I like this post. The way I explain it is that it isn't believing that God exists that's important but rather believing that God wants the best for us. I am a Catholic by conversion and break it down like this: I love prayer. Not the act of it, but what it does for me. It helps me increase in faith (which is just trusting that God knows what he's doing and letting go of the things we can't affect, which is what self-help books tell you to do anyway). I try to keep many things as secrets and tell them only to God in prayer (this is a personal sacrifice because I am such a loud-mouth and tell everyone everything on my mind...so even giving up telling 5 people about some minor event in my life is pretty big for me). I love the sacraments of the Church. For example, confession is awesome cause it lets you get big things off your chest without ruining your reputation. One last tidbit is that God forgives, and men seldom do. The world will give you its own secular dogma to follow (all society's peculiar rules that aspies are all too aware of), but God says to follow his own which saves us from society's failings and forgives us from whatever wrongs we commit - something we can't expect from society. Society also doesn't have a back-up plan for when things go wrong. I don't know if you actually want to believe or are just saying that, but I will pray for you and meditate on this topic, as I think it is important especially in our age.
Is it normal to wish I believed in god?
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I like this post. The way I explain it is that it isn't believing that God exists that's important but rather believing that God wants the best for us. I am a Catholic by conversion and break it down like this: I love prayer. Not the act of it, but what it does for me. It helps me increase in faith (which is just trusting that God knows what he's doing and letting go of the things we can't affect, which is what self-help books tell you to do anyway). I try to keep many things as secrets and tell them only to God in prayer (this is a personal sacrifice because I am such a loud-mouth and tell everyone everything on my mind...so even giving up telling 5 people about some minor event in my life is pretty big for me). I love the sacraments of the Church. For example, confession is awesome cause it lets you get big things off your chest without ruining your reputation. One last tidbit is that God forgives, and men seldom do. The world will give you its own secular dogma to follow (all society's peculiar rules that aspies are all too aware of), but God says to follow his own which saves us from society's failings and forgives us from whatever wrongs we commit - something we can't expect from society. Society also doesn't have a back-up plan for when things go wrong. I don't know if you actually want to believe or are just saying that, but I will pray for you and meditate on this topic, as I think it is important especially in our age.