re: How many thousands of years until current believers give up?

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this is exactly why i struggle with religion. so its been here for 6 billion years, yet im told to follow a man who came here just 2000 years ago? do you know how many thousand of prophets were before Jesus?

im a christian and go to churn and do my duty, however it does bother me. i think society is desperate for "something" to believe in to reassure ourselves that this whole life is not for nothing.

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This is exactly where I was. And then I made a decision that I'd ask myself some questions that previously were off the table. And more importantly, I would let myself not feel guilty if my answers to those questions started painting a picture that the Christian God I had built my life around wasn't real.

In retrospect, looking back, that was the moment I was free.