2007-04-04 09:17:24 · 19 answers · asked by Myaloo 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even not believing in it anymore, conservative Christianity has a negative effect on my life. I have to say the absolute hugest thing for me is not being able to legally marry the woman I love, bar none, but there are other things. It causes shows I might enjoy to be taken off the air because they offend someone else and magazines I want to read to be covered up or made unavailable. It has caused rifts with my family. It made me throw out some really sweet late-80s/early-90s hip-hop that was very expensive to replace. There's more, but that's off the top of my head.
2007-04-04 09:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being told by a Born Again Christian that my father must have done something horrible to have died so young, and now he was burning in Hell. That definitely qualifies as a "negative impact". Ultimately, however, it helped me leave Christianity behind and find a spiritual path that made sense to me (and that didn't include the angry, vengeful, "Do what I say or I'll punish you forever" abusive parent of a God), so even out of that evil, some good was found.
2007-04-04 16:28:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was raised christian until high school and started asking questions that no one could answer and i got labeled everything from a trouble maker to a satanist, and other things that would be edited out by yahoo if i typed them here, for asking questions about the bible. I was not being a smart *** i had honest questions and got no answers so i went elsewhere and found the answers and the truth for myself.
There is much more detail to it but that sums it up.
science does not have all the answers yet but at least they are working productively instead of believing something just because the bible says so.
Science would be much farther ahead if it was not for the church holding it up and calling it heresy.
2007-04-04 16:27:32 · answer #3 · answered by Melanie T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While you may call me a deist (meaning that I believe in the existence of a supreme being), I do not subscribe or participate in any of the common "activities" of "organized religion." That doesn't mean I'm not a moral or spiritual person.
But you asked about "negative impact."
It has been my extreme displeasure to have experienced FIRST HAND, the ugly underbelly of ultra-conservative religion. I'm talking about a group of people behaving like the most mindless of drones, following a "self-ordained" minister on a "hate mission" against select social groups.
These religious demonstators and their "leader" believed that the Lord gave them total license to get up in people's faces and literally insult them; not just with scripture, but with invectives and slurs.
Thankfully, our justice system does not support their sense of "license."
This group has been served with citations numerous times and their leader has gone to court, where a justice has explained to him where the LINE exists between "witnessing" and "harassment."
This may be America, but there are limits to freedom of speech.
2007-04-04 16:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion has had only positive impacts on my life. The only thing that has had a negative impact is intolerance and religious exclusivism. But these do not have to be a part of religion.
2007-04-04 16:24:24 · answer #5 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I was a kid, my mother made me give part of my allowance to tithes. I could've used that on cookies and chips. In my early teens, religion stopped making sense to me and I abandoned it, so it doesn't impact me at all anymore.
2007-04-04 16:22:31 · answer #6 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None, really - it's been pretty much irrelevant. Religion isn't a part of life for most people where I live.
2007-04-04 16:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sick of labels. Human intellect labeling him or berating her, is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. The word I am looking for here is "busybodies", we are all guilty, but some of us are more aware of sensitive subjects than others.
We are all humans, and we all struggle to search for our own meanings and/or purpose in life.
One.
2007-04-04 16:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I constantly looked for God to be the solution to my sorrows. I thought that if I believed more, prayed harder, gave up more stuff, etc. God would eventually make me happy. It got to the point where I thought God wanted me to read the Bible so I read it.
Once I read it I realized that God didn't exist and that stuff happens to people. I took control of my happiness. I also learned about the nature of things and that things are only good or bad if you see them that way. Since realizing this I have been happy. I haven't had one sad day since.
2007-04-04 16:23:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've spent years getting in trouble for arguing with family (based on "honor thy mother and father" i.e. "your elders" garbage) while they freely engaged in racist and homophobic speech. Only my dearly departed grandmother had the wisdom and kindness to say I was right, but while I was right, as a kid I had "no right?" to tell them they were wrong... go figure.
Oh that and the fact that I hated myself because I thought I was a freak who was going to go to some hell that made NO sense to me...
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2007-04-04 16:21:48 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋