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What are your thoughts on religion and what do you believe in?

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JP1119 · 36-40, M
Was raised a Christian and still more or less consider myself one. I hold some beliefs though that are highly unusual for Christians where I live, such as that I don’t believe in hell. Just today at work I was considering the dilemma of whether or not to believe in God/Heaven either. There’s neither any scientific evidence for the existence of God nor any logical necessity for him, but he still could exist. If there is a Heaven it would seem to serve as a disincentive to live one’s life to the fullest because you know you still have the afterlife to look forward to; on the other hand, even when humans don’t believe in Heaven and do live their lives to the fullest, this world is full of injustice and cruelty. Relationships get destroyed, hearts broken. Some of those wrongs get righted here in this life, but many more never do. I would hate to think that in most cases evil and pain get the final word, the last laugh. That separation from your loved ones is forever. After all we’ve been through, everyone, or at least the vast majority of us deserve something much better when this life is over.