They sang "Amazing Grace" a lot. Not the greatest esteem building song.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Did your former religion ever make you feel broken?
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They sang "Amazing Grace" a lot. Not the greatest esteem building song.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
(November 7, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Spooky Wrote: They sang "Amazing Grace" a lot. Not the greatest esteem building song. Well, it's not that popular where I grew up, but we would have made "Amazing ass, how sweet the sound" out of it. (November 7, 2015 at 6:31 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 7, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Spooky Wrote: They sang "Amazing Grace" a lot. Not the greatest esteem building song. Heh, lol fair enough. My wife calls lutherans "watered down catholics" so I suppose you could say there was a little bit of guilt to go around. Oh well, I'm free of imaginary friends now.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Sympathies to all of you that had a bad/horrible experience. I might be more outspoken about religion if I had a similar experience.
For me, not broken. Just a feeble attempt to brainwash and dumb down rational thought. Pretty easy to shake off, especially in the 70's.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
I was never so miserable as when I truly believed in Jehovah. I was truly broken under the "sweet protection" of the overlord Christ Jesus.
I got "saved" at least a dozen times and by the age of six I was constantly worried about dying and going to hell. There is no "peace that passeth all understanding" as the Bible purports. This is plainly evident for one reason: NO ONE would ever leave Christianity if you were given peace that transcends anything you've ever known. It wouldn't happen. It couldn't happen. No person on the planet would give away such a thing. (Insert No True Scotsman argument here) It's a filthy lie. The greatest thing I ever did in my life was free myself from those chains.
I literally would break down crying and screaming because I thought all the bad things that were happening in my life was God punishing me. I eventually became convinced that God was either pure evil or didn't exist, that's what made me critically think about my beliefs and led me to not believe in God anymore.
(November 7, 2015 at 2:31 pm)Cecelia Wrote: I think it is especially harder for us gay people, but it is becoming easier for younger generations now to no longer suffer unnecessarily.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter (November 7, 2015 at 2:31 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Did your former religion ever make you feel broken? I mean truly broken. Like there was something wrong with you, when now you know there wasn't? I know that Christianity is predicated on the idea that we're all broken, but did anyone else actually feel broken? I never really thought about it. I don't think so. However, I used to punish myself when I did things I knew I should not have done. Milder punishments, in hope that I would not be punished more harshly by my parents if they were ever to find out. Even so, no fear of punishment ever deterred me from doing anything.
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Life breaks the living.
Religion just lowers the threshold.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred. (November 7, 2015 at 9:13 pm)Cinjin Wrote: I got "saved" at least a dozen times and by the age of six I was constantly worried about dying and going to hell. As I said, for me it was rather a boost to become an atheist. The line of reasoning was, they're contradicting themselves. Either that god of theirs is a total monster or he's not as the describe him at all. You can't have benevolent and at the same time threatening to punish your loved ones for your transgressions. That's why I started to question everything they said. |
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