Why I Identify as Agnostic
Growing up in the Christian faith I’ve always felt conflicted, as so many do. Trying to wrap my head around a faith and a God that felt detached from the real, everyday world we live in. Trying to hang on to my salvation while wondering if I ever really had it. Wondering if I had enough “faith” to be saved. Feeling as though I was unworthy - guilty for being human and born in the free world. Never penitent enough. Never worshipful enough of a God I’ve never met. Trying to reconcile all the questions swirling in the back of my mind. Finally, I’ve reached a point this last decade or so where I’m comfortable with no longer labeling myself as a Christian, because I suppose I’m not. I fall firmly into the camp of religious agnosticism. I still lapse into some of the old habits. I still have doubts one way or another. But as a human being with a functional mind capable of critical thinking, I can’t keep running in ...