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[quote=Anonymous]Raised Catholic, always struggled to believe, though I gave it a good go in my religion classes and at weekly mass. I used to pray a lot.

Then in college I took so many classes that had me questioning everything including the idea of souls. Pretty much came to the conclusion our "soul" is in our neurons.

Heaven never made any sense to me -- trillions of souls just hanging out, growing larger by the day, really? All the ideas of heaven I ever heard of sounded man-made.  And frankly eternity used to scare the sht out of me - I'd like at night wondering, when does eternity ever end? Really frightening to think about that.  And anyway if heaven is so awesome why can't we skip this earth part and just go there? What kind of sick god decides to create being and test them to see if they can get into paradise?

I got to a point where I was praying not to lose my faith. And it just never worked. I just couldn't believe. Especially a lot of the Christian stuff, such as the notion of a god deciding to have a son to "sacrifice" - that started to seem silly when I really thought about it. Maybe it worked in a different time period. But why in the world would an almighty god need to "sacrifice" a "son"? Weird.

And so I finally decided that was okay not to believe. I stopped going to church and stopped praying. And things have been alright.

I mean in some ways it would be really comforting to think there's an afterlife (except for that terrifying eternity part). Or some higher being out there who watches out and cares for all the trillions and trillions of humans who have ever existed. But it's not something I can believe. I guess I'm too logical.

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