Can someone be happy that doesn't have God in their life?
Isn't a firm belief system important to making a person feel content and that someone more powerful than he is controls the way the world is headed?
Matthew 5:Chapter has the happinesses.
Happy are those conscience of their spiritual need? Do you think that is true?
2007-06-24 01:52:41 · 11 answers · asked by Steven 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes its essential. you make yourself happy so i would say what ever your ideals are if they make you happy you are gonna be happy. your beliefs included religion and all that. Spirituality brings many things that also create happiness so one can say they go hand in hand.
2007-06-27 13:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by WonderWoman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I'm quite easy to please. Give me the occasional bar of chocolate, reasonable weather, some sports on the tv, a good book or two and a few friends to pass the days with and I'm remarkably happy.
I actually think that a lot of people become religious precisely because they're not naturally happy people and they do need something to change their brain chemistry. Some do it with drugs (whether legal or otherwise) and some get religion. Often though they slide back into depression, as you'll frequently see from messages here that ask why God doesn't seem to like them/help them/talk to them/give them the comfort he once did etc.
2007-06-24 02:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by EZSum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Those who are infinitely free are also free to being happy infinitely. I think happiness is important for spirituality. When you are true and happy, you begin to awaken from the dream and chaos. Or when you Are free, you approach spirituality. I don't approach it, the spirituality approaches me!
I still don't approach it. How can you think that the supreme state of mind is not related to all the rest? When you're in that supreme state, things just are as they are needed to be. Was it that you percieved God or not, percieved body or not, said that or did not say that and so on. How do the spiritual ones write?
2007-06-24 10:10:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I find that reason and logic are important to my happiness. Reason and logic tell me that if someone more powerful (i.e. a god) is controlling the way the world is headed, based on events throughout history, we are in deep trouble.
Reason and logic also tell me that I mustn't kill someone (I could be executed for it), I mustn't steal (I could be imprisoned for it), I shouldn't cheat on my husband (he is a good man and doesn't deserve that kind of treatment), etc etc etc
But I'm sure you get the picture.
And by the way, because of my disbelief, I don't have the added advantage of thinking that I can do all these nasty little things and be forgiven for them by a higher power just by asking, so I have all the more reason to abide by any logical standards I may set for myself.
2007-06-24 02:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is a state of mind.Spirituality may contribute towards it but is not all inclusive,Look at a bunch of Happy children,laughing and playing without a care in the world.They know no GOD and any spirituality.Natural state of all living being is peace and happiness except brief intervals of pain and sufferings.Logically speaking,most of our sufferings are MAN MADE than by other causes.
2007-06-24 02:26:57 · answer #5 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. No. people are either happy or unhappy, irrespective of religion.
2. Sorry. It would not make me happy to believe that some supernatural imaginary sky-god can read my thoughts and is controlling my life. Certainly not the god of the old testament. he's one brutal savage in my book.
3. Being spiritual does not require religion... and certainly not organized religion.
2007-06-24 01:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can't be truly happy. God is joy in the soul. It's a happiness that comes from within and is noticed by all. Some just aren't sure what it is.
2007-06-24 01:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-18 12:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about God, but you definitely have to be spiritual to achieve happiness
2007-06-24 01:59:57 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Owl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God in your life makes some people happy, but it is not a pre-requisite for happiness.
2007-06-24 01:56:56 · answer #10 · answered by =42 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋