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Author Topic:   I have doubt in my religion
ohnhai
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Message 14 of 53 (184366)
02-10-2005 8:23 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by my_allegory
02-09-2005 1:18 PM


Read, talk, and learn
Sounds like an excellent time for you to go and learn about other faiths religions and their view points. Now’s the time to buy books or go to library, talk to others of differing faiths, even us Atheists and actually understand the nature of this game of faith.
In time you will either re-affirm your faith in LDS, find another belief system you can believe in or even come to an Atheist understanding. Most of us have been raised in one faith or another from childhood and been taught this is THE TRUTH and this shapes us and our views and thoughts. Most of us will eventually question these assertions and these facts, and that’s when you need to do some good honest reading and learning to ascertain the truth of these claims for your self. It’s not an easy journey and you must have the courage to realise it could lead you anywhere. It could lead you back to LDS , to Islam, Catholic Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto or even a realisation there isn’t a god/s and so on.
The long and short of it is that it’s you that must make this journey. Only you can learn what your personal truth is. Sure listen to others, read books, watch TV, but think and learn, make up your own mind as to the truth.
One last thing. When it comes to the views of others, be it spoken or written down, you must take into account whose views they are and why they are saying them. Read book from all commentators, from all views. You will get wildly contradicting ideas and assertions but hopefully from all of this you should in time be able to clarify what you believe.
Just don’t expect a quick fix.

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