This document summarizes one person's experience doubting their religious beliefs and struggling to reconcile science and religion. They began questioning things like who created God and where humans came from. When they discussed it with friends, they were told it was useless to think about and could wait until after exams. Later, they realized they were going in circles in their thinking. While they didn't want to separate from the comfort religion provided, they spent three months questioning and doubting before deciding to just believe again without fully resolving their questions.
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la fois ou j'ai douté de l'existence de Dieu
This document summarizes one person's experience doubting their religious beliefs and struggling to reconcile science and religion. They began questioning things like who created God and where humans came from. When they discussed it with friends, they were told it was useless to think about and could wait until after exams. Later, they realized they were going in circles in their thinking. While they didn't want to separate from the comfort religion provided, they spent three months questioning and doubting before deciding to just believe again without fully resolving their questions.
This document summarizes one person's experience doubting their religious beliefs and struggling to reconcile science and religion. They began questioning things like who created God and where humans came from. When they discussed it with friends, they were told it was useless to think about and could wait until after exams. Later, they realized they were going in circles in their thinking. While they didn't want to separate from the comfort religion provided, they spent three months questioning and doubting before deciding to just believe again without fully resolving their questions.
Sometimes, things you believe in become just so blurry that when you think about
them, you start to doubt.
This was my case when I began to doubt the existence of a supreme
being who is God. I know it's a kind of blasphemy against the authority of God but I wanted to know, fault of philosophy. Indeed, as a scientist, I often confront science with religion, which often leads me to certain reflections such as: who is God? Where is he from? Who created him? And at the same time, I was wondering where did the human race come from? Dust like in the Bible? Or did humans just appear strangely on earth? I tried to talk a little about it with my close friends and they replied that it was useless to think about it, especially since we are still at school and preparing for our final exams. Obviously I was not satisfied, I was even more stubborn and I searched again and again. I realized later that I was going in circles and my friends teased me about it. So I gave up. I am from a religious family and I don't have many people I can talk to about it. I know if I talked about it with my family, they had think I had gone crazy… I have imagined them thinking "maybe she's possessed" and worrying for nothing. After a while, I realized that I was getting a bit lost in my thinking. I have always loved religion and all that it implies, how it manages to appease us when we need it and I would not like to separate myself from this feeling of benefactor. That is the real reason why I gave up my idea of knowing who God is after at least three months of questioning and decided to just believe it, as before.