Is it normal to wish i believed in god?

"or believed that I was always better than others" - condescending

"believing in god you don't become happy" - condescending

"you only become ignorant and unable to prevent sadness" - condescending

yea im pretty sure your religious friend didnt say ANY of that bullshit

Believe what you want to believe, you have free will, and guess who gave it to you?

im literally struggling with this right now. after being a catholic for 17 years of my young life and just now transitioning to atheism its really hard

I know what you mean. I'm struggling with this too. Recently I've had a lot of doubts. But it all boils down to the fact that the world would be more peaceful without religion. I've kind of concluded that I do still believe in God, but I just don't want to be associated as a Christian, only because of how terrible *some* Christians are, and how children are blindly forced into it. I'm 22, and while I still believe in God, I don't think I need to prove it by going to church around all those fake people. I wouldn't go if it weren't for my grandma, to be honest. She's having a lot of health problems and I don't want to give her anything else to worry about, because I love her and I don't want to hurt her. Other than that, I don't really want anything else to do with church people. I've heard the stuff they say about people and I think its hypocritical. So I don't know where to go from here honestly. Just stay true to yourself and don't let anyone sway you in either direction you're not comfortable with. If you don't want to believe, no one has the right to make you, and if you DO want to, no one should talk you out of it. Its up to you, and the true answer will come from within.

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.

You condescending fk. Take that shit somewhere else!

Doesn't seem normal to wish ignorance on yourself. Ignorant people are only happy till they step off a cliff.

This isn't uncommon for atheists, given that the vast majority of us were brought up in one religion or another.

I occasionally wish that too until I have a laugh at myself remembering the childhood years of terror that I wasn't a good enough christian and if I died god would send me to hell. Who would want to go back to that?

It's possible to be a spiritual atheist by the way, you don't need a god or gods or a goddess to be spiritual