Lack of faith - NOT amateur radio

Our local church is now very "happy clappy". My wife got me to go today as it is Easter Sunday.

Although I used to be a regular attender at our church, these days I hardly ever go. In some ways I feel more spiritual, but I now feel no religion "cuts it".

This last 12 months has seen the death of two young sons of friends in very sad circumstances. Life seems cruel.

In many ways I envy the simple faith of many, but I am finding it harder and harder to feel that I fit in. To me, all religions fail to provide me the answers I need.

As I have said many times before, I feel all religions hint at a deeper truth and are, maybe, attempts to come to terms with our finality.

Faith or lack of it - NOT amateur radio

Rational thinking tells me "this is it" and all religions are just Man's attempt to come to terms with a finite existence. There are many religions in the world and their adherents are often firm believers in their particular faith. All the recent evidence in my life says we are not born for an eternal life. Before we were born we knew nothing. Were we happy? Arguably, yes, as we were unaware of anything.

And yet....

Perhaps all religions hint at something. Maybe there is more? The only certainty seems to be that we all die and not one of us really knows what then happens. Does our consciousness somehow live on? Who knows.  What underlying thing sets our moral compass? What makes us follow certain paths and tells us what is right and what is wrong? If this is all there is why do we not follow a path of pleasure for ourselves at the expense of others?