why religion and which religion my family has never been particularly religious singing christmas carols is about the limit for them thus i ve never really believed in god and heaven although i don t actually believe that they don t exist either i m sort of undecided probably like a lot of people i guess lately i ve been thinking about it all a lot more and i wondered how religious people can be so convinced that there is a god i feel as though i want to believe but i m not used to believing things without proof just as i can t believe that there definitely isn t a god so i can t definitely believe that there is i wondered if most of you were brought up by religious families and never believed any different can anyone help me to understand how your belief and faith in god can be so strong another question that frequently crosses my mind is which religion is correct how do you choose a religion and how do you know that the christian god exists and the gods of other religions don t how do you feel about people who follow other religions how about atheists and people like me agnostics i suppose do you respect their religion and accept their beliefs as just as valid as your own isn t there contradiction between the religions how can your religion be more valid than any others do you have less respect for someone if they re not religious or if they follow a different religion than you would if they were christian also how much of the scriptures are correct are all events in the bible really supposed to have happened or are they just supposed to be stories with morals showing a true christian how to behave i generally follow most of the christian ideas which i suppose are fairly universal throughout all religions not killing stealing etc and loving my neighbour for want of a better expression the only part i find hard is the actual belief in god finally what is god s attitude to people like me who don t quite believe in him but are generally fairly good people surely not believing doesn t make me a worse person if not i find myself wondering why i so strongly want to really believe and to find a religion sorry if i waffled on a bit i was just writing ideas as they came into my head i m sure i probably repeated myself a bit too thanks for the help paul simmons there s been enough discussion about evidence for christianity recently that you may prefer to respond to this via email rather than as a posting clh
