Can you see any ways in which religion might hinder you in your daily life?

Answer 1

I think it might put a cap on how creative one can be..... but I can't see how religion would affect my everyday activities of gambling, drinking, having sex.

Answer 2

Can I see any ways in which religion might hinder me in my daily life?

I thought long and hard for about a second and a half, and, no, dear heart, I assure you that religion hinders me in no way a'tall. Not even the clanging bells trouble me any longer, now that the huge mega Baptist church moved to the suburbs where the wacko rightwing white folks live.

Answer 3

This depends on whether you are a believer in Jesus, or a lost soul. Christianity is better referred to as a relationship, not a religion. Religion is man reaching out to God, Christianity is God reaching out to man. Christians have peace knowing that we have a home in heaven waiting for us. KNOWING that keeps you from fear. Obeying Jesus' commands are not burdensome, or restrictive once you have faith in Him, because you know He wants the best for you.
Any religion other than Christianity should not be bothersome. A pagan has chosen against God, so while he is still alive, he can enjoy all the pleasures and sin the world offers. Hell will be a little worse for some, but all who deny Christ, must end up there.

Answer 4

Yeah, when you take things literally. Speaking as someone who is well educated in the new testament, I can tell you that they were not written to be a biography of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. It all depended on which audience it was intended for. That's why you'll see a lot of "borrowed" pagan stories associated with Jesus. The story of the nativity in Bethlehem was intended for the Jews who prophesied that the Messiah would be born in the same city as David. Other gospels don't mention it because it would have no meaning to others groups, such as the Romans.

Answer 5

Religion is a way of life. I wonder how can it hinder in daily life?

Answer 6

Religion encourages magical thinking and discourages questioning and doubt which are critical to the scientific method. Religion encourages gullibility and blind acceptance which can impact people’s daily lives in a myriad of ways, e.g. they’re more likely to fall victim to con artists or others that see them as easy prey, or waste their money and time on pseudoscience and the paranormal.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
— Bertrand Russell

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
— F. L. Lucas

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
— Katha Pollitt

Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
— Dan Barker

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
— Arthur C. Clarke

The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
— Catholic Church's decision against Galileo Galilei

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
— Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— Galileo Galilei

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
— Sophocles

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
— Richard Dawkins

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion.
— Dewey Henize

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
— Galileo Galilei,

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
— Galileo Galilei,

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
— Ferdinand Magellan

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is only too palpable.
— Sigmund Freud

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of lunacy.
— David Brooks

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
— Galileo Galilei

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
— Galileo Galilei

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
— Marcus Aurelius, (121-180)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
— Madam Curie:

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
— Will Durant

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
— Nietzsche

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
— Ludwig von Mises, (1881-1973)

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, it is a matter of faith, and above reason.
— John Locke (1632-1704)

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
— Somerset Maugham

Answer 7

Depends on the religion.
If it was a religion that compelled me to give 90% of my money to some church or directed me to kill unbelievers, that might cramp my style some.
But my personal religious beliefs do not hinder me. Instead, they help me make better decisions and avoid potential problems. This makes life easier, not more difficult.

Answer 8

Not really. I see religion as the way I live my life, not a set of rules. I never feel compelled to do anything that would be outright horrible anyway.

Answer 9

this defies the reason it was created. Religion was created to make order out of chaos, so how can it hinder you?How could God create something that would make life difficult for his own creation. Religion is a constitution for man, if followed, life will be peaceful.

Answer 10

Let me think about this... I wanna put the moves on this girl, but I have latent guilt about my sexuality due to a strict catholic upbringing. This leads to lack of confidence, which leads to her thinking I'm a loser, which leads to NO SEX.

Well, this doesn't actually happen to me, but I'm sure it's happened to others. On the other hand, I bet there's plenty of people who have hit the road as soon as they find out someone's not willing to sleep with them until they're married. I'd call that a hindrance.

Answer 11

If you are living your life as God wants you to then no. But if you are doing things that you know are wrong or immoral than yes obviously you will struggle with your conscience or you will have guilt in your heart.