I was born and raised in a Pentecostal church and have heard people “speak in tounges” and “prophecy” my whole short life. Speaking in tounges in my opinions is just gibberish and anybody can do it while propheycing is not someone actually saying a prophecy but a person saying out loud what God had spoken to them. It is sometimes a promise like God would send healing to someone in the place, or that God is in this place and will send the holy spirit down. I for the longest time have been adamant on the point that God was speaking to them during the meeting but now just believe they convince themselves it’s God when it’s just themselves.
The first reason why I don’t believe in religion anymore is when I learned that different races have vastly different iqs and athletic abilities. Thus indicating that they are at different stages of some type of evolution. Why would god make some peoples less human and others more, if religion is a human concept which needs human thought and clarity to follow. It makes literally zero sense.
Another reason is that some people are born as inherently non religious. Psychopaths are literally hardwired to be evil while others are literally born without the cognitive abilities to understand anything about religion.
Another reason is that religions influences on the world is insignificantly small. The Jewish god literally started out as a tribal war god who claimed that his people would be an example to all the world. Even if the Israelites were able to conquer the whole western world. Millions of people still wouldn’t have even heard about heard or even cared about the Hebrew God. Christianity has also been around for 2,000 years and millions still haven’t heard about it. It wasn’t even close to being the worlds biggest religion for many of those years. Meanwhile the god up there has also let religions such as Islam which deny claims central to Christianity to gain at times even more followers than Christianity. Why would God allow religions which literally claim the central points of Christianity to be false to become that widespread? It literally makes zero sense.
I sometime ago read on here about how an Italian translator interpreted the Bible saying that humans were a creation of life from an alien species which lived for 1000s of years. Some of these aliens led different people groups and became known as Gods. I honestly believe this theory because it makes sense how the localized actions of the Israelites were driven by an alien and not an omnipresent God. If anybody can link me to articles about this theory, please do.
I know that God gave the instructions on how to build the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant when Moses was on Mount Sinai. He went there and literally talked to God like he was a person. It was all man made, but the ark of covenant had technology inside that the Israelites thought was divine but instead alien.
I have read the bible my friend, and am knowledgeable about many of its aspects.
My friend I raised genuine points about the locality and insignificance on a global scale of the so called "omnipotent" and "omniscient" Gods religion, amongst brining up another host of other issues I find with how the world's as it is ordered not being compatible with the all powerful God the bible claims existing.
The glory of god rested on the ark, whatever about that glory which killed people was alien technology.
My friend, everybody in my church I see are hypocrites (including me). All the young adults my age just spout sexual jokes all the time, don't care about the meetings, and get worked over the smallest things. I also have to go dress in a suit and be on time church to worship a God who only cares about "inner disposition". The thing that first led me to really question my faith was that environment of hypocrisy. You're right, i kind of have isolated myself from the people at church and also started questioning my belief in God. Now I just focused on my friends at my university and don't play pretend at church. I still follow Christian morals though and believe they are the principles i need to keep to live a good and successful life.
Thank you for responding my friend. I shall keep your words in my mind.