I am reading this story about a woman, right now I am not going to reveal the conflict of the story because I am going to make a question about that topic in the future when I finish reading the book.
In her childhood she was put in a boarding school were she was beaten and punished by the Sisters(nuns). When she once asked to the school matron if she truly believed in God, instead of answering the question, she was slapped in the face. She told the girl to get on her knees and pray for forgiveness for asking that question and she felt she was doomed to hell because she questioned the existence of God. She grew up feeling like if God was a vengeful monster that would come as a thief in the night and would take the righteous with him and burn the wicked. She started to distance herself from God.
This is the beginning of the story so I still don't know if her opinion of God changed. I sometimes wonder if the people who have a lot a hate toward God were put in this environment
2006-08-11 11:39:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
where they had many conflicts and were told that God was a a bad being who would punish them for all of their mistakes and if they doubted his existence or did something bad they were mistreated in any way.
Many people need to understand that God means different things to different people, in many places instead of an angry vengeful God, is it taught that God is a happy being who is pleased when we are happy, but I guess that there are certain pleases in the world were people give them bad ideas to others making them lose their faith.
2006-08-11 11:40:05 · update #1
certain places
2006-08-11 11:41:18 · update #2
Also people who were once believers and then changed to atheists or agnostics are included. I believed they were in the wrong environment and were taught incorrect things that made them changed.
Remember God made the world, and the World we make it ourselves. You can't blame your sinful actions at God. Anything that is going on in the world is caused by men sin.
2006-08-11 11:50:35 · update #3
latests, who is the one reading the book? The girl believed in God, but she had fear toward him. Maybe this is not your situation but to many people it is. You aren't the only Life that exists in this world.
2006-08-11 11:52:30 · update #4
I, too, am a Catholic school survivor! LOL
No, really....yes, unfortunate that we often become our experience...and thankfully, only a few religious sects teach of a hateful, vengeful & favorite-playing God.
And, there are others who enter our lives to help us through & we regain the search for truth, which is an all-loving, awe-inspiring, & pure energy spirits that some call God/Goddess.
However, do not judge those who teach otherwise, nor those that provide the experiences, both good & bad...you have little understanding of their purpose in your own spirit growth, let alone those that are indeed in the midst of such...the book you are reading is serving you purpose...it's making you think...read on & enjoy it's experience for you!
2006-08-11 11:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by msE758 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't take a traumatic experience for me to become an atheist if that's what you mean. But then I don't hate god because I can't hate something that I don't believe exists. I am, however, very tolerant to those who have chosen religious beliefs.
I have seen many who display open hatred toward the catholic church. Many times it has its roots in having been to a catholic school which was intolerant to any other belief than their own. Also there's a sense of rebellion against the strict discipline historically found in a catholic school. I think the rebellion against the "discipline" is the catalyst for the hatred.
[Note: I neither have religious belief nor experience in a catholic school. I do however find the topic interesting because in order to hate god you must to some extent believe in one. You can't hate something that doesn't exist.]
2006-08-11 19:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by send_jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to understand something before asking questions like this...it seems like the girl in the story doesn't hate God, she just doesn't believe in God. There is a very big difference.
I don't hate God, I just don't believe God or any other type of supreme being exist. My childhood was normal and I was raised by two loving parents.
2006-08-11 18:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
look and read carefully
the devil exists and nobody will convince me in reverse.
he lives in the souls even of the nuns or in the church.
the devil put in our ways a lot of hurting things and tries very to turn us against the GOD.
everybody must understand that.
GOD exists, because i believe that the human did not evaluate from the monkey or from the uni cell organisms.
say this to that woman and she will understand that the fight between the heaven and hell is made through us, where our goal is not to ask, put questions, but accept the difficulties and go on and have Faith
2006-08-11 18:55:02 · answer #4 · answered by sshadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anythnig about God that is not Unconditional Love is a false image of God, created by our egos, no matter how many sacred books say otherwise. If we think god needs to worshipped, obeyed, pleased, made happy, etc. or if we think that sin, hell, punishment, etc. are real, then we're looking at a made-up god that is a projection of our ego/human thoughts. It's this kind of god and the fact that people use it to justify so many negative things that is the problem.
2006-08-11 18:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. People who claim the god of the bible is evil do not hate him, but most likely don't believe in him. It's part of showing the faultiness of the Christian god's character.
2. People only need read the behaviours and comments of the god of the bible to arrive at their conclusions.
2006-08-11 18:46:02 · answer #6 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that most people who say they "hate" god are just trying to get a rise out of you. These people probably just don't believe in god, and like to taunt religious extremists. I'm agnostic, so if there is a god, I wouldn't hate god.
2006-08-11 18:45:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure this happens alot. I went thru alot of hard stuff too, but am a Christian now. I guess some people get angry at God, and some don't. Depends on their personalities I guess.
2006-08-11 18:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by trainer53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot speak for everyone, but I do not love or hate such imaginary non-beings as Yahweh, Brahma, Tien Ti, Zeus, Odin or other such deities. I do hate it when people shove their beliefs about such deities down my throat, as my oldest sister does. I also hate it when fanatics want their deities' names on all our money, in the Pledge of Allegiance, in public buildings, etc. Your theory is overly simplistic.
2006-08-11 18:52:48 · answer #9 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, God doesn´t change the people. the situation what we lives some times its not how we would want, anything in this life its easy but Got does not to be to blame.
2006-08-11 19:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by Ruth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋