Been around the block a few times now at age 44. Reasonably happy marriage, three kids, very successful business, great friends, lift, run and do BJJ. Was raised and educated in the Catholic Tradition. Still wear a cross around my neck everyday.

Reason for writing is I got to a point 20 years ago where I could finally see alternate points of reason, evidence, science etc that made me question what I had been told and believed. The long and short of it is, while I would love to believe there is a heaven, and a benevolent God looking out for me, I am hard pressed to accept that a 2-3k year old book has all the answers. Especially when many parts of it are clearly nonsense. Coupled with that fact that one's religion seems to be greatly determined by where and when we are born.

Seems a bit far fetched that this is the way it works... thousands of different gods over the years all claiming to be legit with fervent believers. Anyway, I hope I'm not scaring away anyone else's faith but believe me this is an earnest post. I would love to hear how you maintain faith in light of some of these challenges.