Can someone tell me what their own faith feels like and what they believe in?
About me: I was raised religious (Christian). I never really questioned my faith, and my father actively lived out Christianity for me. For a while, I even helped organize children’s church in our congregation. Because of that, I find it hard to clearly say what I actually want to express maybe partly out of fear.
The point is: religion doesn’t make sense to me. On the contrary, it sometimes feels very wrong to me. I think that to make this discussion a bit more precise, we need to look at the concept of belief independently from organized religion.
For me, belief means the idea of something greater in everything and nothing, and the notion that this “force” exists. I believe in this idea of a force call it God, the universe, nothingness, it doesn’t really matter. I also believe that language itself is a limiting factor that makes it harder to describe this more precisely.
However, the idea of God as a man who judges me, and the way religion is lived and practiced by many people often to further divide people into groups feels very, very wrong to me. The idea that God can only exist in the one form that religions usually describe, and cannot be anything else, also feels very foreign to me.
My main points where I’m asking for your experiences, opinions, or thoughts are roughly these:
1. Am I intellectualizing the topic too much? And if so, is there a way to counteract that?
2. What is the origin of your own belief, and how did it come about? (Maybe I just haven’t figured out yet what belief means for me.)
3. One could say that it’s fine to simply believe what I already believe—but part of the conflict for me is that I would like to remain religious. Ideally, I would just want it to feel sincere and authentic again, if that makes sense. Basically, if there is a chance to continue being religious, I would choose that.
Thanks in advance for all the input may the right people find this!
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