does not being religious affects somones life?

Answer 1

It does!!! Learn your religion to the fullest and follow the principles to the best. Religions have always preached about maintaining a state of harmony within the society. They preach about do's and don't of life, good and bad, right and wrong, sin and fair, etc. The problem is that instead of following these ethics, we prefer to just make it up by worshipping a particular name and call ourselves religious.

All the best...

:-)

Answer 2

Can't see how not being religious should affect anyone other than yourself. I think religion should be a personal matter anyway. People should accept you for who you are. But problem is once you say you are not religious some would try and convert you to a particular path. Thinking you need their "help" or their "love". The point is it is no ones business if you want to be religious or not. You are free to believe what you want.

Answer 3

Not taking care of one's spiritual side has definately been shown to have negative effects. For more details, I highly recommend reading (online) these 3 articles:

1 Why Care About Spiritual Things? :
- Spirituality and Your Well-Being
- A Positive Link
2 How You Can Satisfy Your Spiritual Needs :
- True Religion Promotes Spirituality
- The Bible---A Reliable Guide to Spiritual Health
- Is It Worth the Effort?
http://watchtower.org/e/20040201/article_01.htm

3 How to Find Real Happiness
- Think of Your Spiritual Needs
- Keep your Life Simple
- Happiness and Self-Worth
- Hope--Vital to Happiness http://watchtower.org/library/w/2001/3/1/article_02.htm

Answer 4

If religious means that you lead a life that aspires to spiritual holiness and geared towards pleasing God instead of yourself...yes. It changes you from the inside out so to NOT be that way, can bring all sorts of chaos into your life that would not be if you'd lived holy.

For some, religious can mean just going through the motions of 'church'. People like that tend to only change on the surface.

Answer 5

Being religious and not being religious is the same. Both are believers. Believeing comes out of faith. Faith comes when there are no logical conclusions and the only way left is to do what you feel.
So either you got to know everything or have faith... atleast in something, anything. Offcourse anything you believe has to affect you..... either positively or negatively.

Answer 6

As a Christian it affects someones life if you are more religious than you are being a Christian and witnessing both verbally and non-verbally.

Not being religious and being a Christian may be more effective.

Not being religious at all and not a Christian affects mostly you and where you will end up in eternity.

Answer 7

That is impossible to answer hun. Of course, I believe that having or not having a belief affects your life, but I am a Christian...others may feel much differently.

It's a personal choice and decision in my estimation.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 8

Hope.

We search for an explanation of things we were not around to see.
What does the future hold? 6,000 yrs. of trying and we still can't solve problems facing us. More of the same is hopeless. To know from the Bible that the Supreme Being will intervene and bring about profound changes for the better gives us hope.

Answer 9

Yes
- we get Sundays off
- we get pestered by idiots telling us we're going to hell (like it really bothers me being told I'm going somewhere I know doesn't exist after I'm dead and past caring)
- we get to think for ourselves and develop our common sense
- we keep all of the money we earn (or give whatever portion of it we choose to whatever worthy cause(s) we select). What we don't see is some preacher driving around in a limo paid for out of our wages
- we get to have sensible discussions about life, science, art etc etc without some idiot quoting from the bible every five minutes
- we get to live without the hypocrisy and arrogance of thinking we're somehow special because we were created in the image of a mythical being. Instead we know that we're intimately related to all other living things through millions of years of evolution and that it's just by chance that for a few brief millenia we happen to be top dog on this planet we're busily destroying

Answer 10

I try not to let my religious beliefs and practice affect other's lives. I believe that religion and faith are personal matters. However, my faith does encourage me to view others with compassion and good-will. So I suppose my religion affects the way that I treat others, which would affect other's lives.