2007-03-15 08:11:53 · 25 answers · asked by U-98 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do recovering faith addicts find reality a shocking and disapointing thing to face up to.
2007-03-15 08:16:08 · update #1
scrub the previous details.
Reality is great!
Choose reality!
2007-03-15 08:20:20 · update #2
I like many of the answers. Several even make good sense! still unsure though.
Voter's opinions?
2007-03-15 14:18:49 · update #3
Very similar. Both produce euphoria and paranoid thinking. Remember, religion is the called the opiate of the masses for a good reason.
2007-03-15 08:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Funny you should ask,
I began examining my faith once I began getting off medicaiton prescribed by my doctor that I had been taking for some time (this was all legal). Getting off the medicine itself was a kind of enlightening experience. I began questioning a lot of things both within reach and beyond my immediate reach. Naturally religion got tied into all of this. I denounced Christianity which I was brought up to beleive. I seriously considered covnerting to Islam for quite some time as I continued to examine various religions and world cultures. And then the other day, I was like wow we cannot possibly understand the nature of God. I beleive in God, not religion.
Tao never acts, yet nothing is left undone. (Tao Te Chig 37)
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.
-Mahatma Gandhi
2007-03-15 15:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by Yahoo Sucks 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's like sobering up. You look back on the way you acted when you were drunk on faith and you go, "Oh, wow...did I really do that?" It's not a painful or traumatic process...it's more like, "Why didn't I do this sooner? Why did it take so long to wake up?" It's a little embarrassing to realize that everything you thought you were getting from god (love, security, happiness) is right here in the real world and all you have to do is find it.
2007-03-15 15:16:34 · answer #3 · answered by Non-Believers.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope, not for me. Actually it felt very much like a 10 ton rock was removed from me because all the wrong in my life pretty quickly began to turn right...still enjoying the results so I have to say that in my case it felt like I was taking them :)
2007-03-15 15:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by dustiiart 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's scary to think differently than you've been taught! Especially when you are told you will go to hell if you don't! But, I never thought any of them made any sense, so I have my own beliefs now and feel very comfortable about them! Hope you can get there too!
2007-03-15 15:16:57 · answer #5 · answered by wish I were 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.
I mean, I get the analogy, but no.
Well, OK. Yes. lol...in the sense that for some people, it involves giving up a mindset, a habit, a delusional way of thinking, sure, I can see the similarity.
2007-03-15 15:15:02 · answer #6 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really. Sometimes I find myself missing the feeling I had when I thought someone was out there looking after me...but I hit the meth pipe and I feel better...ahaha
Kill your GOD, Free your mind.
2007-03-15 15:15:58 · answer #7 · answered by plferia 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It can be difficult or simple depending on your lifestyle...
If you want to stop beliefs in a religeon you should listen to youself and think about what you want to follow in life
WOO! EXAMPLES!!!!
Christianity, Hinduism, Buddism, Jedi (the religeon of non-believers)
You should listen to yourself, if you are confident on what to go for, then, it will be easy on yourself.
2007-03-15 15:25:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
giving up religion is the easiest thing to do in you life;
Here's the first step to eliminating religion:
Create a private, personal, direct, divine Relationship with Our Creator and save your Soul from religion.
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
2007-03-15 15:16:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you believe that food can come to your mouth without putting it by yourself,then you can believe that that world can be created or continued without God.Any action needs an actor logically.
2007-03-15 15:21:31 · answer #10 · answered by Ahmad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, in that you'll feel much more intelligent and clear minded, but without all those ugly withdrawl symptoms.
2007-03-15 15:15:18 · answer #11 · answered by Some Lady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋