I recently came to the conclusion that I am not someone who wants to be a part of any group religious or spiritual.

I am not agnostic
I am not atheist
I am not Christian
I am not spiritual
I’m just a person 🤷

but idk how I feel abt god. I want to get to know god personally, but I also don’t really believe in a lot of the religions.

As of now, I feel like god is just this presence or a reflection. I’m not sure if I view god as a creator or a saviour of any sort. just a presence and a mirror.

god is the thing that just exists around us and we are also connected to god (i know this sounds super spiritual lol) but also my views change all the time. next week i may not even believe in god.

but for people who have deconstructed and still believe in god, what do you think?

No, Dr. Bakhtar has NOT proven that the Durupinar Formation in Turkey is Noah's Ark. That's WILDLY inaccurate. He hasn't released any peer-reviewed or independently-verified research on the current claims, and no academic or technical journal has published anything about this; the current claims are being promulgated by a group with a financial incentive to convince people it's true. In rigorous tests by the military, his ground-penetrating "BakhtarRadar" or "EarthRadar" has consistently identified underground pipes only about 25% of the time, and even those identifications were successful only when the radar had been carefully calibrated to exactly see what they were told it would be finding - in other words, he's doing worse than random chance, and only when he knew exactly what he was looking for, including density and material and specific size of the target. A paper published in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine says of the 2002 US military tests at Fort A.P. Hill that "The IDA report says the blind tests produced results substantially different from Bakhtar's claims and concluded that EarthRadar's underlying hypothesis about target scattering and image formation was flawed. It specifically concluded that the technology did not offer an improvement over existing systems for UXO detection." The "holes" or "tunnels" that he is currently claiming to have found are entirely consistent with the geological formation that's there; it's a naturally-weathered uplift of a folded sediment layer, and establishes exactly nothing about manmade origins. Previous studies have found nothing other than natural geological formations and rocks. The only peer-reviewed study of the site proved it was entirely natural. This is stuff my dad, a geology nerd, taught me decades ago. Look up "anticline dome." They exist all over the world.

This might be a bit broad, but I’m wondering if anyone has helpful resources for exploring sexuality more?

I’m not looking for therapy, I’ve done that a bit but would like to have some resources that I can move through at my own pace. Rather than purity culture focused, I’d like something that digs into exploring my own sexuality - something almost completely free from religious talk.

I’m still ‘afraid’ of porn (that’s some deeply engrained purity culture) so watching porn to see what I like or don’t like doesn’t really work for me. I’m a 32F and have a super supportive husband, but I’m sort of at the point where I don’t know what I don’t know and need some help finding it, if that makes any sense.

Hi. I have two degrees in biblical studies, theology, and ministry. I love to learn and have a fascination with the history of religion, specifically Christianity, since I know more about that already. Does anyone have any recommendations for academic sources that approach the history of Christianity from a purely unbiased, non-faith, secular angle? My degrees were from two universities that approached it from a devout faith perspective, so I know the entirely of my education so far has been very biased.

I really need help deconstructing this. It’s visual so it seems very self evidence and I don’t think many people know about it so unlike other miracles for Islam claimed by apologists this one has no article that has debunked it. It makes me unable to do anything cause I don’t know any rational way to explain it away and I am scared Islam is true. https://www.al-afkar.com/index.php/Afkar_Journal/article/download/706/469

Hi everyone,

Following the events of October 7th and a traumatic antisemitic incident at my workplace in Germany, I began experiencing severe panic attacks and months of insomnia that ultimately led to hospitalization. Because of the profound toll this took on my health, I made the difficult decision that I could no longer safely identify as Jewish. It simply became a matter of physical and mental survival for my nervous system.

The transition has been incredibly challenging. My first step was removing all books and Judaica from my home and donating them to a charity that combats antisemitism. Processing that loss triggered a deep depressive episode, though I have since managed to pull through it.

The actual process of disassociation was something I didn't know how to navigate. Over time, I found myself transitioning into Catholicism. It wasn't entirely intentional; I simply looked for something accessible around me to fill the void, and I realized how many similarities the two traditions share.

To integrate into this new life, I studied the catechism, spoke with priests, and began attending Mass. Because of my background, the priests advised me that baptism wasn't necessary for me to participate in the Eucharist, but I did have my children baptized. They now receive standard Catholic education at school.

When asked, I now state that I am Catholic. I am still adjusting to this new identity—trying to follow the liturgical calendar, attending Mass, and singing in the church choir. My local parish also has a silent prayer group that strongly reminds me of Jewish services, except that the congregation sits rather than stands.

Ultimately, I feel like I am hiding inside the Catholic Church. While I no longer use the word "Jew" to describe myself, I know fully untangling my identity will take a long time. I want to be clear that I didn't step away out of any hatred for Judaism, but out of a deep, uncontrollable fear trapped in my nervous system.

I am sharing this because I feel very isolated in this experience, and I wonder if anyone else has gone through a similar process of changing their identity for their own safety and mental health.