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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe I am ‘losing my religion’ as we speak. 
I have been an active Methodist all of my life; I married a Catholic guy who goes through all the motions but doesn’t actually have deep faith. I realized we keep up the pretense for our children (kind of like the Santa analogy above) because my Methodist church provides a convenient way to help us reaffirm the values we want to instill in our children.

I want to live like Jesus... I just don’t think any religion has any (provable) truth deeper than old earthly creation stories that morphed into stories of divinity. 
This has been a mix of influence of my anthropological education background / having children / burying loved ones / not feeling stronger faith as I age, but the opposite. Shouldn’t faith strengthen as we invest in it? I’ve given it 42 years.

I am struggling with this, though. It’s tough to let go or something after a lifetime of trying. [/quote]

Maybe you can let go without entierely giving it up.  For instance, keep the favorite music without the unbelievable words, the good moral teachings, without the supernatural frills, the holidays without the beliefs.[/quote]

Also, it might help to think of it as a change, not a loss.  I think the idea of loss comes from the religious idea of losing eternal life- something that we never actually had. Or the idea that non-believers are sad, empty people with no morals, headed for a hell that in reality, does not exist, anymore than heaven does.[/quote]

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