I was raised by two Christian parents and exposed to the faith at a very young age. It did not take long for me to also take it in as a part of my identity. I wanted to please my parents at the time but it also made sense to me.

The existence of God, specifically the God of Christianity, provided an immediate explanation for my continuous survival. I was supposed to die around two years old but didn’t. Didn’t that speak to divine intervention? I felt love from an ultimate protector. Over and over again I faced challenges that could and should have killed me. Every time I pulled through. It makes me feel special in some way. Like I have a purpose in life that I have not fulfilled yet.

Just in case you are worried about me suffering from main character syndrome, that is not the only reason.

I find the idea that everything spawned from nothing to be even more farfetched than the idea of there being a grand creator. The law of entropy in particular goes against the existence of life. In any given system entropy causes the the same level of order or increasing disorder. Creation of life would in my opinion call for increasingly higher levels of order that would go against natural law.

Why Christianity in particular? The main and biggest reason is it is the only religion that preaches love and true acceptance from a non humanized God. This is where I have to be careful of what I say. Let’s take the Greek mythos as an example since I don’t believe people still practice it seriously. The gods of Greek mythology are more or less people who are immortal and have super powers. They lie, murder, cheat and error. This doesn’t portray the level of being expected to be able to create man and the world. A creator of a world as intricate as ours would be expected to be held to a higher standard of character. A type of character humans could not fully understand.

Before I trigger anyone with a bad history with religion or Christianity, know that I don’t believe in being judgmental of others. What anyone else practices or believes is a personal matter and none of my business. We are all expected to accept others no matter what and I adhere to that. My soul is my own and my own only to decide the fate of. Christianity brings me great comfort and that’s all that is important.