does your religion or lack thereof affect whether or not you are an optimist or a pessimist?

Question

what religion are or arent you and is your glass half full or half empty?

Answer 1

I did a question on 'is this planet getting better or worse' and almost to a man the christians said 'worse'. Most other people were not so uniformly pessimistic.

Answer 2

I'm no religion now, though I was raised Christian. I still believe in God. But I guess I am neither a pessimist or an optimist. I am a "see life like it is" person. Therefore, a half a glass of water is just that - a half a glass of water.

Answer 3

My current understanding of the nature of God, Creation and our purpose on Earth leaves me with both enthusiastic optimism and mild anxiety.

I believe we are each immortal souls and destined to be re-united with the Loving God, which is cause for immense gratitude and optimism. However I'm afraid we're in for some rough times in our immediate future before mankind finally chooses enlightenment.

I follow no organized religion but instead have followed my heart and allowed science to bring me to a fuller understanding of God's true nature and purpose.

Answer 4

i;m a muslim and i'm optimistic.
and definitely my religion affects my outlook on life. I trust in God. I turst that He will do what is best for me and He'll get be through good and bad. so when i know i'm not alone and that He is there there's really no point to thinking that everything is horrible and going to hell!

Answer 5

I used to be a Christian, and believe me when you feel no matter how bad it gets everything will be ok, someone always loves and cares for you, with God all things are possible, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, though I walk through the shadow of death I will fear no evil, you will have everlasting life, and evil will be punished---I'd say that made me more optimistic!

Answer 6

Im an agnostic atheist. Its 50-50 for the glass thing.

Answer 7

faith has affected my existence very much in the damaging. For a initiate it crippled my harmless early existence via being continuously informed via college and church that i become a sinner, even though it did no longer remember, Jesus might shop me. i become taught plenty rubbish approximately going to heaven above if i become good and going to hell if i become undesirable that I spent the whole of my early existence annoying every time i become slightly naughty if i become going to circulate to hell. I grew up thinking that intercourse become wicked, a sin, homosexuality become a value tag to hell, thinking approximately ladies being bare become my fee ticket to hell and to no longer masturbate using fact god ought to be certain what i become doing. whilst i become 12, and just about had just about accomplished affirmation training I unexpectedly found out that faith become an entire liturgy of lies and deception, something invented to regulate human beings. I became an atheist and have lived a existence just about freed from all the old nonsense that i become brainwashed and controlled via. I grew up as a humanist unswayed via the judgemental and inhumane practices that i might been taught as a newborn. i'm now tolerant, non-judgemental, non-racist and love fellow human beings, despite the fact that their ideals, race, shade, sexual orientation are.

Answer 8

I'm a natural-born pessimist.

There's no Heaven or Hell, when we die we die and become maggots and dust.

I always think I'm going to die in a car wreck. And I wake up everymorning thinking this is my last day alive.

Being an Atheist, I sorta lack the faith and hope of Theists.

Still, I cannot force myself to believe in any deity whatsoever. I guess I'm too smart for it.

Answer 9

No, but you can use it to fuel your tendency for pessimism or optimism.

I'm pretty optimistic. I'm an atheist. My glass is simply full.

Answer 10

I'm an atheist and I have optimism pouring out my eyeballs- I drive people nuts with positive outlook!! :)