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Yeah reality has a way of wakin one upAs comfortable and nice as it was, I just don't want to live in a rose colored stained glass house anymore.
Fantastical Religion was certainly alive in my mind alright and it felt real good, but it conflicted with reality too much to the point that I started to think it wasn't very healthy to stay with the fantasy and puppetry.
The reality check is like getting a hammer smacked in your faceYeah reality has a way of wakin one up
It does. Not as comfortable either nor as satisfying, but there is a type of draw that reality offers that playing pretend simply cannot provide, and that is a solid footing and realizing ones place among something that defies even the imagination on its best day.Yeah reality has a way of wakin one up
I never really left my religion, I just disassociated myself from it for a long time, almost 30 years. I would not say it was because of 1, 2, or 3, because I always retained belief in my religion and in God, I just fell away for personal reasons, as I was very busy in life with college and my career pursuits, and I also had many personal issues to resolve before I could feel worthy of calling myself a Baha'i.What’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
4: I leave a religious group if they impose their interpretation of the teaching on me OR if they show contempt otherwise by pretending that my belief is inferior and/or their belief is superiorWhat’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
At about age 14 I found no one actually knew what they were talking about, which rather let all the magic out of the proceedings.What’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
Want is goodIt wasn't a religion and I wanted a religion.
I think once somebody finds number three the rest don’t really matter. As far as the teachings go I was raised to not hate so I didn’t have a problem with any of that. Sadly I guess I can see where someone might hate their whole life because they read it in a book.
there was an obvious headnodding to anything offered by those in clothWhat’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
What’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
4. OtherWhat’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
Christianity I left as it was horrible for me. I was a Southern Baptist, on a path to become a pastor, I had a lot of inner turmoil, severe depression, I was tormented with dreams of going to hell, and things only kept getting worse. I wanted to die and prayed god would let it be. Getting educated outside of the highly insular world I was in started to crack my faith, as I learned so much of what I was taught was wrong. I turned to the Bible for guidance but the violence, genocide, rape, and other atrocities committed by god and those he ordered to commit them was another harsh blow to my faith. And my life kept getting worse.
I still remember thinking to myself, making the choice between the god and church I had always known and what was up until then the only thing I really knew, amd putting that all behind me.
Amd I found there is some truth to that idea of needing that religion and god for morality, because once I gave it up the uptight, prudish ways came to an abrupt end. I got into music like Pantera and White/Rob Zombie, started going to Ozzfest, started cussing, guilt free sexual thoughts and masturbation, and my personal library grew exponentially even as all the Christian stuff was discarded.
What’s the biggest reason people leave religions?
Is it:
1. They disagree with the religions teachings?
2. They believe that God doesn’t exist?
3. They have found their own spiritual path?
4. Other
biggest for me is #3
Yeah reality has a way of wakin one up
No.Have you considered marriage to a pastor who believes as you do?
Cool story.They start by believing the bible.
Then they assume that pastors (educated) know more about the bible than they do.
Then they realize that pastors don't follow Jesus.
For example, Reverend Robert Schuller only allowed rich parishioners, and his son was recently photographed with booze in one arm, a scantily clad blonde woman in the other arm, and his pants down with his penis hanging out in public.
Another example is Reverend Jim Bakker and Tammy Fay Bakker, who stole donated money that should have helped starving Africans so that they could live in their mansion (in their lawyer's name).
After being disillusioned by pastor after pastor, they abandon the religion because they realize that it is not the path to heaven, but the path to hell (making war, torture camps, etc.).