Lightkeeper
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Would a religious person who is comforted by the knowledge and companionship of God tend to be less lonely than an atheist?
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Religion and Lonliness
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Well, yes AND no. An extremist may be content knowing they are with their God, whilst in the same token there are several "Christian dating sites" (one linked to from RF http://www.christiansoulmates.com/?AffiliateID=611 ) and many christian social groups.
I think it is up to the person themselves how they want to socialise, but they can be either lonly or happy.
I think it is up to the person themselves how they want to socialise, but they can be either lonly or happy.
cardero
Citizen Mod
I believe it depends on many things. It depends on the person, it depends on how well you K(NOW) GOD and it depends on how accurate our knowledge of His TRUTHs are. Since my REALationship with GOD began I have been conflicted with my human NATURE, my past religious experiences and the beliefs and attitudes of how other people define themselves. Spiritually, I have had to divorce my wife, my family, my friends and myself. I do not state this out of sympathy nor recognition but it is very difficult to find another human entity who shares the same REALationship or knowledge I have shared with GOD. It is a very lonely perspective.
croak
Trickster
It depends. I'm Muslim and I believe in Allah, but He didn't create other people for nothing. So, loneliness depends on how sociable you are. Or on the people who are where you are (ex. School is torture. Well, I do have at least two friends, I'm guessing. But there are some people who drive you crazy. And some ignore you.).
Though remembering Allah can comfort you.
Though remembering Allah can comfort you.
Christopher Krajewski
Member
They tend to want to know about the trust which failed them more. They can clessify their loneliness as a failure at trust that way or distinguishingly go into to the physical matter that wants to understand why they fall less as fitting in.
On the other hand they will use the no excuse formula to doing badly at trust. Loneliness is like insolence to failing the law of the heart, instead of the rules for making friends, which the atheist may allow insolently.
On the other hand they will use the no excuse formula to doing badly at trust. Loneliness is like insolence to failing the law of the heart, instead of the rules for making friends, which the atheist may allow insolently.
I think (or hope) just about everyone would agree that it depends on the person as to the extent to which one would experience loneliness. Along those same lines, I do not think it is necessary for EVERYONE to need to believe in a god in order to avoid loneliness. I will accept the notion that human beings, as a whole, tend to look for an ultimate answer for all of the life's questions, and that most humans find solace in accepting that there is some divinity who is controlling everything. I have heard many reasons for making this leap, and I think it all boils down to a human drive to want to be able to have a tangible answer to every question about life. So in essence, those who believe in God are doing what is necessary for them to be happy and to justify to themselves why they should live a moral life and so forth.
However, it has been my experience that I, as well as many others, do not need to make this gargantuan assumption in order to make ourselves happy and move on with our lives. For us, reason, math, and science are enough to sustain our philosophies on life. All I'm saying is that there is more than one way to find answers to life's questions, and that a belief in an all-powerful being is not a necessity for everyone. And in my opinion, as long as you can justify it for yourself, that is all that really, matters. I think it would be highly arrogant for anyone to claim that their belief is completely right, and that anyone else's belief is completely wrong,....because no one has definitive proof about anything.
Many religous people seem to be very adamant against any atheistic views, and I think that is mainly because they feel threatened by them. Most are so set in their line of thinking, that they see it as a herecy to anyone to think anything else. I just wish more people could have an open mind and aknowledge the fact that they don't know everything, and that maybe, just maybe, atheists could have something positive to offer to the common goal of finding answers.
However, it has been my experience that I, as well as many others, do not need to make this gargantuan assumption in order to make ourselves happy and move on with our lives. For us, reason, math, and science are enough to sustain our philosophies on life. All I'm saying is that there is more than one way to find answers to life's questions, and that a belief in an all-powerful being is not a necessity for everyone. And in my opinion, as long as you can justify it for yourself, that is all that really, matters. I think it would be highly arrogant for anyone to claim that their belief is completely right, and that anyone else's belief is completely wrong,....because no one has definitive proof about anything.
Many religous people seem to be very adamant against any atheistic views, and I think that is mainly because they feel threatened by them. Most are so set in their line of thinking, that they see it as a herecy to anyone to think anything else. I just wish more people could have an open mind and aknowledge the fact that they don't know everything, and that maybe, just maybe, atheists could have something positive to offer to the common goal of finding answers.
When you don't feel love, you feel lonely. I think we all want to be accepted for who we are, to belong. Many enjoy their churches for this reason, they conform their beliefs to a group that lets them belong.
My religious practice is to shut off the mind, experience unity with God, with others, with consciousness, the universe, with emptiness. I think a truly lonely place is believing that you know the answers to save the world, if only everyone else would listen and change, "My Father, why hast Thou forsaken me" is one of the loneliest things I've ever heard.
My religious practice is to shut off the mind, experience unity with God, with others, with consciousness, the universe, with emptiness. I think a truly lonely place is believing that you know the answers to save the world, if only everyone else would listen and change, "My Father, why hast Thou forsaken me" is one of the loneliest things I've ever heard.
Christopher Krajewski
Member
I don't know. To love nature allows the state of remembering for overcoming regrets. God I believe from the church Times that VALUE better. Then as much as atheists deny it for reasons which are well regretable and worth FORGETING, they do accept leaps of Faith into some God, or then some creator. This VALUE searches the time maybe selfishly, but perhaps personally in the subjective essence.
Privacy is so BELIEVED in nowadays with computers and so forth. Therefore, my answer to the question is be happy, don't worry. Only mind the nature in symbolic virtues from the time of money-nature: that is these days; that nature really is still out of touch with the creator.:canadian:
Privacy is so BELIEVED in nowadays with computers and so forth. Therefore, my answer to the question is be happy, don't worry. Only mind the nature in symbolic virtues from the time of money-nature: that is these days; that nature really is still out of touch with the creator.:canadian: