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I also have a problem with faith. I was raised Episcopalian and have investigated Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Recently I realized that I really don't believe much that any church teaches and never have. I don't believe that Jesus was the son of God. And the only message I've ever gotten from any Christian sect I've studied is that I will suffer everlasting damnation if I make one wrong move.
At the moment I think that I am real and the world around me is real. The world is not a figment of my imagination and I am not the figment of anyone's imagination. Since I don't think that things give rise to themselves, I think the world must have been created by something outside of it. This thing/God/Creator/whatever set up laws so that the world could run itself (laws of motion, thermodynamics, etc) and then left the world completly alone. This creator does not interfere with the world at all and therefore all revealed religions are just wishful thinking. Because the creator does not interfere in the world we know nothing about him/her/it and so we cannot assume that he/she/it cares about us and I think it is unlikely that he/she/it does.
I'm sorry if that is rambling and confusing, it is the first time I've written down what I believe. I'm also sorry if any of it sounds inflammatory, I don't mean it to be. I have no personal objection to religious people. I think they are wrong but I try not to preach.
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