A question for anyone?

Question

What has caused some of you to get out of church. or even hate God so bad? Please give me serious answers. Thank you.

Answer 1

When I became a young adult, I strayed from church and all that goes with it. Now that I am older, I have returned and am very happy that I did. However, my only real reasoning for leaving was that it was easier. If I didn't go to church, I didn't have to feel guilty about premarital sex or drinking or drug use. If I didn't go to church, I could stay out longer on Saturday nights. If I didn't go to church, it wouldn't matter to me that I the guy I date isn't a Christian. All those things were more important to me. There was no moment of truth that brought me back either. I just grew up and realized that I truly was happier when I went to church and read my Bible and had something to look forward to that was deeper than the world around me. I can't speak for anyone else, but that is what it was for me. I wanted to have "fun" and not acknowledge that I was wrong in what I was doing. Not all fun is wrong, but the things I wanted to were. This may be the reason for others or not, but I can't imagine I'm the only one.

Answer 2

For me it was a mixture of things. It began when I was about 18 and I started noticing how hypocritic some of the members were. Well, I kept going to church through the years, always questioning things and relying more on my instinct and determining what was right for me. Of course, churches kind of frown on independent thought. When I was 25 I started getting horrible feelings when I went into church. I felt as if I shouldn't be there. At times I felt like I was suffocating or that I'd be struck by lightning. I finally quit going. By this time I was in a horrible depression. I figured that God hated me for no reason that I could come up with other than I must be evil and unloveable. I came very close to committing suicide because things were that unbearable. Fortunately, I met a man online. He was an absolutely amazing person. A couple months after we started talking (and we were talking every day for at least eight hours a day) we met. The first week we were together was a rebirth for me. I had some amazing spiritual revelations and realized that even though I was doing things that the church considered immoral, they were right for me. I continued to open up and feel more alive than I had ever felt in my life. I started trusting my instincts more and discovered the spiritual aspects of nature and being alive. My beloved taught me all that as he was dying from cancer. After he died, I came to the realization that I couldn't have been such an evil person that God wouldn't want because that man would never love someone who was that evil. I quit worrying about what I thought God thought of me and realized that there is absolutely no person on earth who can fully comprehend what God is or isn't. Now I live my life the best I can, trust my intuition to lead me and try to be kind to others. For me that's the secret...live and love and everything will somehow eventually fall into place.

Answer 3

Contradictions like an unconditionally Loving God with endless conditions that must be met for you to be acceptable.

One or the other of these ideas must be untrue.

Understand you can love God but dislike the nonsense religion says about God.

Religion has set its self up as the final authority over something that it knows almost nothing about, God.

All ideas that most religions have about God are merely ego projections that people have placed on God.

The real God loves you and would never judge or punish anyone for any reason.

Seeing this is having perfect faith in God.

Seeing anything else as true is having only partial faith.

Love and blessings.

Answer 4

I did go to church for a while but I left it become closer to the Creator. The Creator is not a man - that is a lie to justify a patriarchal system. I have never been closer to the Creator since when I left the church (and I went to several different ones).

I won't say I hate anybody or any group, but I don't like Christianity (or any organized religioin for that matter). I don't like the roles they try to put men and women into. Look at the US and western Europe, which are considered a predominately Christian nations. Look at the percentage of women in government and on the corporate boards. When a politician in Norway (I don't remember her name) started to push for laws that would require corporate boards to have equal numbers of men and women, she was conveniently murdered.

I love the Creator and the creation, but I do not like men's ideas about god.

Answer 5

There are a lot of hypocrites in the churches. I don't believe you have to be in a church to talk to God or to worship him.
I was angry at God for taking my husband of only 2 and a half years. I couldn't understand why and truthfully I still don't know. It has been 7.5 years and I am not as angry but I still miss him terribly. I don't hate God and don't think I ever have. I know there are a lot of younger people who have never even heard of him. Makes life a lot tougher.

Answer 6

I don't hate God. I just don't believe the teachings of the church which say if I don't live by God's "commandments" I will be punished and sent to hell. I know that hell and the devil do not exist. I don't believe that a loving God would use fear in order to make people love him. Can you imagine how insecure a God must be in order for you to be the one who makes him feel worthy? God is love, God is all there is. We are God sent here to learn who we really are.

Answer 7

I don't know where you get this "hate god" nonsense from. I see a lot of messages from people who do not find any compelling reasons to BELIEVE that any gods exist... but I don't recall any serious posts that convey that somebody actually believes in god, and hates him (it?).

I think that your question is indicative of a problem that afflicts many christians... your mind has been so closed and warped by your beliefs that rationality is an alien concept to you. You are unable to hold in your mind the idea that anyone could NOT believe in god; therefore, your beliefs force you to interpret that they MUST believe in god, but are lying about it to cover up the fact that they HATE god. You interpret 'non-belief' as 'hate'.

Your question does not reflect a problem with the world... it reflects a flaw in your thinking. Truly rational people typically DO NOT believe in gods, for the very simple reason that the universe is explainable WITHOUT having to resort to ridiculous superatural ideas.


"It's a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science -- that it has made it possible for people not to be religious." ~ Steven Weinberg, quoted in Natalie Angier, "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist," New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2001

Answer 8

I don't hate god anymore than I hate Pan or Odin. I quit going to church because I quit believing god existed.

Why do you find it difficult to believe that others don't believe in god like you do? It really isn't about loving sin, or hating god, or any of the usual BS your preacher tells you for most people. It's just a loss of faith.

Answer 9

I don't hate god, I don't understand why I should follow a religion when I can be a good person without being religious, I don't see any point in churches and in religions; it seems like religion make people narrow-minded, intolerant to other people

Answer 10

The reason I am not in church is my health...I can not sit but a few minutes at a time nor can I stand more than a few minutes.
I do listen to several religious programs on the TV. God say "Where two or more are joined in my name, I, too, am there."