In my family, my dad woke us up very early on Sunday morning so that we could get a good breakfast in our belly, get cleaned up, and dress properly. [â]awsadno 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). [â]iAmMitten1 7 points8 points9 points 5 years ago (0 children). So, I feel closer to God, and what it is to me, not in a building. Readings for a Non-Traditional Wedding That Are a Little Bit Different. This is just my experience. I want to know that something bigger than me has a plan more glorious than I can imagine. He isn't one of those overbearing Christains to everyone he meets. My parents were Christians but only went to Church on Sundays or Christmas or Easter but never took being Religious seriously. [â]myairblaster 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (1 child). I stopped listening to anything that wasn't Christian music or Christian talk radio. He believed that truly and whole heartedly. Had zero reason to (the guy went to church, was a smart kid, he didn't deal drugs or anything like that). I understand what religion is, but it's just not everyone's jam. I just really reached the point where I couldn't reconcile church and science. Iâm here. [â]Hesher1 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (1 child). That's when I really started seeing how much infighting there was and how much disagreement there was on doctrine. This, combined with a lot of open group discussion among my close friends lead us to break away from faith as group during high school. Most people are religious because they are brought up that way. more >>, Mods reserve the right to remove content or restrict users' posting privileges as necessary if it is deemed detrimental to the subreddit or to the experience of others. 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. This has made me agnostic I don't believe there is a higher power but I don't believe there isn't. [â][deleted] 27 points28 points29 points 5 years ago (6 children). We are told that he have to believe in God without seeing proof. So on and so forth. I remember the day I knew all the drugs had left my system. Well depending on what you like to call evidence. But its 2 am and ive got a fuckton of exam prep to do. Then why would anyone "choose" to be gay. Because fairies are for children, not adults. 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. 3) coming to the conclusion by combining 1 and 2 that i didn't believe and didn't want to believe in something i couldn't explain with my love of science and wouldn't be able to ever explain. Some of the nicest people have I met are those who do not identify with religion, and some of the most judgmental and condescending people I have met are those who go to church every Sunday singing praises to Jesus. Example, if you're gay, you're going to hell. With growing up I realized that they were actually an exception and got less enthusiastic about church in general. God struck him dead with a lightning bolt for touching the ark. I had no feeling of connection to God when I prayed. Which country you grew up in; Buddhists grow up in largely buddhist centers. [â]El_Dief 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). [â]MeowMixSong 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children). Could we ever? They believed 100% they were right and everyone else was wrong, but nobody had any more evidence than the other and they can't all be right... so who was right? Until two people (my aunt and a co-worker) said something very similar to me that made it hard for me to believe in religion, especially since I needed a bit of coercing or reasoning. We're stuck because of our mere humanity and there's no way around it. So this father would go out of his way to make this kids life hell. When I was a kid, my bullshit meter went off all the time when people spoke of religion. One notable study conducted by Peters found that twice as many non-religious people than religious people think that the discovery of alien life ⦠When I saw how differently everyone started treating her, how they stopped inviting her to events, stopped really talking to her and things like that, I just got so angry at them all. Logically, it doesn't make sense to me. But at the time, he just seemed like a really cool guy who liked the same video games as me and played guitar and loved to joke around. Seeking the answers without the rituals. Why do we go by what the prophets said back then now and yet institutionalize modern day people who say that God's talking to them? [â]thewhitedeath 9 points10 points11 points 5 years ago (3 children). I am not broken. I was never religious even as a kid. When you look at the scale of things, we are very insignificant. And that's how it started, how I started questioning why I was part of the Catholic religion. 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. [â]Geckostares 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (1 child). I don't think that's right. I imagined it would all seem irrelevant to a supreme being like God. I realized how some religions lasted a long time and only have died fairly recently. 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. What episode of a television show was so bad that it nearly ruined the entire series for you? Or he just doesn't care? Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan. If anything that is the greatest lesson I took away from religion, even though I now do it for different reasons. If I see something that doesn't gel with my understanding of the universe, I'd like to find out why; whether it's a hitherto unknown quirk of physics or an Act of God. But what's the concrete justification for not accepting gay people? I actually read the book, cover to cover. This eventually caused me to lose faith in the religion and I sought out other philosophies to fill that curiosity. I just don't think any of them are right, but I also don't think any are wrong. I should clarify that I mean for me, personally. [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.". At the age of 6. [â]deadhead94 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). I'm not against religious practice though. [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. She would grab her wheelchair and be smiling while going down the street. I honestly thought it was weird and skeptical to begin with, but I went with it. I eventually became Athiest, but I didn't like it. What makes one story more fictional than another? I tried church and religion in high school and they (my parents) neither encouraged nor discouraged me. [â]Logic007 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). Then I realised that if there was an allmighty deity, it wouldn't be perfect and have a plan, because would not that plan also involve stopping sinning to begin with? I stopped being religious at 13. As a child I noticed that there was a personal fear of death among people that inspired the belief in religion. Don't be like those that shout their devotion on the streets. 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. I know religion is an important and vital part of life for a lot of people, and that they would feel lost without it. Non-religious wedding vows are vows made by couples to each other, which are not based on any faith or religion. Life got depressing and unhappy and I didn't have the energy to feel guilty and sinful and check my every god damned thought all the time to meet the standard "God" was expecting. Now I'm pretty agnostic, [â]MightyMightyBulldog 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). Memorial Day is over, which means that wedding season has officially begun. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey. [â]arting_slowly 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children). Some things this creator created, are really sweet and could do no wrong. Should I take the inconsistencies of the Bible seriously instead of pushing them to the back of my mind? I think the movie Dogma got it right on this one in regard to Christianity. I don't want to worship a god that does that if God judges me on my actions and intentions then I am better off without a group who puts down everyone who disagrees. Just that a group of people, a long time ago, created a religion and decided "We don't want none of that shit here.". In high school, in 10th grade, I met a boy. I actually enjoy the knowledge I gained about Christianity throughout my childhood. If the religion I choose is wrong then God will punish me with "hell" no matter how much I tried to do right or even did. The idea of God just never really made sense to me. But as ive gotten older, I dont fear whoever "god" is. Deciding between a non-religious or non-denominational ceremony is a personal choice, and it's one that should reflect your wedding vision. I think too many people flat out reject religion, but also anything that is related to it and in the process also forget about the questions. Click to share on Reddit ... Is the religious right ... why it might be exclusionary to have a Pledge of Allegiance with the word âgodâ in it for a country that is 20% non-religious? [â]AnnaNass 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children), The good thing, you'll probably notice earlier if people ever try this with you again :), [â]holobonit 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (0 children). I never heard the voice of God, I never experienced a "miracle." And it just struck me and that was that. I was raised in the church and eventually helped lead worship services and teach Sunday school to kids. [â]AutoModerator[M,] 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children). She passed away later on that day. Being aware that just because you don't accept their answers doesn't mean the questions go away. Growing up, anybody who was religious was a total dick about it. It starts with the disarmingly to-the-point line, “So ⦠I have some good news and some bad news. All of this has made me a much happier person. God was watching all the time and I was never good enough. Maybe they think it like that? 9 Inspiring, Non-Religious Books That Might Just Spark You To Change Around Your Whole Life. There was no mention of heaven. Haven't been back since I was like 14, [â]Froggmann5 10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (1 child). ... wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. I developed rituals of praying and such to be a better Christian because I was never good enough. I am a father. which explained things like confirmation bias. In my case, I still consider myself to be a Catholic but I don't always agree with everything said by the church. 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. During this time there were a handful of things that didn't seem quite right to me. I do believe in angels and demons. When I couldn't catch it and the only answer I was given was pray and read the bible I was left with more questions then answers. A similar discussion took place in the Ask Reddit community after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. [â][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (2 children). with all the scientists going there, it has to be air conditioned by this point. When the senior pastor was asked why nothing happened earlier he said "well when people come to me with concerns, unless they tell me they want to escalate things further I treat it with confidentiality". 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. In any case, things like fairness and forgiveness seemed very common sense to me growing up, especially with a sibling, so I didn't get why people needed them to be written down. May 31, 2016. I said where are the dinosaurs? They hired a youth pastor who was both verbally and physically abusive. My energy, my love, my laughter, those incredible memories, itâs all here with you.â. I actually miss religion, but I can't believe in it any more. 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