It seems there's a lot of people who are "spiritual" or think that Church provides good morals and a good community, which is great and true, but the reality is is that there's a lot more truth behind the "2000 year old bedtime stories" than most people think. Much of what has been said is true, religion is often used as a method of control and power, the crusades were a big no no, and yes it can often seem, and be, very culty. However, religion is truly just how people try to organize around the cultural movement stemming from what was written down long ago, but the reason many people are a part of it is because there is an underlying truth. That truth is that Jesus Christ really did sacrifice himself upon the cross, and God is real, and he really does love us.
Many will try and argue that there's no true evidence for God, and so therefore He does not exist, but in this they fail to acknowledge that there is also no evidence for the contrary, or any evidence pointing towards any other theory. In fact, the argument that everything comes from nothing (Big Bang) is far less logical than an argument for God. It defies all evidence of what we know to be true in our world, which is that life comes from other life. There is also something to be said about how the order and design of our universe works too cohesively together to be a coincidence, so its more likely that whatever being created the universe is an intelligent creator. There will never be 100% evidence of any theory of creation, so our only option is to believe in the most likely theory.
Again this line of judgement is used when speculating the validity of Jesus Christ. While there's no real historical evidence of Jesus of Nazareth's existence besides the Gospels (which many claim to be fabricated by Constantine in order to maintain control over his empire), there is extra-biblical documents describing the martyr of at least 3 apostles dated before the existence of Constantine, and obviously what is written in the bible about the death and suffering the apostles endured. Nobody would believe a lie to their death, and the apostles had everything to lose and nothing to gain from attesting to the resurrection of Christ. It is very reasonable to believe that Jesus did sacrifice himself on the cross and rise from the dead. He did this because He loved us. He foresaw his death and foresaw the betrayal of Judas and Peter towards him, yet still died the death Peter and Judas deserved because of their direct betrayal towards the living God, Jesus Christ. He knew they would betray Him, and He knew that we too would continue to betray Him, yet He died for our betrayals anyways simply because He loves us. We didn't do anything to deserve His love yet we have it anyway, and that is why God is worth worshipping.
Repent and Believe in the Gospel.
