so you could live this blissfully happy life that religious people do? Or do you think that religious people know it is all man made really but pretend otherwise?
2007-06-17 07:19:46 · 22 answers · asked by thethinker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
jbone907-Ha ha!
2007-06-17 07:23:41 · update #1
Sometimes. I guess I'm still getting over my recent conversion from Christianity to Atheism. Honestly, knowing that I would spend an eternity in some heaven was very satisfying. It was like my own escape from reality. Whenever I was feeling down I would just remember that this life was the smallest fraction of eternity and that all would be better one day. Nowadays I just feel as if I will always be missing something...I will never be completely satisfied. Because the only thing that could bring back that feeling would be living for eternity.
2007-06-17 07:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't see a lot of "blissfully happy" religious people. Most of them that I've known are too worried about making people happy at church, keeping up appearances and things like that to be what I'd call happy. Whether they really know that it's all man made, that's the way a lot of them act, including many of the preachers, etc., who will oftentimes use their position to milk their followers for anything from money to sex and everything in between.
So, no, I don't wish that.
2007-06-17 07:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by gehme 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lol Actualy I have thought about that.
I'm 17...you know...experiment stuff.
And I Almost fell into this religious lifestyle with a religion, or cult I don't know, called Raelism.
It all started with this french guy who supposedly went into an alien spaceship and he was told that human like aliens wrote the bible and gave origin to humans.
I did start looking at trees differently and looking at the stars differently. And this was in between my atheism.
However I started thinking critically about what the religion asserts and it really doens't fit my head. I always had this skeptic inside me.
I now find it very hard to fall into something like this again.
And, as long as the person is having a happy life, good for them. I live my live as happy as Christians or Scientologists.
The religious beliefs are actually secondary I think.
2007-06-17 07:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Excellent question. Yeah, sometimes I really do envy the ability of theists to shut off the rational and analytical parts of their minds and enjoy a blissfully ignorant life where all the answers are conveniently provided. Where you don't have to worry about death or make your own decisions about how to live.
It sounds kind of like a lifetime of childhood. Who in their right mind wouldn't envy that every now and then?
2007-06-17 07:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't need religion for anything, so why try or wish that i could be religious?
I can't force myself to believe something that isn't true, so i will not even try.
As for religious people's real beliefs, it depends. Someone could just be seeking strength from God and apart that be unreligious, but there obviously are people who agree with every bit of their religion. And well, i don't know any religious people who would live more happily than me because of their belief in God.
2007-06-17 07:26:48 · answer #5 · answered by difiCa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes, but it's not in me. I think religious people do believe in a a way. I also think that some of their life must be sorely lacking to need the crutch of religion. I also believe a few just like the camaraderie of other people. I would think Christians all have different reasons.
2007-06-17 07:25:26 · answer #6 · answered by punch 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist, and I already lead a reasonably happy life, blissful or not. I was born into exceptionally good circumstances, and I have never needed anything and had it not be made available to me. Life is good, but even if it was not, I have no desire to be a fool, believing in the illogical and insane.
2007-06-17 07:36:45 · answer #7 · answered by manic.fruit 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You make the assumption believers are blissfully happy.
No I don't see ever going back. I am happier with not trying to find god, and the realization there really isn't one.
2007-06-17 07:31:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's funny. I know more happy athiests than happy religious people. In fact, the two most unhappy people I know, are religious. The rest of us actually take matters into our own hands and make ourselves happy, instead of waiting for the imaginary fairy in the sky to wave a wand and make it not hurt anymore.
2007-06-17 07:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by jbone907 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
At one point I wanted to but thats because I was young and everyone I looked up to had religion. Now I'm quite happy without it I have a full life and I'm as happy as I can be for now.
2007-06-17 07:25:54 · answer #10 · answered by lilli 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋