... has anything in your religion ever felt just plain wrong to you? Something that just didn't sit right?
If so, were you encouraged to question this, or told to hush up and believe what you were told?
What did you do? Did you try to come to terms with it? Ignore the bad feeling? Change religions?
2007-09-15 09:05:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, the entire Old Testament. So much hate there. I am now Wiccan
2007-09-15 09:12:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Yes. A while back I was very upset with the niddah laws since, as an Orthodox female, when I am married I will be expected to follow them. Niddah laws are family purity laws--a couple cannot have sex for the days a woman has her period plus a certain number of days afterwards, plus the days it takes her to go to the mikveh (ritual purity bath) to get cleansed. Learning of this led me to learn of the laws regarding childbirth, which made me so angry--when a woman has a boy, she can't be with her husband for a certain amount of time, but when a woman has a girl, that certain amount of time is much longer! And this really annoyed me because I felt it was really sexist and felt that Judaism was really discriminating towards women, here. However, I was encouraged to ask and find out WHY these laws are this way, get a few different opinions even, until I found the reason. I searched, I read, I asked my rabbi, finally, and he explained it this way: Judaism recognizes the special relationship between a mother and a daughter. The thought is that when a son is separated from his mother's body it's much different than the loss she feels from being separated from her daughter. I'm not as eloquent as he is, but yes, I definitely came to terms with it. The niddah laws, however, are something I'm still gearing myself towards observing--but that's only because they're hard.
Peace :-)
2007-09-15 21:25:14 · answer #2 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Formerly religious)
A lot about my religion felt "not quite right." Some things felt outright wrong. Some things felt fine.
For the most part, sometimes I was basically told to hush up and believe what I was told, sometimes people would act as if they were encouraging questioning, but would then continue with the "you just need to have faith." I was never really given straight answers about the things I questioned. Eventually, I realized that the silence, and the "just have faith" was just a polite way of telling me to just shut up and believe what I was told.
2007-09-15 16:39:17 · answer #3 · answered by Jess H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lots of it feels just plain wrong. When I ask about it, I get such ignorant answers, I just finally decided it was all hooey.
Too many contradictions in the Bible. Starting with the two different accounts in Genesis. Was Eve created from dust to be equal to Adam or was she taken from his side to be subservient? That is a pretty important difference to me, a woman.
How could the Bible be God's word and yet have so many contradictions throughout? Just doesn't make sense.
And why would I be born sinful because Adam ate an apple? And then God kills his only son to forgive ME for Adam eating that apple. Does that really make sense to anybody?
2007-09-15 16:16:00 · answer #4 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I was brought up in a catholic family, so a couple of things spring instantly to mind:
My aunt was in a very abusive relationship and asked her priest what she could do about it. He told her that she had to stay with him, she wasn't allowed to separate, let alone divorce!
My dad worked away from home and my mum was looking after us 3 children on her own. My dad was coming home for a break and my mum asked her priest (a different one) if she could use contraceptives just once, as she couldn't cope with any more kids. He said no!!!
There are many more stupid examples like this, but these are the first 2 that came up. Needless to say, I am an atheist!
.
2007-09-15 16:16:13 · answer #5 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The attitude of some Christians towards women. I was told that the "women are inferior and more sinful" thing was God's will, and/or "just the way things are".
In the end I left Christianity, in large part because of that very issue. I found Wicca much more inclusive and accepting of the inherent power and value of women.
2007-09-15 16:14:56 · answer #6 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Everything said in the name of religion is not necessarilty 'truth'. However, most religions aim at making all of us better human beings and preach us to adopt good virtues. We are just as much religious as we follow and absorb these good virtues in our life. In short, religious is in following and not just believing.
2007-09-15 16:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Madhukar 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I changed religions and i feel great. I just don't believe there is a god, so i switched to Atheism. I just find the whole christianity crap as a big popular fairy tale.
2007-09-15 22:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I felt it was wrong when my church was giving creationism stories to explain matters of nature and science to counter the contradicting evidence brought forth by science so I am now a happy atheist.
2007-09-15 16:11:51 · answer #9 · answered by Tom 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋
A lot did. I disagreed with Christianity on so much - abortion, censorship, sex before marriage, etc. Also so much in the Buybull is against science, logic and common sense. I became an atheist. Feels so much better, and makes a lot more sense.
2007-09-15 16:10:19 · answer #10 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋