You know, it seriously takes alot time and courage for someone who’s really shy and and the loner type to actually post anything. Alot of times I just press cancle on a full page post, so feedback would be nice. Also a comment to other posts that have no replies wouldn’t hurt either.
This is my first post, so let me start off by saying, yes I am quite uh ‘suicidal’ and I have no idea what I’m doing here, or why I’m posting my personal thoughts here. I’ll post a bit about myself later because noone wants to read another 100 paragraphs of another suicidal person. (or maybe that’s your thing, then I suggest you read my future posts, if I ever get the corage to make another)
Back to the point. Benefits of religion. Well, my grandfather is acutally a minister of a church, so growing up I always went to church. The thing with religion is you can’t force people to believe them, and when you are forced to go, it becomes a task. So I lost interest and stopped going to church, so there’s my backstory on that.
I’ve came to the conclusion one day, that God does not exist. There is no such place as heaven or hell. There is no such thing as soul or the afterlife. I won’t explain why I think this way because A, that’s not the point of this post and B, I don’t want to have a long pointless argument with someone who does believe in God. Because people are free to believe what they think is true.
If you do believe in God, you have someone to talk to about your fears. You have people to rely on or someone to get help from. You can atleast ‘die happy’ in a way I guess. Ofcourse some may disagree and I completly understand that. But to someone who doesn’t believe in God, Death becomes ALOT more scary. To imagine you would simple not exist, all your memories and activies you’ve done becomes next to meaningless, to just disappear like that…
Uh well… I don’t know what to write anymore. I’ll think of something by tomorrow. Right now I’m super depressed so I think I need a walk or something. Thanks for taking the time to read.
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I agree with what you say about religion. It has many great benefits to people like having god to talk to, and meet others at church.
I don’t believe and I even don’t like most of religions and the bible for many personal reasons. I just think that when I die it will all end. It doesn’t scare me at all.
Same thing happened with me when I stopped believing in God – I started seeing its benefits all over. You are innocent and curious, you will go a long way.
You’re welcome to post here. It’s public, so you may get some snide comments on some of your posts. I hope you have someone you can talk with about feelings & thoughts.
Leaving a childhood faith is stressful, since it can change relationships with friends & relatives, and sometimes even cause relationships to be lost. As far as I know, religion or no religion doesn’t affect suicidal emotions very much. I don’t think that death comes easy or painless either way.
There are support groups for people who have left religions. “Recovery from Religion” is one such group and it has a web site in the USA. I googled it. However, it doesn’t seem to deal with finding help with specific personal issues or feeling.
Thanks for the feedback.
I’ve had bad experiences with getting support irl too… I’d rather have people to have a discussion with here. Getting back to religion isn’t something I’m interested in anymore, or atleast for now.