Religion/Belief

To give a little background:

My family are fairly religious, both my parents and my sister have been confirmed.

As a young child I used to go to Church and Sunday school.

My path to righteousness deviated at the age of 8 some 26yrs ago, when my best friend Hugh died of Encephalitis.

I can't believe that a 'God' would take an 8yr old child from this world, my best friend and all! Why him? Why not some old person, he had so much to give and he was taken away.

His Mum who I still see on occasions has all the faith in the world, goes to Church and teaches at the Sunday School, I don't get how she can forgive? but each to their own I think.

I've talked to my Mum about how she can still believe, My Mum and Dad had two still births and their 3rd child only survived 5 hours, so they decided to adopt my sister and me instead of trying again, yet she has an amazing faith!

I'm sat here with tears in my eyes wondering if I'm missing out on something by not believing in God/someone...

I just don't get it?? but I'm so fucking stubborn that I refuse to believe in something till it's proven!

But where does my lack of belief turn hypocritical?

Well I go to Weddings and funerals and sing along to the Hymns, but my way of of dealing with the hypocrisy is by not saying the obligatory Lords Prayer or Amen at the end of of everything.

So as an Agnostic I'm taking the easy route in life, people can believe in anything they want as long as it doesn't cause suffering and they don't try and throw it down my throat unless they have absolute proof of course.

Sorry for length/rambling... (and spelling/grammatical errors, I failed English!)

Regards
Kip


P.s. Enzyme, you are doing a fucking magic job this week!




(Kip, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 9:43, 2 replies)

Awww....
Thanks!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 15:19, closed)

I don't get this either..
It's like when one person prays all their life so nothing bad happens to them, and when something 'does' happen they use the old "God wanted this to happen" approach.
I mean, doesn't that mean the whole thing is a waste?
( PoshMurder <goat head>, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 16:04, closed)