[VinceZeb]

Why do I believe in God is the question you meant to ask. There is no "Christian" God, as you "smart" people like to snidely point out. It is GOD. Period. One of em. No more, no less.

Why do I believe in God, and his son the Savior and Redeemer of Mankind? Very good question. A simple answer would be to say that I am not naive or cocky enough to believe that the human being is the greatest creation in the universe.

Now, a complex answer:

I was raised Catholic. Went to Catholic school, all that good stuff. Two days before my 18th birthday and 9 days before HS graduation ceremony, my father passed away. Needless to say that I was crushed beyond belief. I spent the summer moping and questioning EVERYTHING I had been taught. I went off to college and came back for Christmas. Visited friends, noticed a lot of them had become druggies and losers. Couple had turned atheists and could never really explain why. 3 months later my grandfather died and 2 after that my grandmother died. After all this in this short period of time, I washed my hands of God. Did not believe in anything, and accepted the fact one night that I would die. It scared the shit out of me. Used to lie in bed every night and think about what it would be like to die. That I would not see my family and friends again. That what we do here is meaningless and not worth the effort. Never thought of suicide, but just thought that life was one big rat race with no trophy at the end. Just a dirt hole.

After some time, I began to see the world around me. I noticed little things that started to instill me back with a faith... maybe not in God, but in something. I began to research different faiths and never could put my hand on anything solid, because the holes were just too damn big. Finally I looked at what I have always been a part of: Christianity and mainly Roman Catholicism. I studied up again on many of the reasons why I loved my faith in the first place, and put my scientific reasoning into place to see if history validated my beliefs. I found through months of research that history validates Judeo-Christian belief and thought and history more so than any other religion on the planet. So, God called me back to His Church. I came back. My life has been better than ever.

I am confident in my faith because I am 100% sure that there is Good and there is Evil. I believe in Lucifer. I've seen and felt the presence of him in the world around me. Evil does exist to me, it is not some abstract concept that we should throw away so we can evolve to something more pure. People who throw away the concept of evil are people that are easily subdued by it. They do not think, so they are caught up in it and die. I believe that America is the best country that God allowed mortal men to build, because it evokes the free will God allowed us to have. We can do what we want, but there are consequences to our actions. Micro-evolution is real, Macro-evolution is complete and utter bullshit that takes more faith to believe in than Scientology. Science and religion have no reason to be mutually exclusive, but science needs to learn that it can not explain everything that happens. It cannot explain emotions. It cannot, try as it may, explain love.

The power of the soul is truly something that should be admired. I believe there are things to fight for. I believe in stopping evil where it may arrive. If it costs me, so be it. The true heroes are remembered. They face danger without fear. That is truly admirable.

I am just rambling on now. But I could go on forever why I believe in what I do. I question everyday. But I am not stupid enough to question to the point where I do not believe in anything.

edit: Had to edit the sentence I hurried to finish. Whoops.