I REALLY want to know... but I NEVER found someone to explain me, ton convince me... I should be happy to believe but, actually, I can't...
Pple who believe...please give me ONE reason and I will convert into your religion, I promise....
I m not moking...
Sure, I can give you a reason. There are lots of reasons, and everyone is different so maybe everyone has different reasons that motivate them. But I'll give you one good one that you can think about. Even though I risk downvotes and ridicule -- because I actually find non-believers more militant in their belief than most religious people.
You obviously have a curious mind, and a critical one, so this is good. It's necessary for any true faith. We should understand that something as culturally and historically rich as faith cannot be just swiped away by a comedian with 10 minutes of air time. This a phenomenon common to all cultures for countless thousands of years and is ingrained into the human psyche. A few clever jokes isn't going to prove anything --just like this internet post isn't going to prove anything. You can't prove it, one way or the other. It's impossible. Something like the "spiritual" realm that exists outside of space and time also exists outside of the human senses and beyond the reach of tools like logic -- though our senses and logic can still help us here.
This post is getting long already, and I haven't even given the reason yet! I had to do an introduction, since something like faith/spirituality is so rich and has such a history you can't deal with it using a TL;DR or a flippant joke if you want to seriously consider the possibility of it being legit. If there is even a tiny
possibility of it God real, the
tiniest chance that we have a soul that lives forever after we die, then it is literally more important than life and death and we should treat is seriously and respectfully. Anyone who says there is absolutely no chance that God or religion is real has to re-check their sample size -- because they haven't thought out their position thoroughly and there isn't enough evidence available to say that. That's why I have respect for agnostics but little patience for true atheists.
So this is the reason: You will die. We all will. There is no avoiding it. Atheists tend to be (but are not always) young people with little thought towards the end of their life -- and this is normal. But it is good to come to terms with our mortality and the consequences of it early and often. When you die, and there is the smallest chance that God has been trying to get you to get to know Him and you've completely ignored him -- you may not be in a good place. However, if you choose to believe during this life and
then you die and it turns out you were wrong -- there are no consequences and you'll just rot in the ground. You have everything to gain and literally nothing to lose. This is a common reasoning given during such discussions, and I do not expect you or anyone else to magically believe because of this, but it's a start. There is little harm in believing, but the potential benefit is unlimited. It can also have benefits in this life while you're still around.
There are lots of other reasons -- and lots of better reasons to be honest, but maybe this will get you or some other people thinking about the last things when all else passes away. Good luck to you!
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