I think my crisis of faith may be coming to an end very soon; here are some things that I've realized.

Random thoughts to follow....

My mother was the closest thing to pure "good" I ever knew. Did tons of things for the church, visited the sick, the elderly (even took them out to eat), taught us to be kind to everyone....she was rewarded for all of that with 26 years of Parkinson's, and as if that wasn't enough, she got arthritis as well - shaking arthritic joints has to be painful. It eventually prevented her from being able to go to church to worship that very god that had let this befall her (according to believers, god makes miracles happen). I see no purpose in the suffering she endured - none whatsoever.

The biblical god and its prophets committed many an immoral act, things that no one I or you know would commit. That makes all of us more moral than supposedly the most moral and loving being of all time, which is a gigantic contradiction, showing really that it's all just man-made.

What? The Bible has been revised? Has errors? Contradictions? How is it that the biblical god failed to protect its own sacred word?

Anyone can read the Bible? Then why is it that a plain reading results in apologists having to constantly explain it, and note that the parts we get wrong are "out of context?" Clearly, it's not a book to be read by all people.

How is it we can treat demonic possession with man-made medicine - that it's a diagnosable medical condition?

How is it that despite all the claimed medical miracles that occur no one has ever regrown a lost finger, toe, hand, foot, arm, leg, eye, etc.?

How is it that the Bible got anything scientifically wrong, ever?

Why has Christianity evolved from its origins, that modern Christians are so different from ancient Christians?

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