2006-09-20 14:02:41 · 10 answers · asked by man of ape 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great answers, wow guys it will be hard to choose best answer,
resist like in do you go to church but hate being there, or do you go so your family stays off your but, go with their flow
2006-09-20 14:19:50 · update #1
Religion made me think that God was a judgmental idiot. A sadistic monster who would punish people for eternity just for being born in the wrong place. I remember walking home from school in about the third grade telling God in my thoughts that if he actually was stupid enough to punish people for not knowing about my faith then he was not going to be my God any longer.
I eventually realized that my religion amounted to little more than a lie that I was told about God. Getting out of that christian nonsense was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-20 14:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It didn't explain to me why I was to believe a book that was supposedly thousands of years old. Also, no one would answer me why Christianity was the right religion, and everyone else was wrong, when most religions have a similar vein.
I'm not sure what you mean by resist. I think for myself now, so I don't know if you would classify that as resisting or going with the flow.
2006-09-20 21:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on one's background, why they reached for religion, and how much of a choice it is for them.
Some folks that are born into a religious family feel perfectly comfortable, and see no reason to push the envelope. I don't disrespect them for that, that is their heritage! "God Bless Them."
Others feel the need to question and learn everything for themselves. Still others have really bad experiences and become antagonistic, disrespectful and sarcastic toward those who choose to follow a faith and (at some point out on the edge of their senses) abandon reason (surrender their intellect for their faith.)
I was involved in a charismatic christian cult. There was one person who decided what was up, and the rest of us snapped into line, or were "demon posessed." A very sick structure. I can remember what it felt like, and it was pretty sick. I can completely understand how fundamentalist islamists feel. It's a scary, scary thing to give your interpretation over to someone else. You cannot resist, your very faith has been used against you to sew you up as a follower. If you THINK a doubtful thought you become your own policeman and beat yourself into submission.
Very scary. I'm getting goose bumps just remembering what it felt like, how oppressive it was. I would've probably strapped a bomb to myself if the leader had said it was god's will. wow.
Later, when I was just in a normal, go with the flow sort of church, life was way better. But I wasnt truly released from the feelings of entrapment until I stopped accepting everything that I had been taught, and reached for more explanations that made sense to me.
Now things are great. I have arrived where I don't like it when people abandon their senses, but I respect reasonable faith, and internally count myself as lucky for having escaped a horrible dream without bitterness.
There are many constructs by which people can live happy lives in peace. A good, focused faith is one way. There are others.
Sorry, I think I've ranted...
2006-09-20 21:33:03 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion has no bearing on what I feel and do to worship God. I only go to non-denominational churches, but most of the time I rely on my prayers and teachings of God in the Bible. I don't resist or go with the flow because I do not go to a church with a denomination. My family (parents and sisters) follow, but I have chosen my own route away from their religion and I have benefited much better.
2006-09-20 21:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to an Evangelical church.
I hated it. And everyone there was a snobby, judgemental prick.
I used to bring tarot cards with me when I was in highschool and the parents got all pissed off. My grandma told me those were of the devil and never to bring them again.
But I don't think tarot cards are real just as much as I don't believe in God.
I don't think there's a "higher power."
I think if there is a "higher power, " it must be the planet we live on and the rest of the universe.
Man can't understand the whole universe, so I guess it would make sense that they would make up something as ludicrous as "God" or even a "higher power."
2006-09-20 21:09:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I prayed to God for him to allow me to believe in him, but that never happened. I question "too much" and got a lot people from church nervous. I saw how they were manipulating me, "Pray harder." "That's Satan controlling your thoughts," and bullshit like that. I began studying more and more, and became an Atheist. I've never been happier.
2006-09-20 21:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I finally realized that religion is a tool to control people and I opened my mind up to knowledge
2006-09-20 21:09:05 · answer #7 · answered by daioka14@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with chris, I go with the flow and follow my heart. that includes my religion.
2006-09-20 21:11:33 · answer #8 · answered by paganrosemama 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am Pagan, we have no doctrine. i choose my gods based on my moral code. so my religion is a reflection of me, i am not a reflection of my religion.
2006-09-20 21:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
im atheist.
so i guess that explains just about everything.
^_^
2006-09-20 21:04:59 · answer #10 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋