Earlier today while having a discussion with a friend of mine, she bought up how much negativity she has gone through and one thing she said that really stood out to me was, "I am tired of praying." This particular comment made me think about the concept of religion and prayer. I thought about how we use it and how we use it when we don't want to use it. Then I started to think more in depth about my own beliefs.
I believe in a God, per se, but not religion. I was raised around many Christians and feel that Christianity is just an interpretation, as well as many other systems of religion, of the world around us and its occurring events. There's no way I can say that Christianity is the only right religion, when there are thousands of them. There's too many obvious contradictions in it for me to follow it 100% anymore. Many religious texts have the same themes and motifs, such as the destruction of the earth and the rebirth of it. I'm starting to study and read into many belief systems to build my knowledge on spirituality, before I make a final decision as to what to believe. I'm confused about it all. But I do believe in a higher power. I just don't understand how we can read a book and assume everything in it is correct when there are obvious flaws lying within.
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