Meaning what kind of struggle do you have with your religion that you would not have to go through had you had no religion at all?
2006-11-10 10:24:34 · 22 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You mean other than being stopped at every airport, checkpoint, roadblock and having people stare at you from the corners of their eyes every time you go to the movies or the mall or board the train? Not much.
It is all worth it. Allah is watching and the reward is with Him.
2006-11-10 17:15:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This question is not geared to me but I would like to give an answer.
I'm a non-believer, and I the hardest thing about being a non-believer is how do you find comfort when a loved one dies.
From my perspective if you believe in a Religion and a god the answer is pretty straight forward. The loved one goes to paradise. Everyone is sad but you can take comfort in the fact that he/she has gone to a better place and you will join them again. I think this would make it easier.
I don't have this support and sometimes it leads me on some pretty dishonest lines of thinking. Should I just believe in God just so I'm no longer sad. This strikes me as selfish.
That final goodbye is hard on everyone and I'm not trying to solicit sympathy, this is just my train of thought.
2006-11-10 10:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have idiot fundamentalists saying people who share my beliefs are devil worshippers who have sex with animals and sacrifice Christian infants to the devil. I am not a Satanist, much less a seriously mental serial killer Satanist, I am a pagan who believes that the most sacred things are love and life. As such, I try my best to do no harm to any living things (well, okay... roaches are an exception LOL) and while I do love animals, it's most definitely NOT in that way!
2006-11-10 10:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by triviatm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God but I refuse to belong to a religion. The dogma they expect me to support and believe is against my moral code I refuse to pay the price of belonging to any religion.
2006-11-10 10:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My biggest struggle is with misidentification. I am often confused for pagans or Wiccans, and though I have studied those various systems, I am not one of them. Heathens are unique and completely separate. That's hardly anything to complain about though, is it?
~Morg~
2006-11-10 10:31:10 · answer #5 · answered by morgorond 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Persecution
2006-11-10 10:25:56 · answer #6 · answered by jeff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will I lose this friend or that friend if they find out that I'm Wiccan? Even though they've known me longer than they've known my spiritual path, will they look at me differently? Will my parents stop talking to me when I finally come out of the broom closet? Will some fanatic kill my cats if they find out that a witch lives in their building? While I'm out to dinner one night, will someone complain if I'm wearing a pentagram and it slips out of the neckline of my dress?
2006-11-10 11:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by wyvern1313 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I had no religion I would not have people looking at me like I am going to turm them into a toad!
2006-11-10 10:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by marjojung 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist. Reality is not a struggle, it's a great way to live.
2006-11-10 10:26:08 · answer #9 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have more of a struggle without my relationship with Christ. I would probably drink, smoke, have immoral sex.... and so on.
The only struggle I have is to die daily to my sin nature, but in the end it is a pleasure because it draws me closer to God.
2006-11-10 10:28:14 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋