anyone willing to tell me their bad experiences with religion as i am writing a play on it?

Question

hi i am writing a play on the destructive force of religion and want to gather stories of people who have been used abused tortured or hurt by religion over their lives- i am particularly interested in how cults and religious leaders try to influence us and gain our trust merely to justify their own ambitions and piety- thank you- everything treated in confidentiality
thanks

Answer 1

Do we get any royalties

Answer 2

I was a devout Christian, had been most of my life. I had my share of "back-sliding" but I always came back to the foundation of Christianity. I was so faithful and believed so fully that I was even able to convert an atheist. (My husband at the time).

Our marriage had its problems and was pretty much on a downward spiral within the first year. But I stuck it out. Until the day I found out he had been cheating on me with a parishioner in our church. It was the last straw. I decided I was past trying to salvage a marriage he didn't want to save and asked for a divorce. The church shunned me, embraced him, even knowing that he had cheated. How do you justify and embrace a person who broke one of the ten commandments and shun the person who was divorcing them BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS A VIABLE REASON int the eyes of god.

This is the experience with Christians and organized religion that made me start to question whether or not unquestioned faith was a good thing or a complete hinderance to the kind of person I longed to be.

Answer 3

My brother committed suicide because he got involved with a fundamentalist religion (the one with the crystal cathedral in California). They had such restrictive rules by which to live that he felt like a failure. They pretended to be a guiding light to salvation, but turned out to be a soul eroding force. After his funeral, his wife said, one thing you have to say about the church is that they take such good care of widows. I didn't get the chance to ask her how many widows they create.

Answer 4

Sounds like a lot of poor pitiful me answers. There's not one of us that has ever walked this earth that has not been wronged in some way. It's part of life, "butch up" accept it and move on.

Any one who puts all their trust in any church will get burned at some point. Put your trust in God and you will not go wrong. So many people leave the body because "someone" made them mad.

Put your faith in God!

Answer 5

Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet...a bullet, and I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that, I was walking down the street, when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon bible out a hotel room window, hitting me in the chest. Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.


Hope it's a comedy

Answer 6

Nah. multiple the ideals contained in the Bible, in particular the previous testomony or Jewish Bible, are previous besides and as quickly as have been international ideals (ex. the international is flat). yet there is particularly multiple fact. in actuality, presently archeologists stumbled on evidence of a large flood happening hundreds of years in the past. Ever hear of Noah's Ark?

Answer 7

I was pressured to believe in Christianity even though I never did even as a young child so it slightly traumatised me emotionally I guess.

I later discovered the right faith for me and am spiritually happy now.

Answer 8

it was in sixth grade, st. francis of assissi school somewhere in ma. we had nuns for teachers...lol...now if THAT isnt the dumbest thing you could possibly do! hey, ive got this great idea! lets put a bunch of vulnerable kids in the clutches of clueless nuns! perfect!! anyway, one day, sister mary triggerhappy decided to invade the privacy of the boys bathroom because she heard us laughing in there...true story...she actually grabbed the guy in the next urinal and yanked him backwards while he was still going. he got so mad, he elbowed her in the stomach and screamed out these words, " jesus h christ, you cant even take a ******* piss in this school!" sister mary triggerhappy turned white, then red, and then, she just disappeared with him down the corridor...we didnt see him for two weeks. ill never forget that...

Answer 9

watch the news lots of horror stories and its free..me personally have no issues have all sorts in family and we all get on fine no issues respect one an others beliefs cool but were out there as many others come from big family so go watch media sure they will help to stir you on your way

Answer 10

when i was a kid in the fifties the local preacher used to call
on us my mother used to make us hide under the windows
cause when he did not get an answer to the door he would look in our windows if he ever got in our house he would talk for hours and even worse he ate our biscuits.

Answer 11

I have heard of people hurt in the name of religion,but not by religion.