I wish I could be religious

Grew up Catholic but as I grew older I became agnostic. But my dad only has weeks to live, from aggressive cancer. It's just breaking my heart and mind. I send out prayer type thoughts to the Universe that he can not be in pain as he faces these final days. I REALLY want an answer why there's so MUCH suffering in the world.

I wish I could just believe or feel he'll be going to Heaven and that his spirit will live in a peaceful place. Even talking about all this is a blur, he was diagnosed just two weeks ago. 😕 And to not be given chemo as a choice, it's been heartbreaking..(they said he is very compromised and the cancer is very aggressive, chemo can kill him ) I don't know how to view this all , when his passing comes..😟

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Adstar · 56-60, M

I have prayed for your dad...

Once the world because faulty when humanity took on the knowledge of good and evil then pain and suffering in this world is one of the outward signs that this faultyness is active and constant in our current lives.. So pain and suffering is a constant indicator to show us there is a problem with our current state of being..

Just to let you know my dad died of boan cancer and he went through pain and my Mom died after an operation where her wound ( hip breakage ) got infected during the operation.. So in the last 6 years i ahev lost both my pairents, So i know what it is like to watch people die with varying levels of pain..