what experience in life has made you cold toward God?

Question

So many people here are coming across as disillusioned, angry, frustrated and totally hating toward anything to do with God. What has happened to cause this attitude?

Answer 1

Evangelical Christians and their attitude. I have a deep and intense loathing of them. I regard them as being unnatural people with a warped sense of values and beliefs.

Answer 2

For christians, sometimes we might turn cold towards god when we don't get what we want and get frustrated instead. It is very easy to give in to sins at this point of time and when we continue to sin more, its easy to get further and further away from God till a point when we do not feel the intimacy with god as in the past. Hmm, the worst will come about when some leave the church and we must continue to pray for them and at the same time to believe that god has the best plan for us.

Answer 3

I think for myself, I did not become cold towards God, it might be appropriate to say that God is a busy entity and does not need to be bothered with whatever I've got going on.

So I've got my business and God's got his/hers.

Mine activties involves working, eating,finding / hanging out with friends, sex, learning and even occasionally wondering what God is up to.

God's involves making planets, conjuring Universes, smiting, casting out and such. So basically our path's don't cross too often.

However, to suggest that somehow, I am not doing my part for the species or to impress God somehow. I refuse to consider it reasonable that humans were meant to worship in blind obedience in a similar form to that of the Ancient Chinese emperors wishing to be venerated by the peasantry.

It is similarly inappropriate to suggest that with the emergence of literacy and reasoned discourse by most - if not all people about the nature of the universe and the rise of the arts of science, that we are offending some omnipotent being somehow.

Furthermore, I wish to believe in a diety that is not constrained by our understanding of the universe, I don't believe for instance in a "God of the Gaps", wherein we find God existing in all the things we don't understand, ala the Intelligent Design farce.

I find the grace and span of the galaxy and the universe beyond to be awesome in the providential sense. I find our place here in the universe and my God's importance in my live not the LEAST bit diminished by any discovery in science or my understanding of the universe.

It's simply the case that we have such a completely poor understanding of the cosmos and it's workings that to suggest there is any conceivable way we can meaningfully help or hurt such an entity egotistical - at the very least, and insulting towards God in any event.

What I find disturbing is the disconnect of mankind from the attributes of God, kindness, charity, humility and for lack of a better word love.

We do in fact, each of us abuse ourselves in myriad ways from nationalistic wars for resources, to racism, economic privation and political oppressions. We convince ourselves we are so much more "advanced" but we live increasingly isolated lives,
we refer to these problems in any other way other than what they are, bad behavior, both great and small.

I don't NEED a religious order or following to tell me this is so, it has in one way or another ALWAYS been this way, it's the truth of the matter, whether I like it or not.

So I do what I can, I'm charitable in so far as I can be, I try to help out where I can, and I try to uphold a personal moral code of conduct in which I was raised , and I don't think that really requires that I follow Buddha, Mohammed, Moses or Jesus at the tail of the day.

What counts is what we do, I'm also pretty convinced that God may not be quite so worried about how we pray or what we pray, but simply that occasionaly, we do.

Answer 4

I grew up Southern Baptist, and I am naturally curious. When I reached my teens I started to study different religions, and found that many are similar, and we will not know who is the 'right' one untill we die. I also spoke to athiests, and discovered that they did not worship the devil like I was always told, they worship nothing. That is a HUGE difference. When I brought up what I had learned in my studies, I was told that I had evil ways and I was going to hell because I did not have complete faith. When I challenged them with scriptures that proved them wrong, I became an outcast. I had one friend, and none of the other kids would talk to us much. I was constantly told by my father that I needed to repent, that I was a Jezebel, and that I was going to hell. I now believe in God and Jesus, and I realized that I still believed after my son was born. The first time I looked at him I thanked God. I still find it hard to step foot into a church, even though the one I go to on Holidays is very liberal. It makes me feel a bit nausous to be inside the sanctuary. I am always on edge. I consider myself a Christian because I believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but I get sick when I hear fanatics preach to others. I know churches can be hypocritical. My father was a deacon and hit me with a belt every day if I left homework on my desk, yelled at us constantly, drank with his other deacon buddies, and finished it all with church.

Answer 5

I'm not disillusioned or angry, but you have to understand one thing: There is no God. So your question is pretty much moot.
If there were a God that would be great, but there just isn't one. (If you believe in an imaginary God, that's okay; but at least be honest and don't try to pretend it's real.)

Answer 6

why do you think its cold toward god, people cant be cold toward something they believe doesnt exist.

they are cold toward religion and how people oppress it on everyone around them. the constant condemnation of people, telling them they are going to hell for not believing. the way they approach you in the streets, the malls, even your house. how they dont take no for an answer. how they have absolutely no respect for those around them, can make a person cold towards them.

however im agnostic, and i must say that 12 years of having religion shoved down my throat in a religious school didnt help. the more i read, the more i learned, and the more inconsistancies i found within the bible. the less i believed, the more i realized the adults of the church have been lying to me.

Answer 7

I have had many experiences that have left me cold toward religion, but this has nothing to do with God.

I now see religion for what it is, a lie about God.

love and blessings Don

Answer 8

Not hating, just just don't feel anything. My prayers were echo's until I quit saying them. I understand sometimes the answer is no, but I didn't get an answer to anything ever.

Answer 9

Chronic physical problems - I did not do these to myself, so if there is a god, I am holding it personably responsible for my physical problems as well as others - not to mention disease, viruses, bacteria, etc.

Answer 10

What experience in life has made you cold toward God?

When I was LIED TO and fooled by THE BIG CULT!

now I am a TRUE CHRISTIAN and HAPPY!

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