RE: Does anybody else feel sorry for religious people?
January 30, 2015 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2015 at 4:22 pm by Nope.)
(January 30, 2015 at 11:49 am)IanHulett Wrote: I went to church on sunday, and I felt sorry for everybody there, because all I could think of was that they were brainwashed, and were giving their money away for nothing, and that the elders wasted their entire life, and the middle aged people are wasting their life, and they're oppressing themselves, etc. I just feel so sorry for these people.
Fortunately, my girlfriend, and the pastor knows I'm an atheist, but that's it. Nobody else at church knows.
Does anybody else feel sorry for religious people?
I do and it is one reason why, outside of this forum, I am pretty gentle when it comes to discussing religion with religious people. Many people are religious because they need an emotional crutch to get through life. My best friend suffered some extreme abuse at the hands of her father. She spent a big part of her life believing that she was worthless. Faith helped her to believe that someone loved her and that she had worth as a person. Hopefully, one day she will move past that place in her life but I can understand why religion would appeal to her.
There are other people, though, who are religious because they are arrogant pricks and religion provides them with a way to feel superior to someone. I have no pity for them.
