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If you're looking for a religion, you fundamentally need one that not just teaches correct morality but is also true. There are a few reasons for this--it's impossible to back up morality without relying on truth, truth leads to good morality, believing in a lie is not moral--but I hope that the statement itself just rings true to you. You don't want to deliberately choose to believe in a lie, right?
So, given that, anything we sell you will be insufficient, and you will have to find the truth of it for yourself. I think philosophy can lead towards the truth, but at the end of the day it's hard to tell whether a given moral system truly "works" without "seeing its fruits" so to speak.
I could try to sell you my religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) but I think there are some more important principles that are worth discussing here. Why are we in this situation to begin with? Why does everyone not agree on morality? Alma 32 says:
In other words, with knowledge comes responsibility and accountability, so God will only give us the knowledge that we are ready for, as quickly as we are ready for it. Let me be clear here that by "knowledge" I mean "evidence"--knowing what the will of God theoretically could be is very different from knowing the will of God.
The rest of the chapter goes on to explain what is, in my opinion, the best method for finding the truth of these things, and I encourage you to read it. I'd share more detail, but honestly I'm pretty bad at starting from the beginning in these matters, so I'd give you an enormous rambling sermon rather than anything useful. I hope the chapter helps.
Haha I was reading the bullet points and my missionary brain just suddenly came surging back into full force, like that's a bingo. /u/Questioner1, you could always reach out to local missionaries in your area (google it, shouldn't be too hard to find an online chat to hook you up) - you can shoot the breeze with them, ask them whatever you want, if you grow tired of it you can tell them to get lost - might meet some interesting young people from who knows where.
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