Do you believe in God or a higher being? Do you pray? What do you Pray for? Do you follow any organized religion? What does this belief give you?

 

This is extremely hard for me to comment on. There was once a time when I believed in God or Jesus while I was in a catholic school and they made sure you knew about these two mighty powers, but after awhile I began to think about it. How do we know that all of what we’re being told is completely true. Its like the internet- information can be made up, and perhaps someone made up the Holy bible to create the image of a bigger power, perhaps for hope, but I can’t help to think maybe its fake.  I do believe in something bigger than us though, I believe in fate. Everything happens for a reason- if its meant to be it’ll be. I just question a God that would he create so much struggle in the world. I’m not really sure, it could be his fight to make us realize we’re ruining our own world… But I just don’t know. 

 

A couple years ago, I met a new friend.  I felt that she and her friends were the only people that believed the same morals as I did.  I believed that the reason behind this was that she was Christian.  After spending a lot of time with her, I eventually started to believe in God.  I was glad that I had found this belief.  But about half a year later, I started doubting this belief.  At first I felt extremely confused about what I believed.  It wasn’t long after that I discovered my favourite song: “The Poet and the Pendulum” by Nightwish.  During the chorus, I found I could relate to the lines: “Forgive me/I have but two faces/One for the world/One for God/Save me”  To me, this line asked the question “does God exist?” which is what I was asking myself at the time.  Eventually, I decided that the answer to the question was no.  I no longer believe that there is a god other than my own freewill.  I can still believe that drugs are bad, but I am not also restrained by any organized religion, who would tell me I shouldn’t swear, listen to music that swears, or that I have to throw out playing cards.  Instead, I am given freedom to believe what I want to believe.I do not pray.  If something is going to happen eventually, it’s going to happen whether I pray about it or not.  Even after trying for a week, I never prayed for my Windows 7 disc to actually work and get Windows 7 installed on our computer.  One day, a little voice in my head told me what to search and where to search it, and I quickly found the answer I had been looking for.