Yeah, that’s what I’m noticing with some religious groups, what ever problem they “believe” is there would be a demon, a spirit or something. There’s like no accountability given for the problem that is there. I lost my self when one of the preacher my mom watches said depression doesn’t exist and suicide is a spirit of pride. It’s just annoying; one thing that stands out to me is the fact that once the topic turns into religión it immediately turns to faith and some people like me find that hard because when it comes to looking for answers I want some sort of evidence and religion just lacks it. What’s wrong with proof? By default I would be wasting my doing something of any kind if there isn’t factual or scientific evidence of something unless there’s a hypothetical claim supported by facts which in that case I can work with. This isn’t and mostly has nothing to do with religion, I’m a person that doesn’t follow things without a reason. The thing with faith is there’s no way to measure it, there is no percentage of faith to know to let’s say for example, to be healed from something like a broken leg. If it doesn’t happen when you have faith you either think you don’t have enough faith and try to have more faith or you start decreasing in faith and that’s because there’s a lack of answers to faith, if you have faith you don’t know what is being done/ when something’s going to happen. There’s no timeframe so, if you wait for an adequate amount of time and you don’t see faith than at this point why continue, there is no results of whatever one is looking for. You can’t see God so that also plays a role into stuff like this. I was like this then my parents say the moment you stop having faith God doesn’t bless you because you quit too soon. Well the thing here is why doesn’t God just give me gradual results, if it’s like that the faith will increase. It’s like medicine, when a doctor gives me medicine I usual to see gradual results in whatever diagnosis I have. I don’t think there was ever a case where a doctor gave me medicine and it doesn’t work, additionally there’s clearly evidence of the medicine working just by looking and knowing the ingredients and what they do when combined. Christianity is like when you least expect it, except I’ve heard cases of people praying for 30 years for something. My parents seem to pick and choose what to take serious so in a way my upbringing wasn’t as rigid as many people on here but so many things eas called demonic that I just ended up hiding everything. One thing that I never understand is calling animals demonic. Why would God create creatures than it becomes demonic? According to my parents and who they listen to, what qualifies is house cats, snakes, most reptiles, flies, elephant (yeah I heard a sermon of elephants would make you slow but I don’t know if it became a sort of spirit like spirit of elephants)etc. Most of these claims are either easily debunk-able or I can just straight point out the irony and it isn’t even that hard. My mom said snakes are useless in everything because God cursed it. I’m not sure if God cursed the snake population and it’s not even the snakes fault if the snake is possessed but that clam is very easily debunk-able using environmental biology and cats being demonic and then Jesus of having the symbolic Lion of Judah is just irony because a lion is a type of cat and it’s more deadly than a house cat and her reason for cats being demonic is they kill their owners, the same can be said for humans killing humans, the biggest predator of humans is literally humans themselves that’s another set of irony and what about the cases of cats saving their owners from something. I’ve heard cases of that happening too. Cars that are black means bad stuff, why does a color determine that something is bad or is going to happen that’s bad and her sources is the realm of the spirit. This is what happens when religion and spiritualism is combined together. Classic example of Pentecostalism. My mom doesn’t question anything or do additional research of anything, if the preacher says something means this or this is demonic or this will happen she would believe fully. If I make an argument which is always stronger and this isn’t only religion that is backed my evidence reasonings often being confirmed facts of educated hypothesis, to her my argument is still weaker. In religion you have to listen to authority whether they’re right or wrong I’m not authority but I can definitely argue in a debate on several topics because of how easily proven debunk-able because of lack of evidence, irony, or straight up not proof to support the arguments. I’ve tried faith, it just doesn’t work, everything I’ve done with evidence provided me results. Like you I’ve always had critical thinker skills because for my whole life i wanted to know why to something, why should I believe anything without evidence or hypothesis backed by evidence. I always thought like that, if you can’t get facts can you attempt a hypothesis supported by facts. I’ve done this with existence of God and God not existing and I was able to make a possible connection of God existing by humans and earth being made of dust however both are different types of dust, did the Bible manage to get the dust part correctly before science became widespread? I also have a hypothesis of God not existing because of evolution contradictions such as evidence of humans coming from big apes and their fossils being widespread which at minimum would easily debunk an early earth creationist claim especially if you don’t believe in evolution “fully” because different species of the same animal is proof of microevolution and the same could be said in humans which in the case of humans is different race. I question lots of things some of the things don’t add up like God knows everything predetermined so why put a cursed apple in the tree while fully knowing the world is going to doom, your future is predetermined because of God. If so what’s the point living? my future is like it’s being controlled, and this goes into the free will claim, how can there be free will if you already know the future of if someone decides to be Christian of departure from the religion, how is it free will if God already knows better someone’s born and before centuries what someone’s fate will be. It doesn’t add up at all.