how do atheists explain people getting over addictions with help of religion?

Question

i doubt that "false hope" has ever helped anyone overcome major problems like addictions.

Answer 1

It's just exchanging one crutch for another. Let's get real here.

Answer 2

I would say "God bless" to those of you who have won the struggle over your addictions, but I don't think this is the proper crowd LOL LOL JUST KIDDING!

Congratulations to each and every one of you. My husband also is sober 8 yrs and he was a raging alcoholic. He did go into treatment for a 2nd time, but it was my telling him (and FINALLY meaning it) that finally made him figure things out. He never has gone to an AA meeting (after that initial 30 in 30 days thing) and he is not religious at all. So you're all correct. It has to come from within a person's mind and soul. He has not traded that addiction for another. I wish I was as strong a person as each one of you--maybe I could kick my addiction to ANSWERS.

amen, let's eat.. (ok you don't have to amen--I have a warped sense of humor, yanno?)

Answer 3

Well by that logic, then Islam must be correct. If Christianity can help someone get over an addiction and that makes that true, then I suppose anyone who has used any other religion to get over an addiction is living proof of that religion.

Answer 4

They just swap their addiction to [Alcohol, Tobacco, Heroine, Cocaine, Gambling, etc] for an addiction to Prayer.

In some cases (possibly including that of George W. Bush) it isn't religion but the wife saying she'll leave and take the kids that does it but religion is given the credit because it sounds good to the pious.

Answer 5

Remeber the placebo thing? Giving people sugar pills when they were sick but telling them it was a new mirical drug? Then the patients got better (Obviously it doesn't work with cancer and stuff) but they got better because they believed they would. Yet we all know that the placebo did absolutely nothing. How does God escape this? If we believe he is helping us it can give us the strength to do something. Even though relly it is all our own doing. There's your answer: God is a placebo (if he isn't real, don't want to offend) so that's how he could possibly "help".

Answer 6

of direction it advantages specific human beings. and that i admire that. i'm going to under no circumstances initiate a non secular argument with an eighty 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old guy, who got here upon convenience in his faith all his life. Why get rid of his convenience zone? faith helps human beings. even nevertheless, it purely helps to a undeniable point. in basic terms like placebos and homeopathy purely help to a undeniable point. does no longer or no longer this is plenty extra effective for the guy in gangs, doing drugs, depressed, and so on, to conquer their issues from their own inner capability? If human beings conquer problems with counsel from a fictional god, the 2d they start to doubt that god, they are stunning returned the place they started.

Answer 7

How do religious people explain people getting over addictions without religion?

I did it.

Answer 8

If you are seriously asking, consider this. Is replacing one addiction with another truly "getting over an addiction"?

Answer 9

Religion and gods aren't necessary. People have the power to help themselves and each other. If they would rather declare themselves too weak or stupid to do it on their own, they're free to call it God instead. He's just another crutch/addiction.

Answer 10

I sit before my keyboard, sober for 24 years, never once invoking any gods. I used secular outpatient counseling, which worked faster and better than the miserable, dogmatic AA meetings I had tried.

Answer 11

Simple, I don't believe religion can work for anybody's addictions however in the off chance it does succede for that person than more power to them.