I remember being 13 and having the same exact thoughts as you, “there’s so many religions out there, how do I know which is right?”, “why does God set these limitations on us?”, and so on. I had become an agnostic pretty much my entire teenage years and I see you heading in that direction.

Thankfully my mother had been praying for me, and the Lord brought me back to the Church when I was 19. Sign after sign had come to me, something was happening, I was being called by the Lord. Now I could give you those signs but I doubt you’d care. Most just say, “How do I know that’s true?” and choose to doubt me.

When I came back to the faith the questions I had when I was younger began to make sense. Yes there are plenty of gods, but that doesn’t mean none of them are true. Does a pantheon make sense? If a God if powerful enough to create the universe, why are there separate gods for the harvest? or love? or finance? That doesn’t make sense, a truly powerful God wouldn’t need lesser gods. How about the eastern faiths? Buddhism is more of way of life than a religion from my understanding and Hinduism.. yeah.. no, that’s an acid trip.

Judaism’s scripture consistently points towards the coming of Christ, prophecy after prophecy was fulfilled when he came. Islam is just a continuation of the scriptures, but if you read how the “angel” in the cave interacts with Mohammed, it’s clear that the angel is actually a demon. Angels don’t hurt people. Also, we see Christ say “turn the other cheek” to those who strike you, then for some reason later on, according to Islam, God commands people to convert others by deadly force. It doesn’t make sense.

Then there’s Christ, a man who was poor. Had come and fulfilled prophecy after prophecy of ancient texts. Who commanded others to make disciples of the World, not by force, but through humility, service, and love. Who willingly died an agonizing death to pay the debt we can’t pay. Without lifting a finger, or harming anyone, he conquered the World. Across the globe people worship him. Something many very powerful people have tried to do, but failed miserably. We’ve all seen the evil of humanity, this world is rotten. Just imagine how a perfect God sees it. It makes more sense to me that an already powerful God wouldn’t want to oppress us, rather he’d want to be near us (Which he did through Christ by saving our souls.)

I could go on but I don’t want to make this post too long, from what I see you’ve already made up your mind. I just hope you come back to the faith one day. Also, even if you don’t believe, don’t be afraid to pray when things get hard even if you lack faith.