[quote].Once you're mentally strong enough, perhaps you could turn your mind toward considering whether there's actually a Big Guy in the Sky, whom you need to propitiate by avoiding food and drink during the daytime.
...you know, given that there's no actual evidence for a BGitS. (And no, the fact that people have perpetuated the susperstitions that were around 1400+ years ago does not count as evidence.)[quote]
ydtk, I would hate to have to see you deny the existence of God, then find out, come the afterlife, that the "Big Guy in the Sky" is the one to judge you; I can not force you or anyone to acceptance the existence of God or the Day of Judgement nor can I bring "scientific evidence" that either exists. Call it superstition or whatever you'd like, but I know that God exists. When I ask for his help, he helps me. When I ask him for strength, he strengthens me. When I ask for guidance, he guides me. When I ask him for safety, he keeps me safe. When I ask him to make today a good day, he does that for me. I have, in my lowest moments, questioned what good my worship is doing, but I opened my mind and heart, kept to my faith, and have realized, indeed, that God is present everywhere.
Life is short, ydtk; can you imagine if you were wrong? Like I said, I won't force you to accept the existence God, but I've said what I've had to say, and you can't force me to abandon God, just as I believe that he will never abandon me.