Please Help. I am questioning my Religion.

[Rational Agnostic]

It is good to question things.

My q-you want help getting out, or getting back in?

I'm assuming he wants to figure out the truth, which is why I recommended him to read both pro and anti Christianity books.

 

[Vinayaka]

To be honest, it's very conflicting for me. I am Eastern Orthodox, over the past years, my faith has dropped significant. I stopped praying to God, and now I am stuck into thinking that there is not enough evidence to support that he existed. I am sort of Agnostic at the moment, and I don't like that. When people say that God is savioir and lord, I secretly cringe and think they are fools who are worshipping a fictional character.

Somebody, please help, because I am questioning my religion. By the way, I am only 15. I will never practice Satanism, so my thoughts about being an Atheist are crossed.

Religions for me are not powerful as before, and I know I am wrong. Thank you.

I think you could benefit by expanding on what constitutes religion. It's much more than Abrahamism, or atheism. There are other gropups of religions like the dharmic ones, (Sikhism, Buddhism, Hinduism) and Asian ones, (Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism) that are outside your current model. The very concept of God is different that what you indicated. Best wishes, it's a vast world to explore.

 

[tayla]

Eastern Orthodox, over the past years, my faith has dropped significant. I stopped praying to God, and now I am stuck into thinking that there is not enough evidence to support that he existed

If you think this religion is false, you should reject it. I believe in a personal God who is good and beautiful, but admittedly this is not easy to harmonize with a universe having a planet with suffering creatures.

 

[Jainarayan]

If you think this religion is false, you should reject it. I believe in a personal God who is good and beautiful, but admittedly this is not easy to harmonize with a universe having a planet with suffering creatures.

And that dilemma is usually answered in one of two ways in the Abrahamic faiths:

1. It's God's will, who are we to question him, he has a plan, he works in mysterious ways.
2. There can't be a God, because if he were loving and good he wouldn't allow suffering.

However, there is a 3rd option that is rarely considered: God does not control or micromanage things, he is not a puppet master. He is not sitting on some cushy throne in the sky rubbing his hands together saying "I think I'll give this child cancer. No! Better yet, I'll let her burn to death in a house fire. bwahahahaha". The Heathen, Pagan and Dharmic religions understand this. What happens is the workings of the universe, wyrd, karma, quantum mechanics, whatever. The universe is a violent place, it sucks and it wants to kill you.

 

[tayla]

The universe is a violent place, it sucks and it wants to kill you.

Indeed it does. Yet I sense there is a God who is good and beautiful who I can interact with.

 

[tayla]

God does not control or micromanage things, he is not a puppet master.

I'm inclined to agree, but this makes God as not the all-powerful creator of this universe and of all conscious creatures in it. It seems pantheistic when considering the origins of the universe.