Is there anyone here who is disillusioned or has left the Christian church

I've been a christian a long long time. Born into the Catholic church, but became a Pentecostal in my 20s. Here's the thing. My daughter and husband both have disabilities. In several churches, we were ignored due to those disabilities. I also cannot believe that God would ever hate or ban same-sex marriage, homosexuality & those who do not hold conservative values. I also don't believe that Jesus was the only messenger. There are far too many similarities between the major religions that can show that, in essence, they are similar.

I left that system of belief, but don't know where to turn. I've been getting more involved in Buddism, but have nowhere close to sit zazen or talk with a teacher. I'm searching for someone I guess who can help.

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BlueSkyKing · M

I believe in evidence, the stronger the better. Anything that has magic involved I have zero tolerance.

“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever