It seems like a lot of people out there have lost their faith. If you are one, why?

Answer 1

I have faith in a higher being...I do not have the authority to say it is God, Buddha, Krishna, or any other. I have lost faith in Christianity because at least in the US, Christians are always trying to shove their religion in everyone else's face, especially when not everyone wants that. Christians are always right (or so they think). They tend to judge, judge, judge, and preach, preach, preach, yet in the Bible, it says "Judge not for ye who will be judged." I lost my faith in Christianity overall because there are too many hypocrits and they always try to make others (unlike them) feel inferior...THAT is not being the "good Christian" that they so claim to be. And lastly, I am sick of people using their "faith" to express why something is wrong...like the idea that they are seeking to ban gay marriage in the "name of God." I'm sorry, but that's just bulls***. If it were not normal/natural to be gay, then God or whomever, would not have created homosexuals or any other type of "abnormal people" that these Christians try to ridicule and attack.

Answer 2

I have technically not LOST my faith, because I have never HAD it to begin with. So, talking about "my" faith would be just as illogical as talking about "my" million dollars, ha, ha.

Anyway, I don't have any faith because I don't need to. When I think of religions, all I see is the manipulation and brainwashing attached. Religions are political entities looking for power at the expense of people's credibility. And I hate them for that. I know I could be a simple religious person, without any relation with a church, but even for that, I'd have to give up things in my life (time, to begin with) on the promise of an afterlife, that I cannot believe in. I'm a rational person. I won't go anywhere unless there's reasonable proof that that exists.

Answer 3

I won't lie, this is something that I have struggled with. It has been hard to reconcile free will, the all powerful, and why he just sits back and watches it unfold. There have been times that I have felt that perhaps I should not follow "someone" that has the power to erase all suffering, yet does not do so.

I come back to the fact that he knows more than I do, and all of this must have a purpose in the grand scheme of things.

Part of my evolution of faith is to begin to see that we were created by Divine Design, then the laws of nature were put into effect and all else that happens is just cause and effect. If there are "wrongs" in this world...then if I am not part of the solution, I am part of the problem....so that "loss of faith" has also made me look inside for my own divine design and use it to the betterment of the world around me.

Or at least I try.

Answer 4

I cant say I have totally lost My faith. I know what I believe and that is strong. Im secure in that. But I can say for a while I did.
There are so many churches out there that have people in them that specialize in judging someone. Ones that may not have as much money, or one that doesnt fit into a certian click.
Church people can be more mean than the rest of the world. Somehow they think its right to be able to judge someone because they think they are high and mighty because they have God, and what the real matter is they are humans just like Me. They get hurt the same as I.
I have been in church all My life. My dad is a pastor. I have seen it all. Few churches really have what it needs. The church is about God, not about whom your going to go see, or meeting for coffee afterwords. Its not even about going to see if the Jones are keeping up with you. Or you them. Heh. I wish I could say differant about the church. I wish I could see it differant but after being shunned by one of the biggest churches in My town for having problems. I tend to be a bit sensitive. I see too much happening in churches that goes behind the scenes that just arent seen by alot of people.
Thats not to say that all churches are like that. Im sure they arent alllll like that. We are afterall humans. We do make mistakes. The only one that is perfect is God. If the people in the churches would remember that, I think it would be better.

Answer 5

What little faith I had, I lost between August 29 and September 4, 2005.

Answer 6

Because our all powerful God is a crappy penpal. I haven't lost my faith entirely, but definitely the joy. We are told to constantly talk to this guy who refuses to speak back, except by portents and omens. Some people tell me that maybe I'm just not listening- but why wouldn't an all powerful diety be able to make himself heard if he's got something to say? It's frustrating to be in a one-sided relationship, even with a creator.

Answer 7

I never had "faith" to begin with, if you mean faith in any organized religion. I am a spiritual person, but not a religious one if that makes sense. I have never felt the lack in my life and feel freer and happier for it.
I've always liked to think there is a supreme being. But it is certainly above the pettiness, judgement and hatefulness that human-invented religions seem to create. Basically, I can't think of a single organized religion that hasn't failed its followers.

Answer 8

God IS real I have seen him in a near death experence but religon is the one I suspect.
no man on earth knows if the bible is accurate or even the true word of god.
Its written by a mix of people and some books are added and some books were removed to suit the politics of the day and the popes agenda.
Which brings me to the vatican, The church is the worlds first franchise product salvation which they have no control over you do.
the churches are the stores that promse you salvation and then take your money every sunday and 10 % to boot.
Yea their convincing theve had 1500 years to perfect their scam.
The root of all evil is love of money!
if god wanted to give us his true word moses would have come down from the mountain with a bible written in gods hand He gave us the 10 commandments and by the way where is this ark?
We have never seen the to commandments either !

Answer 9

I spent a lot of time studying religions and I saw how people have made things up as they've gone along in every religion. I honestly just didn't want to follow along with the falseness of it all. I am happy just believing in a creator. After seeing the continuing fall of humanity decade after decade, faith is something I just don't have.

Answer 10

Faith is the easiest component of the human psyche to lose. Especially when we are besieged with dogma from every quarter. Faith is the glue that connects us. Being faithful to a cause, a lover, or a belief, are based on our beliefs of truth. Shake that belief and away goes faith. Faith should be the one factor that resists incursions by dogma, but we are creating generations with smaller and smaller reservoirs of faith.

Answer 11

I don't know for sure if I lost my faith or not. It sure felt like I had, and my reasonings were because I let myself be mentally, physically and sexually abused by someone that promised before God and my family to love, honor and cherish me. I know it's my fault, but since I believed and trusted him almost complicitly when he told me that he believed God wanted for us to marry I almost blamed God when it all went so so so wrong. Even when it was good it wasn't normal, and hindsight is now 20/20 but along in there when I realized I didn't have faith, I realized it all came down to me. I gave him the faith that I should have vested in God and my own truth. So therefore who I didn't have faith in wasn't God but it was myself.
I lost faith in myself.
I'm getting that back, bit by bit. And hopefully I will be ready for a real, healthy relationship soon, because honestly, I got married because I love sex and companionship, and God knows I miss that enormously.