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19183082 No.19183082 [Reply] [Original]

What authors have talked about the dilemma of wanting to believe in God or seeing God as necessary but being unable to believe in him or unable to stop your skepticism? I've seen this topic in twilight of the idols and iirc Kirillov in Demons.

>> No.19183142

>>19183082
Cioran mentions it in interviews and Tears and Saints is about it, though I haven't read it. He says he was born without the ability to believe

>> No.19183265

>>19183082
This is me, badly need this. I see God as something necessary but cold and rational like mathematical principles and logic. It makes life make sense but it's not something you can live and die for.

>> No.19183427

Are you seriously trying to find faith without faith?

>> No.19183482

>>19183427
I don't know what I'm doing but I'd like to read about this problem.

>> No.19183581

bump

>> No.19183614

>>19183265
I urge you to begin a practice of prayer, anon. I used to be an atheist, and was gradually convinced by the intellectual arguments for God’s existence. However this was still a cold, rational understanding. I didn’t feel like God was there. So I began to pray every night. It felt silly at first, but I began to get into it, and it brought me much peace. I have had signs from God too. They are unmistakable when they come, and I knew from those moments onward that God really does exist, and that he is present with every one of us at every moment, and is a being of boundless love.

>> No.19183624

you need to suffer

>> No.19183645

>>19183265
Religion instills morals into children. It's necesseary for a functioning society, like traffic signals and sanitation department. >>19183482
Yeah, me too.

>> No.19183702

>>19183614
>I have had signs from God too
I'd just assume I was going schizo at that point

>> No.19183706

bump

>> No.19183713

>>19183702
It’s not that one doesn’t even doubt these experiences—I sure did at first, but I could not find a rational explanation for what I experienced. Also, the vast majority of humans were ‘mentally-ill’ by the standards of modern-day materialists and psychologists, suffering from ‘magical thinking’, ‘superstition’, etc. Just stop caring what materialist bugmen say.