Troubles with finding religion

So I grew up in the LDS church ("Mormons") and I was never very active in it, but I believed in God and Jesus and even that Joseph Smith was a prophet. I'm not even remotely part of the church anymore because of the way I've seen them handle things. In my opinion they hide child abuse and sex offenders just as bad as the Catholics. If you do something and then tell your bishop I think the bishop should tell you to turn yourself in and confess to the authorities. But that's another story.

My problem is that I can't find a church that gives me that spiritual feeling and reassurance that there is a God and the things Jesus taught are true. Everything seems fake and even when I read and study the Bible on my own I'm unsure about a lot of things. I know there's a God and Jesus died on the cross and came back from the dead and all the things he did isn't just a fairy tale made up by the System to keep their people in check. I still do have faith just not the spiritual feelings that gave reassurance.

Has anyone else lost their faith and how are you supposed to get it back?

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BlueSkyKing · M

“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Lostpoet · M

@BlueSkyKing I have faith and to me that's just as good as anything else.

BlueSkyKing · M

@Lostpoet “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
― Richard Dawkins

Lostpoet · M

@BlueSkyKing There's evidence all around us some people are just morally and spiritually blind. Just read the parts about Jesus in the Bible and ask yourself if he didn't live a perfect life and he died for are sins as innocent as a lamb.

Although I say this my faith has diminished and I want to learn how to get it back. I've made this argument on here before that I'd rather live as a Christian and there being no heavenly rewards than to live like a heathen and there being no hellish punishment.

I don't follow Richard Dawkins.

BlueSkyKing · M

@Lostpoet I was raised Roman Catholic. My first doubts was as a teen with the concept of "limbo". But if I looked into the slavery issue, I would have ditched Christianity decades ago. There is no justification of a human owning another human.