Re: girls and adolt women
Kamochek, I don't wish to offend you, but what I am about to say is sincerely meant. One issue I take with religion is the belief that you can just simply pray and God will step in and make everything alright such as open your eyes or make your father change his mind about religion. For many reasons I can't help but think your faith or hopes in this regard are unrealistic.
To begin with most people believe in the concept of free will. As in the idea that God has given people the right to believe or disbelieve as he or she so chooses, and if you pray for God to change your father's mind on religious views isn't that going against his right to free will?
Another one is the concept of God's master plan. Many people I have talked to believe God has some ultimate plan for them and that all the hardships and problems we have such as having a physical disability like being blind is all apart of that master plan. If true isn't asking God to open y our eyes, to heal you, and give you sight equivalent to telling God you want him to change his master plan in that regard?
What I am getting at is even assuming God is real, which I am not claiming he is, it seems like there are reasons for him not to grant your requests. You can pray if you want to, but it strikes me that prayer generally does not work for people who believe in it, and they have various reasons to explain why this or that did not happen. Making the very act of prayer a bit unrealistic from the outset. Of course, I openly state I have a bit of a grievance with God over that very issue.
Back when I was a young teen, not much younger than you, I lost my sight. At the time I was a Christian, I whole-heartedly believed in the power of prayer, and I spent hours praying and praying for God to heal me. Of course, nothing happened. I am just as blind today as I was back then. I started inquiring with other Christian friends, with ministers, and they all pretty much gave me the reasoning that it was not in God's master plan and what I wanted must not be in his will for some reason. In other words no matter how much I prayed, pleaded, asked I was just wasting my time and effort praying for something that would never happen. that is when I began to loose faith, and it set me on the path to being the atheist I am today.
A few years ago I began reading books like the God Delusion, God is Not Great, The End of Faith, and other books written by atheists and I accepted the fact there was no God. Once I did I actually felt much better for it. I no longer felt angry over God not healing me because I understood all that time spent on my knees praying for a miracle was in vain. That I had been wasting my time and energy talking to a being who only existed in my imagination, and since he never existed it was no wonder that none of my prayers were coming true. I managed to take back a measure of self-respect, self-confidence, and realized that if I wanted anything in life I had to do it myself. I could not sit back and expect God or some other imaginary being to just answer my prayers.
The point of this long winded ramble is simply this. You can pray if you want to. You can believe as you want to. However, don't expect for things to change, because in my experience they won't. Try to set your heart and mind on actually achievable goals like making good grades, finding a few good friends, etc rather than hoping for you to wake up with sight or that your dad will suddenly change his mind. If he does that will be great, but if not realize that it is his choice to make and you can not force him into it.
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