What happened to you that turned you to faith?
I've noticed that a sudden turn to religiosity occurs shortly after something really ****** up happens to a person. It's almost always something deeply psychologically scarring either due to an emotional episode (sometimes the emotional episode is triggered by a physical episode).
It's just a way of coping for some. Religion's greatest appeal is that it provides comfort for it's adherent in the sense of do A, B, and C and you will receive X, Y, Z. When in reality, life is nothing of the sort. Variance plays such a large role in our world that there are no set formulas. And that's what scares many people.
My most favorite quote is by Hugh Hendry. He said:
'God is dead, life is absurd and there are no rules".
Humans are always trying to make sense of the world because it seemingly makes no sense at all. Due to our intelligence, we believe in rationality but the world is almost never rational in anyone's lifetime (mayve over a long enough time horizon it is oddly rational).
Look at everything around you. So many things make no ******g sense. The young die, the old live. The good are poor, the bad are wealthy. Some are born healthy while others are born sick. Someone throwing a ball into a basket gets millions while someone feeding the hungry volunteers their time. Etc, etc, etc.
Religion attempts to provide some rationality to the world but in the end it's just more irrationality created by humans. It tries to make sense of something that does not make sense. It provides a simplistic explanation for something that is so immeasurably complex that one can only claim that it must be a farce.
We humans are a sick species. The same genetics which makes are intelligent and concious of our own existence, also makes us behave the way that we do. The same genetics that exhibit love, happiness, friendship, altruism, etc. also create hate, jealousy, greed, selfishness, fear, etc.
The idea of a God is an easy way out in terms of humans not taking responsibility for controlling themselves. What we may be afraid of in the end, is that we subconsciously realize that our species is destructive. It's easier to be bad/do wrong then to be good/do right.
Maybe history doesn't repeat itself. It may be that the human species is built on irrationality.
Plenty good tales so they can get the moral of the story.
