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My little story of me not believing in God😊

I remember believing in God when I was a child because my auntie would take me to church every Sunday. She would make me pray to Him almost every night before bed.
I remember when my hometown's Mall had all of their rooms booked with stores: Forever21, JCPenny, a Chinese restaurant and other stores as well as an arcade that no-one would give me money to play any game. In the area going to the Chinese restaurant, there would be a coin well where you can make a wish by rolling a penny down there. (The "well" is still there, I think) I would ask my aunt for a penny and made a couple of wishes. I wasn't optimistic about my repeated wish coming true. I would wish, "I wish my mom had a lot of money." I recall a couple of times while praying before bed that I would wish that God could magically make my mom rich or just enough money so she could buy her kids the things we wanted.
After a couple years after the wish, I started to stop believing in God because he didn't grant me my wish. I hadn't been very optimistic about my wish when I made it, so I took "Your wish will come true." With skepticism.
The year 2018, age 16, my life had gotten a little better since my mom was getting a bit more money. I had thought that God was behind it, but I still didn't believe He exists. Up until now, I have realized that Christianity isn't the only religion and that there may be multiple gods to exist. I am going to live with that possibility of there being multiple gods ans deities instead of one. This doesn't mean that I don't believe, all I'm saying is that there are possibilities of there being more than one god. I respect any religion, because at the end of the day, we can't force others to believe in something that they don't want to believe, or force them to believe in something outside of their religion, like forcing Christianity on Mormons and vice versa.
Valerian · 100+, M
RELIGION is a HUMAN Attempt to put MEANING and PURPOSE into the Mysterious World, that is Complex and Not Wasy to Deal With.

Coupled with the Desire to Belong, Be Wanted, Be Loved, and have a Community of Likewise Thinking HUMANS then you get a CHURCH!

Add a Demonstrative Charismatic Special Godly HUMAN LEADER of the CHURCH who Purports to Know the Wishes Of and/or Speak to the "Supreme Being" who Requires WORSHIP, ACCEPTANCE, BELIEF & FAITH (AND of course Money to Pay the LEADERS and PERPETUATE the RELIGION).

Usually the "Supreme Being" is GOD, but CHURCH HUMANS Talk to GOD, Trust GOD, BELIEVE in GOD, Hear About GOD from the HUMAN LEADER.

GOD is Nebulous Entity, a Concept, a Power, a "FATHER", but Really GOD isn't around for the Ordinary HUMANS to See! GOD supposedly does things, but they are seemingly just the HUMANS and their HUMAN LEADERS Saying, "Behold GOD was Here!" because LEADERS Gotta PERPETUATE the RELIGION and
CHURCH HUMANS are Believing, Wanting, Needing the MEANING and PURPOSE!

RELIGION is a HUMAN CREATION
that is
NOT GOD'S CREATION!

Take Everything that GOD is Supposed to be; OMNIPOTENT, ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING, ALL LOVING, and Able To CREATE a UNIVERSE, CREATE LIFE and DESTROY it ALL as GOD Desires. Hey! That could All be TOTALLY WRONG! Because YOU Cannot Apply or even Think Correctly About GOD with HUMAN's limlted CONCEPTS and ATTRIBUTES!

That's like applying BUG 🦗 THOUGHTS, CONCEPTS and ATTRIBUTES to HUMANS

Do you think GOD has Anything to do with Religion or Church or the Leaders? Do you think GOD has Even ? NOTICED Humans, the Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy?

GOD is no more than a CONJECTURE, Not Quite PROVABLE, Not Quite DISPROVABLE by HUMANS!

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION!

Good Luck!
Xalvadora · 18-21, F
@Valerian This is what people need to realize: God cannot be proven, yet they believe a book about tales, but doesnt believe a fairytale book.
@Valerian I believe that God is consciousness, not matter of any type. It is everywhere, but It is not perfect. God is lonely and experiences life vicariously through us humans. God dreams and imagines everything, and it is all preordained. One good thing- he left us with a tiny bit of free will; he limited the capacity of our p[piece of consciousness so that It would remain a mystery. Well, I will never stop searching for the truth, even if it really does kill me. God is, was, and always will be. Keep pushin' on...
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain
Ynotisay · M
@BlueSkyKing Good one. He was putting some very direct words out about organized religion at a time when it was a big no-no. I always liked this one. "If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
religion cannot be respected. religion is the process of a group of people believing in a common egregore.
Xalvadora · 18-21, F
@fakable That's what you think.
@Xalvadora That's what you think.
Xalvadora · 18-21, F
@fakable An equal response. Toucé.
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@sirenofthesea Near-Death experiences, sudden awakenings, psychedelic transformation, astral projection, meditation-induced conscious states, and I could go on and regarding these mystical components. I went through a spiritual emergence that almost killed me, and let me tell you... there is ONE God/Consciousness, and It is ALL love. Be grateful for your existence. Don't throw the whole purpose and meaning of love right out the window. If you keep thinking this was, you will never find true happiness and absolute/complete consciousness for a long time. It may take many lives for people with this mindset to transform into the awakened state that feels so fuckin' great you have no idea. Good luck.
Just keep faith in Yourself coz the Ultimate Power lies within You.

 
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