Everytime I talk to a religious person they are always talking about death, when I die, Hell, living for whoever, making God the only focus of my life.
Is this a hatred of Life?
I love Life..I think God put us here so we could be happy and grow and enjoy the life I was given. I have far too much respect for God to think I was put here to suffer and miserable, because that would be cruel and silly.
Wouldn't God want you to live your life and be happy and enjoy yourself? Why does any good feelings seem to be a bad thing to religion?
2007-02-22 03:34:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mc towliee I understand that and I follow the rules a lot better than 90% of the religious I know or have spoken to. nothing in the rukles says "Be a downer all the time talking about how life is nothing and horrible and keep talking about suffering"
2007-02-22 03:48:05 · update #1
That's the dogma of religion for you. You are right, God is not all about pain, suffering and guilt, that is what people want to lead you to believe. Why God is portrayed as angry, jealous
and vengeful is beyond me. Don't try to put human traits and flaws onto God. That's what makes him God. He's all loving, and not capable
of being nasty and petty like humans.
2007-02-22 03:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Starscape 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This place is the abode of miseries. Material life is miserable life.
Since this is the case, how can we possibly make it comfortable and happy life. "misery" or "suffering," and real suffering is birth, old age, disease, and death. We have set these problems aside because we cannot solve them. How you can become happy here? This is illusion. You can never be happy in this material world, but you are trying to become happy in so many ways. We are deluded, illusioned. We are accepting this place as permanent settlement. We are making plans, so many plans, to make a permanent settlement, but the Lord says it is not only full of misery, you cannot remain here permanently. However make your plan to live here permanently, you cannot live here. You have to give up. You can spoil your energy for making this material world very comfortable or you may live for some years very comfortably, but cruel death will come and snatch from comfortable position and put you into another position which is beyond your control. But about if you take birth in Africa, starving? Are you going still love life?
As a human beings we have to realize the suffering, the cats and dogs, cannot do it, they feel happy just by eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But we are human, we should not just feel happy by this animals propensities, we have to find some answers.
2007-02-22 03:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no religious to tell people commit sucide. If religious cannot useing future of next life to charm people, they are poor and silly, will they follow you without a substaintial benefit?
All religious in the world are talking somethings challengencs but at the moment the hollyman said was correctly. Put into nowaday situation must be silly. All the cultures are medicines, people choice their right medicine to heel their hurt. What 's wrong?
2007-02-22 03:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by johnkamfailee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does intend us to be happy...
If you search the concordance for references to joy and happiness, you will find over 800. I think that the fixation on the cross (death of Christ) instead of the resurrection coupled with the Voice of the Deceiver who wants people to think that obedience to God makes life harder conspire to corrupt reason for most Christians.
The word "gospel" means "good news".
It's a glass half empty/full issue, and many, blinded by the subtle craftiness of men having only a form of godliness, accentuate the dark and gloomy as a way of advancing their own agenda in lieu of that of God.
Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy.
2007-02-22 03:41:47 · answer #4 · answered by Fergi the Great 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right, God did put us here so we could be happy and grow and enjoy the life he gave us AND to obey him.
If he didnt care for us, and wanted us to have a miserable life, then what would've been the point of him sending his only son to die for all of us?
2007-02-22 03:42:14 · answer #5 · answered by Java Chip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many honest but misguided people in this world, and many who are a little broken inside, and in pain. Some turn to drugs--some to Jesus. A few actually heal.
Good feelings are what the true Gospel is about--"Men are that they might have joy." The Savior came to set men free from their chains of darkness and misery.
Luke 4:18 ...he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
So--RIGHT ON! Be happy, don't worry. Best of luck.
2007-02-22 03:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by Dorothy and Toto 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but this is just a test! What do they care if they're happy here! Mortality is a drop in the very large bucket of eternity to them, so why value ANYTHING here?? Just follow the sanctions of God, get to heaven, that's the big goal.
2007-02-22 03:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole point of religion is a continuous molding of a person's character toward the teachings of that religion. This creates a mentality of constant suffering.
2007-02-22 03:37:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does want you to live life and enjoy it. He also wants you to avoid the things that ruin it. You should maybe think whether there is a REASON behind the 'rules'?
2007-02-22 03:40:39 · answer #9 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.. religion offers in a way, a set of rules for people to follow.. and in that sense it can only be negative because rules are all things you "can't" do...
and i don't believe that death, hell, and living forever for example are really that negative either... depends how you view it.
im definately down for enjoying life though... and don't get me wrong, i follow my heart's rules.. not nececcarily the rules from books.
2007-02-22 03:42:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋