(May 1, 2020 at 12:37 am)cleansed Wrote: A lot of people begin the journey to seek God out because they can't reconcile their thoughts and feelings with their experiences in this world, and conclude that there has to be more to this life than what the world is offering. That there has to be an overriding meaning to explain what cries out in the depths of their soul. I think that is often a cry for justice, and a cry for meaning beyond the grave.
Cry for justice turns you into believing in an unjust God.
But to me it seems what you are trying to describe why you believe in God, rather comes from reasons that come to a category of people who are bored in life, have monotonous jobs or can't deal with problems in life and start believing in fantasy like bigfoot or aliens or God and angels or goblins - so that they can spice up their life or pacify themselves by believing in abstract and incomprehensible things.
One of best examples is this Muslims exorcist who had a very boring life and job as a copy machine operator, so one day he decided to exorcise jinns from people, and, all of a sudden, his life got more interesting because people are flocking to him seeking an advice, he suddenly feels useful to society.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
