It pains me to see people abandon their Christian faith. I keep seeing similar reasons for it which are ironically many of the things that have driven me to deeper faith.
I get the fakiness of modern Christianity. I get the weariness after striving to do it all right and force the doubts out. I get the deep confusing questions and incomprehensible juxtopositions they ask us to believe. But what I don't think these people have done, is go far enough in their questions. They get fed up and jump off into another easy, pan-fried ready-to-eat explanation of the world.
But if the first however many you looked into didn't do it, why would you think the next will? I'm speaking to the real seekers here. You hedonists and others content to find justification for splashing in the kiddie pool just go back to your toys and we'll talk when you can actually see me. But to you seekers, if you haven't found your answers in the teachings of men, stop looking.
You think science disproves religion and holds the answer but you don't truly understandy science, that's why you see it so mystically hopeful. I am a scientist. Science for all its good, can never satisfy the need you want to fill. It isn't the same animal. You are trying to find meaning for your existence in a process that explains observable phenomenon. That's like asking a toaster how bread tastes! To put it in more logical terms, the tool can never explain the system itself. It is a product of the system.
But disputation and arguing will not convince you either. Only experience. And as far as that can go in a blog, let me ask you : Have you searched or can you even search enough of the possible nooks and crannies of the universe to determine with any accuracy that a God does or does not exist? If you think so, come see me when your next crutch breaks.
So none of us can prove or disprove existence of a deity. But we can use our own internal compass and follow what is right and good, to the best that we can perceive it. So do that! No really do it.
I'm challenging you who have abandoned your Christian faith to read the closest thing we have to first-hand accounts of Jesus yourself, shedding what you have been taught. And simply try what he says to do. Find one objectionable thing! I'm telling you, you won't find it.
Do you hate authoritarian dogma? So did he. Want fairness for women? So did he. Want true justice for all people apart from the tainted partisan-pleasing definitions? So did he! Hate religion as a divisive and controlling institution? So did he! And in a far more radical way than you have, I'll bet.
Unless you've left your home and career to gather a band of outcasts intent on living an uncompromising new world order and been branded a state criminal, you don't even come close! So what do you really know about it?
To every objection you make to Christianity, I can show you how Jesus didn't advocate or teach that. And if so many millions of people find something in it to die for, it's just possible you might have missed something. Or are you just that convinced that everyone else is dumber than you? Try it! No, really try what he said. Not what someone else said about him. Use your own mind. If there's nothing to it, what do you have to lose, and no one to prove anything to anyway.
