Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.

[Kayenneh]

I feel (personal opinion) as if believing in God is harder than believing in science, (for a true believer) because you have to abstain from so many things purely because of your faith

And that's the gist of it. For instance, if you are a muslim or a jew, you are not allowed to eat pork. Why? Well, according to the religions, the pig is not a clean animal. That is actually wrong, pigs are actually quite tidy. The problem lies with a lovely little parasitic roundworm called Trichinella spiralis, which pigs sometimes carry. If you don't cook pork right, you can get infected. Thanks to science, we know that cooking pork for seven minutes in at least 70oC will kill them off and the meat is safe to eat.

So ask yourself, why do you need to abstain from certain things due to your faith? Is there any explanation, other than 'just because it's said to be so'? If you don't find a viable reason, why follow it?

in hopes of having a life worth living after this world.

And another point I like to make. I see the probability of an afterlife highly improbable. The only thing we are certain of is that we live here and now. For all you know, you have only one life, so make it count.

To me it's worth it, coinciding with the modern ideal of "do it if it feels right."

And that's what people do (I hope), regardless of their creed. I just want to point out that nothing you can/are allowed to do should be out question, as long as you don't intentionally (and maybe give it a thought that your actions go further and affect more people than you realize) hurt anyone.

What you believe and how you give meaning to your life is up to you, that's your right that no one can take away, but my two cents is that you at least ask yourself the question "Why?" from time to time.