What does it feel like not to have any religious beliefs? can you put me in your shoes?

Question

I want to know what it feels like. What do you feel when someone dies, when you are sad, when something you wanted to happen did not happen, when you are in need...

Answer 1

Same thing, same worries,some sorrows, you have your Family for comfort, but here is whats important...you concentrate on things that are important, to you and all the Folks next to you.

Answer 2

I was raised christian. I began to realize that there were things that didn't seem right with what I was being taught when I was in my early teens, but didn't fully reach my belief that the Bible is myth until my early twenties.

I don't know how the universe came to exist. But I'm pretty certain that whatever the reason is, the Bible and other religious books came out of mankind's earlier attempts to make sense of our existence, and they knew even less than we know now. I get the sense that religious people feel a need to "know" (or think they know) that there is a creator who has a purpose for us. I think that belief is misguided.

I believe that life on this planet is the result of natural causes, and that the Theory of Evolution is the best description of the process that happened after abiogenesis (the formation of the first self-replicating organic molecules). It is truly amazing and wonderful that we exist. I feel fortunate to be evolved enough to be able to largely understand the process, and to be able to contribute to furthering our understanding.

We've all been taught that we should "thank" anyone who gives us something, and that all "gifts" require a giver. So its somewhat natural for us to want to believe that someone gave us the gift of life, and to want to thank that being. But I think that is a semantic confusion. Life is not a gift of an intelligent designer, and the sooner we all realize that, the sooner we can go on to being fully realized beings.

Answer 3

when someone dies I dance around naked and sacrifice a small animal or two, when i'm sad I drink some goat blood and beat on a drum with the bones of an elephant and then dance around naked and do a few hand stands just for the hell of it, when something I want does not happen I swallow a few whole birds eggs and walk around on shoes made out of the wood of a mango tree and howl at the moon, but only if it's an even day of the week

Answer 4

well all it is is that you are supplied with lots of information and you get to analise it and make up your own mind. like the creation of the world for instance, was their an arcutect like allah or god? or was there a big bang of some sort?

it basicly gives u the oppertunity to beleve what you want on your own back without being molded to think in one way.

im not saying relion is a bad thing because some arts give good points and bring people together, help keep society together but it also causes conflicts.

the thing about religion is that it is biased, beleve in nothing and you can take any side, invent wone of ur own or not beleve anything.

does this help?

Answer 5

it feels sad in a way because you have lost that childlike innocence taught by your parents. you are no less good, kind and wise than anyone else, i believe, because your humanity and love are the same as those who believe in a higher being, but in certain respects you're more realistic i think because you refuse to follow the magical thinking of the large majority who can't explain existence without having god in the mix--if god were always here, why couldn't mass or matter always be here too? i wish there was a god because that could only be a good thing, but i cannot make myself believe what i cannot believe. i am not, however, a troubled soul--i love life incredibly. i love people, including muslims like yourself who are good and kind and searching for more meaning in life. please understand that atheists just believe differently and are not evil. or at least no more evil than man is in general.
peace muslimah

Answer 6

I feel free. I'm glad I have judgement that can't be restricted by superfluous beliefs. I'm glad that I can be myself, that I could be gay, I could hate my neighbors, that I could commit suicide if I wanted to, without hating or judging myself, and feeling like I was a sinner. I feel lucky to be alive, knowing that there are so many things that could have happened that would have changed that. I'm glad that I can be independent, and that I can get myself throught tough times without the support of anyone. I feel free to rejoice in the beauty of nature, science, logic, and reason, and feel humble in knowing that there is so much more out there than my little corner of the universe.

Answer 7

Well...I feel like me. You know how you feel when you are in the middle of something, just everyday life stuff, and religion isn't in thought at the moment and you just feel like you, living your life? That.

As for sad things, we feel sad like anyone else. I think many believers know how we feel over loss. Just because they may believe in an afterlife doesn't mean that many of them still don't have that sadness early on as if this was just the end of the person. Like anyone, we just try to deal the best we can.

Answer 8

It is liberating in an intellectual sense. You pitiful religionists live in a delusional world where your actions are proscribed by a made-up vain, vindictive god that punishes you for eternity if you do not figure out the "proper" way to stroke it's ego in a highly proscribed manner that it mostly keeps hidden from you. I can't understand how anyone could be shallow enough to swallow religion's pile of superstitious bilge.

Answer 9

It feels responsible.

It feels like you don't have to worry about the world not making sense.

It feels like you can look at someone else's superstition and be grateful that you don't have to follow those silly rules.

It feels like friendships matter because of what you know about one another, not because you share a common faith.

It feels like there are possibilities that religion won't allow:
-Women get full choices about their lives in equality with men.
-Homosexuals are acknowledged as having value and the capacity to enter into loving relationships.
-Science deserves the tools it needs to help improve our lives.
-People are not told what to believe, but they can choose what to believe as makes sense to them.

It feels like the world is not so much messed up as scared, and that if you can deal with the fear of NOT having a God, you suddenly can open yourself to the wonder of the universe as an amazing event on its own.

And after reading your additional information, let me add:
Death feels sad. Failure feels disappointing. However, realism means recognizing we are all temporary, and our efforts have limits. However, even though we're temporary, we're here NOW, and even though our efforts are limited, they still have influence.

Answer 10

Wtf? I feel just like everyone does. How do you feel when you cut your leg somewhere? Does it hurt? Same here, we're both human, we would we feel different?

But I know what you mean by that. I admit, I feel sad and lonely sometimes for no reason, but I think it's worth it. I don't want to believe in something that's fake in my eyes. I don't want to have false hope, blind faith, etc. Why? .....when it's all fake, then it's worth getting sad and lonely and even feeling empty sometimes. I'll get used to it eventually, but my life has gotten better without "god" despite the lonliness. I can't explain it

Answer 11

I don't suppose people with no religious beliefs would bother looking at a Religion and Spirituality boar--- oh, you mean us atheists again! Of course, we don't believe in anything, do we? We haven't thought about the great problems of existence, why we are here, what happens to us when we die or how to be moral.