I went home and prayed and I honestly thought I found God. By Sadie Trombetta. Years after I left the church I was raised in, I went back while visiting mom. Despite my feelings, I think I could describe myself as a Secular Christian. They also refused to deal with conflict. I vividly recall the realization one day that there were people at my church that weren't just there because they had been dragged there by parents, and that they actually took what seemed to be obvious nonsense very seriously. They accused us of being stingy and talked badly about us. Things were getting weird. Lent, for example, is just long enough for most people to actually kill a bad habit (look up "extinction burst"), so if you can stick to it, it's a good excuse for self-improvement. I think you can be a decent person without following a religion so I feel not as if I'd lost something. I was also raised Catholic, and still consider myself so, and can identify with you. I stopped being religious after my life got turned upside down, and that's probably the worst way to do it because it was a revenge for how life turned out. Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois ⦠I even went to Christian summer camp again and prayed to God, but inside, I just felt so empty and hollow. I used to question all the rules. Some redditors believe that using religion to explain why bad things happen in the world can further confuse children. more >>, Comment replies consisting solely of images will be removed. “Stuff about ghosts and/or heaven turns most parents away,” SharkReceptacles says, “because they’d prefer their kid to grasp the reality of the situation fully before they introduce puzzling elements.”, The books that SharkReceptacles recommends are Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, which “deals with grief, loss and general sadness with blistering honesty” and Sue Varley’s Badger’s Parting Gifts, which “encourages those left behind to concentrate on all the lessons the older, wiser deceased taught them in life.”, SharkReceptacles added, “My parents are atheists and my best friend died when we were 10 years old. These days, I've pretty much given up trying to go back. As I went and really started listening and thinking on what I was being told. [â]mochi_crocodile 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children), I remember when I was young I was thought: "Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.". We didn't tithe very much because we were going through a really rough financial patch and we couldn't afford it, not because we were being stingy. I thought we would just take a nice walk and appreciate nature. While I can empathize with them feeling that way, I can't say I understand or share that feeling. I imagined it would all seem irrelevant to a supreme being like God. [â]NottyScotty 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). I just really reached the point where I couldn't reconcile church and science. Around the time I was 15, I became depressed/unhappy with life cause things went slightly to shit then. So unlike most people for the sake of argument I'm willing to accept pretenses that differ from my view, which allows me to have debates about religious philosophy without trying to deal with the issue of whether or not the religion is correct. Because it'll be warm and we'll know people there? We're stuck because of our mere humanity and there's no way around it. [â][deleted] 10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (8 children), [â]gogojack 12 points13 points14 points 5 years ago (7 children), [â][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (6 children), [â]gogojack 12 points13 points14 points 5 years ago (5 children), [â]gogojack 7 points8 points9 points 5 years ago (0 children), [â]captain_green 1590Answer Link158 points159 points160 points 5 years ago (26 children), I got tired of all the rules. [â]Ymir_from_Saturn 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (0 children). But death is harps, god and angels when adults consider their own. Rather than viewing it as a story about a man with great faith, I realized it was literally a pissing contest between God and Satan where God allowed Satan to torture Job. Please donât confuse her and let her think for one second that is not true. At least not on the same level. We don't have a long life compared to the universe so it's up to each of us to make the best of it. Didn't believe any of it, [â]lordsoup 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). So i eventually gave up on it. Then I applied that same concept to Christianity. [â]BlownHappyKid 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). [/serious. more >>, Askreddit is not your soapbox, personal army, or advertising platform. Both my parents hated going to church as kids, so they never made us go to church. Every moment with her was a happiness I couldnât even imagine until she came crashing into our world.”. That's a problem with most "ism"s. They only way for there to an ism is to have an "us" and a "them", followed by constant cheerleading / manipulating to keep us from going back to them. The redditor wrote that there’s one book called Waterbugs and Dragonflies that touches upon an afterlife, and almost no one buys it. If you're not reading that without the presumption of God being good, there's no way you wouldn't think he was evil. Show me a guy that can walk on water and I'll show up to church. One of the most practical responses came from Reddit user SharkReceptacles, a children’s bookseller who has seen the many different ways death is approached in storybooks. [â]MyBobaFetish 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (0 children). He would constantly pressure me to take off my shirt and let him feel my boobs, or let him finger me or whatever. The biggest thing that gets me is that if the money going towards religion in the US went towards something that was actually helping people(vs using only a tiny portion of their wealth to help people, as most churches do), there would be enough to pay for all US welfare and shelter all of the homeless with enough left over to do good in other countries/fix the education system etc. Seems unlikely. I didn't shout my beliefs from the rooftops or anything, it was just there. When was the moment you realized your workplace was toxic? [â]sirblastalot 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). I want to believe. It wouldn't be so bad if most churches functioned like a library and allowed you to build your own belief on the numerous writings they stored without bias. Another one is how, and to quote Dr. House, "if you talk to God you're religious but if God talks to you, you're psychotic." I've read the Bible both old and new testament, I've read all about different faiths, Baha'i, Islam, Judaism, and tons of sects of Christianity. We will never know. However I do believe in angels, I just don't believe in organized religion. I was honestly a bit of a zealot. Cupp recently put out a video describing how she has been welcomed among conservatives even though she is ⦠From the Pew Research poll, we can see Redditâs user base is primarily white non-Hispanic, coming in at 70 percent of Redditâs users in the United States. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. the first thing that turned me against religion was when my dad told me "anyone who's not Muslim will go to hell." I feel like I can see everything clearer now. My parents have now changed but still, that event changed me forever. As an adult, I tried going to church again. There's no way for us to verify the difference. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. I don't want to base my beliefs around a way to console myself. Spirituality becomes me shaping God in my image, rather than the other way around. She would grab her wheelchair and be smiling while going down the street. “Heck, blast ‘Keg on My Coffin’ and dance on the bar for me,” she wrote. My mom on the other hand wasn't as bad, but she always said the reason kids like me were "bad" then and nowadays (and she still says this) is cause we dont have the fear of god. I guess by definition I am agnostic or whatever the label is. [â]SurroundedByCrazy789 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). Once realized there is no going back. What do they stand to gain? Once I got away (college) I came into the light and saw that religion hurt my mental well being. Faith isn't something I can have. I even got a blessing from the Bishop at Christmas, and I didn't burst into flames! And we can't take for granted what's presented to us is what it appears to be. I could not accept the idea that I am somehow broken. I was active in my church. Most people are religious because they are brought up that way. Religion obviously has nothing to do with logic, but as a child I examined it logically and found it to be humans bullshitting themselves to make themselves feel better about death. I guess Christians better step it up a notch, [â]Agnimukha 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (0 children). I do like the nice bits of religion though. I want to feel loved by creation, to know that when all is said and done I'll be rewarded. How do you stop comparing your life to others and stop the cycle of envious, bitterness, and jealousy? I understood the attachment to ritual and symbolism, I just didn't get why people needed to have their morals enforced by a higher power. My problem became that a lot of the people I would be at church with seemed to be trying to be the holiest by being the loudest singers, the most outspoken at praying, etc. I know religion is an important and vital part of life for a lot of people, and that they would feel lost without it. That's not God." At the age of 6. I was quite religious as a child because the people I was surrounded with in church were really cool and open-minded. Atheist parents shared how they approached the hard topic of death with their children. But they need to have a real, concrete justification. I was raised in essentially a cult. I taught Sunday school. I've never been religious, but I did go through a spiritual phase in middle school. Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said his party will oppose the state government's bill on religious conversions in the state assembly. I was up late crying and I fell asleep crying. [â]beautyinherdays 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children), As a child (5-12 years old) i was forced to wake up at 5 AM to be able to go to early mass before school and then was forced to stay up late to receive late night mass which was at 10 pm, [â]DEEEPFREEZE 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). I was 11. https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm, [â][deleted] 110Answer Link10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (0 children), I wish I could believe in religion, but every religion has gaping holes and inconsistencies and I can't lie to myself like that, [â]LuLusiPad 110Answer Link10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (5 children). For a year or more I was really into Christianity. Yo no comprende man. Be nice to each other and all that. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 21265 on r2-app-083fd3fc3a9e7cfd6 at 2021-01-06 11:10:40.163438+00:00 running 15b6a67 country code: US. There's no accountability except to myself and those I love. Because I can't believe in something based on blind faith alone. This is the Nonreligious Channel at Patheos, home of smart, engaging commentary across the full range of freethought. Then I thought, well, what really controls ones' religion? July 21, 2015. start slideshow. Now the whole institution of Religion creeps me out, it seems like people constantly sacrilegiously abuse it for their own gains and manipulate people who turn to it for answers for power/wealth/status. [â]Reinheardt 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children), Went to catholic school, really wanted to believe it, though but I would learn what I wanted to know. [â]Jumboperson 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). âNones have been on the march for a long time now,â Burge said. Serious posts For the most part, the organized religions that I'm exposed to are very positive. What I do know is that for many people religion is poison. [â]lostmuhfaith 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children). In 50 years they probably will have all moved on from anti-gay stuff and will try to white wash their history. And there are so many things that it clearly says I should do that would make me a horrible person. I stopped caring after I was confirmed. I was done. Your first sentence strikes a chord with me. Why should I believe in God/Jesus/Allah any more than Zeus? I had no feeling of connection to God when I prayed. But I just had an epiphany of sorts. It's both a law and one of the commandments. [â]AlbinoHessian 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). Happened a couple years ago I guess. I eventually became Athiest, but I didn't like it. [â]collapsing_sanity 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (3 children). I have to act on the most accurate understanding of the way the world works as I have. The U.S. Secular Survey was the largest and most comprehensive data collection project about atheists and nonreligious people ever conducted. I literally could not. So you think I'd just go back to Christianity after that whole mess, but I just couldn't. I just saw no reason why god would exist at all. Yes, in the last project I was involved with â the Scientific Study of Non-Religious Belief- we had a series of blogs on methods, one of which focuses on gender and talks about a concern, in the study of non-religion and atheism, about the way in which both that field is gendered and the study of that area is ⦠I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. I wish I had a level of faith in something beyond my comprehension that I could lean on in difficult times. I don't see sufficient evidence for many of the beliefs of religion. While there are some values that still apply from when these beliefs are founded, I feel in the modern day I get a lot more philosophical solace from a motorcycle ride along the coast or an evening in the park or, in my case, studying nuclear chemistry and panspermia and (ironically enough) reading religious texts in my spare time. She passed away later on that day. I hated going and listening to the sermons because I felt like I was wasting my time doing something I didn't want to. Ehhh. He pulled out all the stops - making me feel guilty, telling me I didn't really love him or trust him, making ultimatums. Do we have an established, reliable methodology to distinguish a god from a pretender? Scientology, Christianity, Judaism, Arabic, Buddhism, Hindu, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, et al. I'm agnostic, not an atheist, so I don't care much about the choice of a religion. [â]Fimbultyr 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). He made me feel guilty by saying stuff like "So you are willing to go to heaven knowing I'll suffer in hell". With growing up I realized that they were actually an exception and got less enthusiastic about church in general. Thanks! [â]SongsOfDragons 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). [â]planet_void 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (1 child). According to some of the descriptions hell is colder than heaven. Why would he care if you have sex before getting married? Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days. He is someone who just loves on everyone. Not sure if I can be classified as non-religious. Same thing with Catholics who I'd always been taught weren't real Christians anyway. Just that a group of people, a long time ago, created a religion and decided "We don't want none of that shit here.". [â][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (1 child). As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't exist in the physical world, it doesn't exist, and I've never found anything that's convinced me otherwise. I sometimes envy those who do, and often I think that there must be something wrong with me to not believe while so many clearly do, but I just can't. Imagine if an entity who was not a god but, from our point of view, was sufficiently advanced or powerful enough to appear that way made their existence known to us. In her post titled “How to Talk to Kids About Death,” blogger Joanna Goddard wrote that she chose to describe her brother-in-law’s death to her son Toby in a practical way: “‘Uncle Scott died, which means he canât talk, eat, walk or run anymore.’ It felt a little strange to me to describe death that way, but Toby seemed to appreciate the literal description.”, Writer Tracy Moore believes that how parents explain death to kids can impact how they view their lives. He knows exactly what's on the inside already, so I don't see the point in doing certain things or saying certain words to prove something when he's already aware of how we feel and who we are. None of them make sense and I've never had a good reason to start. [â]xrm4 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children). If anything that is the greatest lesson I took away from religion, even though I now do it for different reasons. We had a great time driving around with a rented car. Unfilter. He isn't one of those overbearing Christains to everyone he meets. Simply because of how it can warp, twist, and mutilate and individual. I detoxed. Honestly, I just couldn't believe in anything anymore. [â]thriftyshane 140Answer Link13 points14 points15 points 5 years ago (8 children). [â]Scattered_Disk 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (1 child). Religious context and stories are simply not believable to a reasonable mind. So that didn't help. I'm not against religious practice though. [â]nobodyspcl 640Answer Link63 points64 points65 points 5 years ago (12 children), Because if all the bible thumpers are going to heaven I'd rather go to hell, [â]CocoPuff_Dick[S] 29 points30 points31 points 5 years ago (7 children). Because there's no such thing as god. My money doesn't go to a church, it goes to libraries or the misfortunate and I don't help people to go to heaven, I do it for the hell of it. “Because, I am not in heaven. After some time though, logic started getting through to me, and I started getting indifferent again. Now I'm pretty agnostic, [â]MightyMightyBulldog 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). © 2021 reddit inc. All rights reserved. And that makes belief in them moot. I prayed but never really had faith. To me it is only logical to only believe in things that can be proven (more or less), and I find no discomfort thinking about death. I don't need need to check with a book to see if I should treat gay people or black people, or women well. So many differing opinions on which text to use and on what interpretation of that text without valid reasons barring accident of birth (by which I mean when and where one was born which seem to determine what people deem to be true). Now that I'm an "adult" (I'm 22, I always either feel like a toddler or a senior citizen), I am still an atheist and I still think most aspects of organized religion are either childish attempts to get out of answering hard questions ("God works in mysterious ways") or corrupt attempts to control large groups of people. I actually miss religion, but I can't believe in it any more. [â]AnnaNass 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (3 children). He told me the 3 most important things in life were Family, Health and God. I don't believe. I've since taken a view of scientific skepticism towards all claims as well as a humanist perspective on how we should view the world. For me the feeling of being free from religion only grows stronger. I love reading all the stories and fables that go with a lot of faiths, but actually believing? I don't want to believe someone I love is in heaven if it isn't true- if there really is just nothingness after death I would want to believe in that instead. There was a teen couple, and the father of the daughter hated the guy. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_paradox, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hell,+MI+48169/@42.43472,-83.985,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x882334578757ad71:0xd45079770956618a, any replies that are jokes, puns, off-topic, or are otherwise non-contributory will be removed. The evidence isn't very convincing. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, God bless you. But as ive gotten older, I dont fear whoever "god" is. I hesitate to say that because it sounds like something an edgy neckbeard would say but my lack of belief was even more so when I started learning more in general. I read deeper and deeper in the Bible with my concordance handy to look up context of words in their original languages and such. Tell us about any non-violent conflict you ... WIBTA if I took over planning my own funeral from my very religious ... we need Reddit. My religious friends always seemed a bit more at ease during life's shitty moments because "there's a reason" for it, even if they don't understand it at the moment. I was very evangelical and pretty much cut out every other things in my life. I'm very thankful for this. I read the bible more than once, bought another bible for study, I wanted to be baptised, attended a church group at my college, lots and lots of stuff. Lame answer: my parents were atheists, so my brother and I were raised without religion. The second thing that made me start to drift further from religion is all of the hatred towards certain people and the hypocrisy involved with all this hatred. It's ridiculous. I was raised going to a Catholic school and forced to go to church. Sure, they didnât join me when I went on a quick kosher tour, but after that? I led Bible studies. She would go every week read the Bible every moment of free time she had. I feel similar. Honest question. She said they worked for the devil. Our mathematical proofs have become complex enough that we have to rely on computers to verify them. I grew up a Muslim, my mother being an alawit muslim, they have a lot of inherited pagan believes, pretty much everything we did was against Islam and we would go to hell. I would much rather look up to my friends and family than some guy who hasn't been around for thousands of years, or a book based on him much less. No discussion of scripture. Living in the south (of the US), it comes in handy when people try to give me shit for being an atheist. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. more >>, Soliciting money, goods, services, or favours is not allowed. Her very strict catholic parents allowed rigid adherence to church doctrine get in the way of being decent, loving human beings. But like Marilyn Manson said "You have to be saved in order to go to heaven, but you only have to be yourself to go to hell. When I was younger I tried pretty hard to make it work because of the comfort and feelings of security that religion brings, but believing was too much against my nature and I wasn't able to. It seems to me it is us determining what is or isn't good then finding lines in the text which support what we already think, so why bother with the text at all? Because when I really, really thought about it, none of it made any sense. I'm not worried about an afterlife or living up to a deity or pleasing them. My parents, parents of other teens and the mother of the guy went to the church leadership and nothing happened with it for close to 2 years. Reading the bible in full did a great deal to get me to really ask myself important questions. What gives a religious authority that authority, why could they too not be wrong as others obviously are. It's not my place, it's God's. It made me very nervous. I said where are the dinosaurs? I stopped using drugs. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. [â]Shylady333 280Answer Link27 points28 points29 points 5 years ago (4 children). When did you realize your âFriendsâ werenât actually your friends? I stopped listening to anything that wasn't Christian music or Christian talk radio. I do believe in angels and demons. Black non-Hispanic users are at 7 percent of Redditâs base in the US, Hispanic users at 12 percent, and other non ⦠Because I believe we are not responsible for who we become, the environment we grow up into shapes us into who we are. Which country you grew up in; Buddhists grow up in largely buddhist centers. [â]SoundandFurySNothing 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children). Heather McManamy recently passed away from metastatic cancer. I have several non-religious friends who had fun in Israel when we traveled there. The only reason I go to church is for my mom, with my mom. [â]Mokumer 14 points15 points16 points 5 years ago (0 children). [â]Morpheusthequiet 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children), All the seeming major religions are based off the idea that, "you believe and you go to heaven," or "you're a heathen and you're going to hell.". by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man's true nature-that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence. As I read the bible though, I started to notice what disparity there was in terms of how churches taught and behaved, and what the bible taught. [â]Skutter_ 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (4 children). Additionally, any "god" that would condemn a person to an eternity without heaven, given any existence of heaven at all, is no deity I would ever care to meet, let alone worship. Others shared the words that provided them with comfort when they lost a loved one. [â]AnnaNass 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (2 children), [â][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (1 child). I tried, for my Papa I really did. In my case, I still consider myself to be a Catholic but I don't always agree with everything said by the church. Silly, to me. Tell him he was worthless, make comments about his family (the guys parents were in the middle of a divorce), refused to allow the couple to see each other. That's the description of heaven. Only came a couple years ago. I asked her why would scientists make it up. Quickly became not worth the gamble, and -- for lack less "euphoric" way of putting it -- logic and rationality filled in the rest of the gaps over time. Obviously looking at other religions and how empty they were would prove that my faith was right... That probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. [â]Seerix 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children). I tried, but I can't. [â]juandh 220Answer Link21 points22 points23 points 5 years ago (0 children). I don't care if my relationship is godly enough. [â]thesublieutenant 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). I do believe in God, but I really don't think he cares about all the "rules". [â]oneburntwitch 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children). Can't make myself believe it when I just don't. My mother always loved the community but would get in trouble when she questioned the reasons for things and tough me to think it through. Thanks for your cooperation and enjoy the discussion! Do you mean not believing in a god or just not being a big fan of church. What dark moment in a kid show threw you off-guard? They amputated her leg. Religious differences don't always spell doom for relationships, but they can lead to arguments and tensions. Until then I am an atheist. (12 or so). Because most religions conflict with my core beliefs for full human/civil rights and social justice. Like most people who are deeply religious, I have had experiences which seem to necessitate the absence or at least nonintervention of a god. I've never been able to believe "something" or "someone" being all powerful and having been responsible for life and how we're supposed to live it. If you open your mind to beliefs other than your own and [temporarily] accept them as absolute fact, suddenly the behavior of the rest of the world seems very familial and quaint. Reddit user swordstool shared Heather’s letter in Reddit’s Atheism community, and it sparked a complex discussion about explaining death to children when you don’t believe in an afterlife. No amount of praying helped. I was raised in the church and eventually helped lead worship services and teach Sunday school to kids. Some things this creator created, are really sweet and could do no wrong. And that's how it started, how I started questioning why I was part of the Catholic religion. 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