Feelings towards religion

[Der/die AtheistIn]

Many religious claim they have a religion because it makes them feel happy, but if someone tells them: "I am unable to feel comfort from religion.", they'll respond is something like: "You're wrong", "You shouldn't feel this way" or "Religion doesn't give you comfort only because you choose so.".
So it's alright to have a religion based on your feelings, but it's wrong not to have one based on feelings.

[Mystic]

Their is a sense of peace in remembering God that is unlike any other peace or tranquility a person can feel.

[LadyForCamus]

Back so soon, MK? That was a quick study. 😝

[Mystic]

Back so soon, MK?  That was a quick study. 😝

lol, we am almost done the group project. So.. it's fine, only code monkey stuff left, nothing hard to figure out.

[Chad32]

It's more the community and support than the god belief. Belonging to a group helps us as social creatures, regardless of which god the groups believe in, if any. Correlation does not equal causation.

[Brian37]

Many religious claim they have a religion because it makes them feel happy, but if someone tells them: "I am unable to feel comfort from religion.", they'll respond is something like: "You're wrong", "You shouldn't feel this way" or "Religion doesn't give you comfort only because you choose so.".
So it's alright to have a religion based on your feelings, but it's wrong not to have one based on feelings.

"Feelings" ultimately have nothing to do with the ability to demonstrate the credibility of what one claims, on any subject.

I didn't ditch my former religion because of feelings. I left that position over time because of deep reflection and questioning it became clear that there was no evidence for a super natural power, nor the fantastic claims of that book of mythology.

But the same can be said for every religion in the world. Nobody worldwide back in antiquity had any clue as to our modern scientific understanding of nature and reality.

It certainly is ok for atheists to have feelings. Humans regardless of label have feelings because of evolution. BUT if you are going to hold any position, it should be based on facts, evidence and should be subject to testing, falsification and independent peer review.

I've seen plenty of atheists over the years that stop at "that doesn't make sense", but really don't do any work to know why they think that. I'd say if you don't do the work to understand your own position, you're setting yourself up to fall for a slick apologist and or your own emotions and potentially fall back into theism.

[Whateverist]

Many religious claim they have a religion because it makes them feel happy, but if someone tells them: "I am unable to feel comfort from religion.", they'll respond is something like: "You're wrong", "You shouldn't feel this way" or "Religion doesn't give you comfort only because you choose so.".
So it's alright to have a religion based on your feelings, but it's wrong not to have one based on feelings.

Around here we're often told first you have to really, really, really believe it and then eventually it will work.  Right.

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Their is a sense of peace in remembering God that is unlike any other peace or tranquility a person can feel.

How many alternative approaches to peace and tranquility have you devoted yourself to with equal time and diligence as you have with Islam?

[sdelsolray]

Their is a sense of peace in remembering God that is unlike any other peace or tranquility a person can feel.

Speak for yourself, not others.  Please.

[Der/die AtheistIn]

"Feelings" ultimately have nothing to do with the ability to demonstrate the credibility of what one claims, on any subject.

I didn't ditch my former religion because of feelings. I left that position over time because of deep reflection and questioning it became clear that there was no evidence for a super natural power, nor the fantastic claims of that book of mythology.

But the same can be said for every religion in the world. Nobody worldwide back in antiquity had any clue as to our modern scientific understanding of nature and reality.

It certainly is ok for atheists to have feelings. Humans regardless of label have feelings because of evolution. BUT if you are going to hold any position, it should be based on facts, evidence and should be subject to testing, falsification and independent peer review.

I've seen plenty of atheists over the years that stop at "that doesn't make sense", but really don't do any work to know why they think that. I'd say if you don't do the work to understand your own position, you're setting yourself up to fall for a slick apologist and or your own emotions and potentially fall back into theism.

I also didn't became an atheist because of emotions. I just wanted to point out that the argument that you should follow religion out of comfort, doesn't hold up if a person is happy as an atheist. I totally agree that we should base our opinions on thinking, not emotions, but I wanted to write a different argument.