community even if you do not fully accept all they teach, even if you do not do all they they do.

I totally agree.

Many moons ago, my wife and I were talking about this, and we both felt and still feel that what both religious faith and humanism can do is to help establish basic morals to pass on to our children and our entire society.

However, there are always going to be some who use their faith as a wedge to divide society and the world into we/they dichotomies, whereas the "they" are demonized. As students of the Holocaust and other forms of genocide, we well know what this can end up looking like.

 

[Fallen Prophet]

Lately I have abandoned Christianity and now consider myself an Agnostic. I kind of half believe and half disbelieve in a type of Supreme Being but most certainly not in the God of Abraham, as featured in The Bible.

I am therefore down a friend. But now I feel that he was never there in the first place

I have removed my golden crucifix from my golden chain but continue to wear the chain

Does anyone know how I can fill the spiritual void I feel now that Jesus Christ has evaporated out of my life?

Here's a pic of him in action:

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Nope.