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Has religion ever brought you happeniness?
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I used to perform at folk Masses on a semi-regular basis. The Church always paid in full and on time (more than can be said for some of the other venues I worked). A cheque that doesn't bounce is always a source of happiness to me.
'Pay To The Order Of' is the sweetest prose ever created in the English language. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness?
January 1, 2017 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2017 at 11:21 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
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January 1, 2017 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2017 at 11:44 am by mlmooney89.)
Happiness? Hmm when my sister was little we taught her how to pray before dinner and when she said it right the first time we clapped. After awhile she assumed that was part of the prayer so we kept doing it cause she was cute. Then my second sister came along and continued the clapping. It wasn't until both were near adolescence that we stopped. It wasn't so much the religious part that brought me happiness it was the family part and that it was a cute little quirk our family had.
Not much to be said cause when said first sister also dropped her pacifier we said uh oh and she thought that was what it was actually called. We called it that until I was working in a day care and my co-workers looked at me crazy lol. Nothing religious in that one but it gives me the same happy feelin... Meaning I reckon my story doesn't count lol sorry
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you." 
Yes. It has also helped me tremendously in getting through tough times, and continues to do so.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh  
If you mean, has a sense of the presence of the deity of the particular faith that briefly deceived me ever managed to make me happy? No.
Has the coincidental fact that it brought people together in the right place at the right time to make certain events in my life go a little better than they otherwise would (when things were really, REALLY shitty according to some apparently very awkward god's divine plan)? Yes. But it's nothing the secular community couldn't have done with more people and resources, and probably would have lasted longer and been of greater benefit if it had been by secularists.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views. 
It was quite interesting. For me religion brought me happiness, but only because of my ignorance. Once I learned of the true horror religion brings, it changed.
But during a period of ignorance, yes...
Paul was a misogynist: A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 1st Timothy 2:11-13
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