Was baptized 6 months ago and I already want to leave the Church
(19M) To start off there are a lot of things I love about the Church, the people, the aesthetics, my faith has freed me from addiction and has made me a legitimately better person. But I can’t take it anymore, I get a ton of anxiety from confession and sins in general that I spend every day being worried about and most recently that has latched onto me playing video games stressing out about the sinfulness of different games and now I feel as though I need to get rid of the majority of the games (and tv shows, movies, etc) that I engage with or else I will be sinning (and sometimes mortally) and even though I still genuinely believe Christ rose from the dead and that he’s God I am at a point in which I am genuinely questioning why I should follow the faith, yeah I’m aware it’s kind of wimpy and pathetic but so much of that media stuff is who I am, not to mention that gaming is the number one way I interact with my friends and I love my interests and it feels like I’m being asked to give them up in exchange for more crippling anxiety and God refusing to speak to me.
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC