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  • I've struggled with religion over the years. I was raised Christian

  • - Dear God, please let me win the lottery so I can take over the world

  • And adopt all the cats. Okay, thanks, bye!

  • After my sister's suicide when I was 17, I became atheist.

  • - Dear God, why would you do that? You're a jerk and I'm leaving. Bye!

  • Then I discovered Buddhism.

  • - Dear Buddha, your Eightfold path sounds super chill. Great job, dude

  • And finally, I have settled on being Agnostic.

  • - Dear aliens, or the FBI, or my brother, whoever's listening, really,

  • If there is a higher power I couldn't comprehend it, much like an ant can't comprehend

  • self-employment tax under annual return forms. And therefore

  • I will be satisfied knowing that I can't possibly know.

  • From my experience, spirituality is something my generation doesn't really look at.

  • You know, we don't really question it. We're not encouraged to meditate

  • And when we try to - holy shit, is it hard.

  • [screams] - This is so boring! I got shit to do!

  • I'm also not a big fan of organized religion. I don't understand how we can

  • have a one-size-fits-all book of rules for all of humanity and we can claim to know where we go after we die

  • when we can't even explain the phenomenons that happen at the subatomic level

  • - The results are in...and we now know...that we know nothing!

  • [cheering]

  • - In fact, these new results call everything that we thought we knew

  • Into question!

  • [cheering]

  • - We are scientists!

  • Should I believe in God? And if so, which one should I believe in?

  • You know, should I believe in the traditional Western version of God

  • where he's this omnipotent dude who sits in the sky and watches

  • everything that I do because he's got a subscription to me?

  • - Please let me win the lottery so I can take over the world and adopt all the cats.

  • - How does she know her destiny?

  • - How do I do a memory wipe?

  • [groans] - Damned thing. I need some batteries.

  • And I want to believe there's a God out there who's looking out for me,

  • looking out for everyone else.

  • But when I really think about all of the horrible things that happen on Earth

  • I just - I just can't believe it.

  • Is there a higher power out there that kind of like guides us through the Universe

  • or are we all connected somehow? Is there some kind of, like, divine energy

  • flowing through?

  • I mean, I would really like to believe that. But don't get me wrong -

  • to each their own.

  • If a religion resonates with you and if it makes you want to be a better person

  • then absolutely follow it. I'm just saying we should all come to our own

  • conclusions based on our own life experiences and find a spirituality

  • that really rings true for us.

  • You know, for me, my beliefs have been kind of fluid and evolving

  • throughout my life and I kind of expect them to continue to be.

  • But what about you? Am I going to regret asking this question

  • and doing a whole video on this topic? Am I opening a can of worms?

  • Let me know. I'm Anna Akana - stay awesome, Gotham.

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  • I love listening to audio books because it helped save my children.

  • The trees.

  • Currently I'm listening to "Room" by Emma Donoghue because it is a daring

  • story of a mother herself.

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  • That's Audible.com/Anna.

  • Mother Earth - out.

I've struggled with religion over the years. I was raised Christian

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我應該相信上帝嗎? (Should I Believe In God?)

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