my personal story about how religion and my religious gullability ruined my life
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@slyfox86314 жыл бұрын
It has destroyed my life from childhood and now I'm nearly 35 and unable to render the past
@subramaniannk33644 жыл бұрын
@Loriane You can say I am also trying to recover from those teachings! I feel I have been restricted by religion. Are you happy now?
@JoshuaMSOG72 жыл бұрын
@@subramaniannk3364 very happy finding out the truth in the Bible and Jesus
@JorgeFernandoHernandez-Orantes Жыл бұрын
Same here, although I am younger and I feel like I have supreme health/vitality. I can totally understand your feelings. You probably regret many things that you didn't do because the people around you told you it wasn't God's will or your own fearful interpretation of God's will told you not to. I totally get it.
@user-yr3ty6je7g Жыл бұрын
Ok and now you want to ruin others right? Go hide somewhere and cry ir what ever makes your day. No one really cares because they have their own problems.
@j.c.59996 ай бұрын
Same, but I'm 56 now and have finally come to understand the extent to which evangelical Christianity and my strict, fundamental upbringing has damaged me. So much so that I have been unable to function as an adult human. My life has been full of failure and confusion and a deep-seated inability to function in the real world.
@halcyonzenith44116 ай бұрын
The greatest sorrow I feel as an atheist is for the children born into religion who will have to spend their lives deconstructing it, or worse yet may never escape the thought trap.
@mistylover73986 ай бұрын
Exactly
@garythompson94523 ай бұрын
A thought trap indeed. As one speaker expressed, religion is a form of child abuse.
@jannawalters2322 ай бұрын
I grew up as a pastor's daughter. No regrets. My parents deep Faith is why I believe. They were true, sincere Christians. Maybe religion ruins some people, but God doesn't fail us.
@halcyonzenith44112 ай бұрын
@@jannawalters232 a false belief is still false no matter what sincerity with which it is believed, or how comfortably one sleepwalks through life because of it.
@colepiercemusic2 ай бұрын
@@halcyonzenith4411life cannot come from non life. Creation needs to have a creator 100% of the time. Jesus loves you!
@RefiningReason5 жыл бұрын
You're not stupid for what happened. There is always a feeling of guilt or loss when one realizes an ideology they put their life into is wrong. I had a long period of re-adjustment, but it ultimately led to me gaining my life back, as I'm hoping it is currently doing for you.
@aceventura3935 Жыл бұрын
Sir or mam, how did you do this , I never thought I could fall for something like this , how did you get your life back
@johngreen38602 жыл бұрын
Well said. I had a horrible religious upbringing which basically ruined my life.
@JorgeFernandoHernandez-Orantes Жыл бұрын
The perfect recipe for a disaster is spending your teenage days locked in a small community that doesn't add anything meaningful to your future. In my case, I dealt with people that ignored me and avoided me but my fear of God's wrath made me stick around. I wish I knew it sooner because I lost so many opportunities of being in the lives of people that despite not being christians are resourceful and good people. Christianity or at least how I experienced it just narrowed my opportunities. I am a naturally fearful individual so religious teachings about hell were big deterrents to go out and party ,skipping church to do other activities and meeting new people.
@user-yw2fw7yr8q6 ай бұрын
Religion makes me sad and makes me fear
@glenliesegang233Ай бұрын
Then you are not seeing how it brings joy and hope to others. L'chaim! Dance! Sing! Celebrate with others this strange, weird, and wonderful mystery called being alive!
@bustjanzupan107412 күн бұрын
@@glenliesegang233 Every dance is harmful 4 any soul.
@RabiaSammy6 ай бұрын
I was raised super religoius and even today i have so much relgiious trauma and i almost always have an identity crisis
@bustjanzupan107412 күн бұрын
Than you were just improperly teached about it.
@jenniferlorence19504 жыл бұрын
Salvation is "Free" and then Comes the HUGE PRICE you have to Pay for it, Every Pain, Suffering, Betrayal, God ignoring your prayers, Betrayal and Hate inside the Church, your enemies winning over you, a God that has No Mercy on You, a God that Sees You Suffering and Crying tears but Just ignores You, a God who doesn't protect you from Any Evil Ever!!!, a God gives you more difficulty than Peace, and is ALL for his Glory.
@salah7773 жыл бұрын
Christianity is destroyed by an archeologist:: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9CVkq6mnLfZh58.html
@nothingevenmatters7712 жыл бұрын
I totally agree Jennifer
@jenniferlorence19502 жыл бұрын
@@nothingevenmatters771; I'm sorry, Ashley, I wish I didn't have to write all that stuff, but the weird thing is how God treats those who are doing Right, but Rewards All those who are doing Wrong. Just look at the Jada & Will Smith's case, do you have an idea how many "marriages" I've encountered in my own life where the Wife is just like Jada?? Many, so many that I lost count, but Yet their husbands are just like Will Smith, have them living in the Best Houses, and I mean giving them the Best Homes, the Best Cars, the Best lifestyle, but all the women who are Caring, loving mothers, and truly Love their husband and are Faithful Wives, whom do God gives them as Husbands?? The Worst Crap there is walking the Face of this Earth. And all the single mothers, who are Amazing Women, and truly desire for life to Bless them with a Good Man in their lives, and what they Get? The Crap of this Earth, and they PRAY for Years, but God always ignores their Prayers for a Good Husband as if they, plus they get discriminated along with their kids everywhere they Go, as if God damned them for being Courageous women.
@jenniferlorence19502 жыл бұрын
@@nothingevenmatters771 I hope You are feeling better. Just Love Yourself, and do Not trust Anyone, not even family members, and know that You are alone, is a lesson that I had to learn, and Love Yourself and only trust in Yourself, there is no one else for you out there.
@jenniferlorence19502 жыл бұрын
@@nothingevenmatters771; Be Strong Girl, you are too beautiful, and don't fail yourself, because You is All that You Got. My whole life, I've been trusting God, only to find out that He never Cared.
@MrKit9 Жыл бұрын
Religion is pure poison. I wish I had the thousands and thousands of hours back that I invested in faith and prayer. What a total waste of time!
@colepiercemusic2 ай бұрын
Jesus loves you!
@MrKit92 ай бұрын
@@colepiercemusic And if you don't love him back he sends you to Hell forever. No Thanks.
@MrKit92 ай бұрын
@@colepiercemusic Jesus says love me or burn in Hell. That's blackmail not love. Go away liar.
@WhoWellOk2 ай бұрын
@@MrKit9who else loves you in this universe? Because other humans who say they do actually don’t
@MarcusVinicius-we2pg2 ай бұрын
@@colepiercemusicDo you believe God and his son Jesus are the same person?
@paranoiknabloku2 жыл бұрын
I can feel your pain, hate religion too.
@slaydog51029 ай бұрын
It's no better than believing in Zeus but the good thing is that religion is dying
@bustjanzupan107412 күн бұрын
@@slaydog5102 Yes, but you need 2 know, that after the religion dying, also the death of the humanity comes after that.
@joejacobs353710 ай бұрын
I had a great life til religion came along....Recently got happy again...
@bustjanzupan107412 күн бұрын
I had a pointless life without the religion. Now i know why i have been incarnated onto this planet, because most people still don't.
@joejacobs353712 күн бұрын
@@bustjanzupan1074 Everybody has their own way...I believe there is a God,but I choose to live my life religion free....
@nopretribrapture23183 жыл бұрын
Christianity cost me my mental and physical health, beaten almost to death by ex husbands (divorced twice ) i thought it was God's will for me to be perpetually beaten up,so i stayed with my husband at the time untill i just couldn't take it anymore, now im bed bound and partially disabled with health problems because of them,and the fear and anxiety that the bible has caused;especially about HELL FOREVER and lake of fire ,just shows GOD is sick cruel and evil.
@dorinamary7863 Жыл бұрын
I can really sympathize and relate to what you've said here. I had two husbands as well. One was a wife beater, and the other was an alcoholic. I was completely housebound and bedridden for almost a year, and am climbing my way back out of that little by little. I came from not just a broken home, but a broken family, and was raised in a very strict, fearsome religion where all we heard about was "hell forever", too. About thirty years ago, I stopped going to all churches, and 20 years ago I left religion altogether, but have found my way to the gentle and loving Heavenly Father that we don't learn about in the old testament of the bible. That is not Him. If we believe that's him, then we will have very poor and very weak faith, always wondering if he's out to get us or strike us down with some problem, to teach us a lesson or whatever. That's the one Jesus Christ called the ruler of this world whom He had come to destroy and cast out. There are some channels that helped with this discovery and restoration, one being Love Unrelenting, and another is Good God, both on KZfaq. Together they clear things up, and I am healing from the spiritual abuse and mental torment I suffered with for decades. I hope you are encouraged by this, and that you will find relief and the love you deserve.
@GS-cg3yn Жыл бұрын
Christianity is a cult; a very dangerous one.
@anastasyacortuna8551 Жыл бұрын
@@revanvonheaven8270 bro just shut up
@aceventura3935 Жыл бұрын
@@revanvonheaven8270how would you know ? Do you know God ?
@anthonysilva354010 ай бұрын
Omg shut up, ur lying. Another victimized woman seeking attention. Shame on u
@user-tr9of6sl4p24 күн бұрын
I am raised christian, i was born very small and weak. I was anorexic and unable to walk or stand on myown. I prayed to god every day to cure me... "dear god, please cure me... i believe o divine heavenly father..." No answer. For years. I decided to take fate into myown hands. I started deadlifting. Just the bar. 45 lbs. Now, 6 years later, as an atheist, i doubled my bodyweight, and i can deadlift 315 lbs, as an atheist, and i can do parkour. prayer is worthless. God isnt real. Celebrate your freedom away from the CULT of religion.
@Mr.Victor-qs2hj6 күн бұрын
Nice! bro
@scottgresham6759Ай бұрын
A lot of people, even well into adulthood, 30s, 40s and beyond are are still trying to re-integrate the sense of religious teachings from years ago. It's hard.
@bustjanzupan107412 күн бұрын
Yes, because most of the Bible "experts" are still Wrongly understanding it.
@robertlight52278 ай бұрын
I am a fundamentalist atheist. I question everything. You are a brave and honest mind. Bravo!
@stephenrichie46462 ай бұрын
Religion breaks your thinker.
@freethinker2350Ай бұрын
Very true. Religion and rational thought are mutually exclusive terms
@stephenrichie4646Ай бұрын
@@freethinker2350 Bingo. Faith is, by definition, irrational.
@AG-ho7no Жыл бұрын
I got severely depressed everytime God has been mentioned in my life I need to cleanse my life of Jesus cause he is not God to me anymore I realized he’s what’s tormenting me 👎🏼
@BIGTOBEJO27 күн бұрын
I relate
@davidpersson250 Жыл бұрын
I love leaving christianity and religion myself
@user-tr9of6sl4p24 күн бұрын
Im gay, i grew up in a catholic trumper household. Im sure i dont need to elaborate.
@schmetterling447721 күн бұрын
I hope you are getting help with your loneliness. :-)
@cm28love_peace75 ай бұрын
Religion can be super influential, and after 20+ yrs of being a Christian, I realized I had been bamboozled. I hate religion and Christianity today and hate that I wasted so many yrs of my life on all the b.s. it persuaded me to believe.
@joejacobs353712 күн бұрын
@@cm28love_peace7 When I practiced Christianity,people would always want to argue...I got so sick of it
@scottgresham6759Ай бұрын
I have felt anger at the cultural indoctrination of religious teachings at my high school, for example the endless narrative of dealing with the problem of human evil and how distant these teachings are from how people relate to each other in the real world. Whether you remain a Christian or not it's good to practise being a good person. I think a lot of religious teachings don't apply so well to the modern world we live in.
@DoctorFixMaster13 күн бұрын
Religion doesn't ruin people's lives. People do. You have to accept the abuses that religion doles out before they can harm you. Step one is to claim your own power and own it. It's true of everything, not just religion. There are owners and victims, and we choose which one we're going to be.
@jameschapman65592 ай бұрын
Santa Claus, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, the great pumpkin and finally god after about 30 years. My life is so much better without all the indoctrination, grooming and grifting from early childhood by the church.
@fredrikbergquist573423 күн бұрын
Einstein said that religiousness has three levels: the first is magic, you paint an animal on the wall to get lucky hunting the animal. The second level is the sociological, the congregation is more important than the individual. You have hierarchies, money is collected and so on. The third level is the individuals search for a faith, sometimes completely on his own, sometimes learning from a ”guru” of some sort. The damage he speaks about comes from the second level not the other two.
@schmetterling447721 күн бұрын
At the level of magical thinking the human brain is damaged already. It can not think straight about reality and it makes unforced mistakes that come from this magical bias. Faith, OTOH, is the very definition of a mental disfunction. The right side of the brain seeks to replace logical thinking that the left side is not capable of with ad-hoc and usually random assumptions.
@ProJMFPWT1411 ай бұрын
Would any of you be willing to talk to me about anybout this. I struggle with major depressive disorder and religious trauma and am trying like hell to learn to heal from it all.
@matinhannak36494 ай бұрын
Sure, if you still want something like this, i could provide you a perspective on those issues from the viewpoint of someone that was never religious.
@RyanJ-qt8xj2 ай бұрын
Sure dude. Np
@user-tr9of6sl4p24 күн бұрын
Religion cost me my wife. She joined mormonism, instantly became racist because of their hateful beliefs, and i broke up with her.
@joejacobs353711 күн бұрын
@@user-tr9of6sl4p I never took the rude Mormons seriously at all...They seem like a joke
@jeffreyhearn89302 ай бұрын
Because I loved, respected and wanted to please my parents, who were both religious, I lost at least 90% of my childhood Sundays with the most boring 2 hours of the week. Then, my Dad died suddenly with a volent heart attack, at 46 years old, when I was just 16. My mum lived a long enough life, but died very unhappy and in great pain. My parents gave me LIFE and I will forever love and thank them for this. But 'God' took my Dad away from my when he was still young and when I neeed him most, and I cried for several years for the loss of my Mum.... who, on her penultimate day of life said "God has abandoned me". either he does not exist at all, which is the most likely scenario, or , if by some chance he did, then he is slack and useless, doing nothing to intervene with great wrongs and atrocities carried out by mahy people against many others.... then we move onto disease, famine and a planet under threat of burning up. I am 65 now. I still resent all those lost Sundays, I will continue to miss my Dad to my dying day.... and grieve for my Mum who suffered too long and too lonely... i have nothing to thank any 'god' for.... anyone who beleves in a god is sadly deluded, more likely extremely brainwashed..... I would only think about taking up religion if I had a direct 'sign'... not from any human, but of a divine nature. Still waiting for such....
@glenliesegang233Ай бұрын
There is a "religion" which does not need deconstruction: Life is miraculous, and is neither meaningless nor pointless.
@Shytot-1Ай бұрын
Where ignorance is bliss religion thrives - Shytot-1
@ZeonicMerc-nt3cvАй бұрын
Thanks to religious fanaticism from my own biological mother, my childhood was kinda fucked up, hell even my teenage years going into my young adult phase, i deconstructed and converted from 20-22, im about to be 23 on this month and I've escaped from my mother's fanaticism and set boundaries for me, but still, im trying to forget the fact that my own mother would rather put her horrendous religion over her own son's psychological needs and many other things... religion is like a drug sometimes... addictive to some people, destructive at worst... i trust that no other person has to go through the same religious fanaticism as me or anybody else here... if they do... then crap...
@syahnovlikuartapama54014 ай бұрын
Religion ruined my relationship with my fam, my gf, everything. I just want to be happy but religion forbid it. Hilarious
@Owl3506 ай бұрын
I had a problem with Religion Harm , and the many crimes those with the Bribe money commented !
@LimitlessThinker23 күн бұрын
It was a Benny Hinn crusade that made me question. That was over 20 years ago and I am thankful I have been free of superstition, because of it. They were passing around huge white buckets for people to put their money into. I went home and decided to study that KJV and read the entire book. I critically examined the history of the bible and of religion. I went to Catholic school, but later was non-denominational. Religion and superstition is a waste of life and time. I read what our forefathers had written about the subject, since many were Deists. Age of Reason by Thomas Paine was excellent. Dan Barker's book Losing Faith in Faith was one of the first books, but I ended up with quite a library. C. Dennis McKinsey had excellent information. I loved Robert G. Ingersoll's works! There were so many great resources. Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett are great. Even if a person just wants to critically examine religion there is The Thinking Atheist and others on social media.
@jean-baptistedupont59672 ай бұрын
Wish you all the best, mate!
@hubertlancasterАй бұрын
A lot of people say they left Christianity and were never in Christianity in the first place, and have no idea how to go about being a part of it. I repented, was baptized by immersion in water, according to Acts 2:38, and was filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in unknown tongue just like they did in the tenth chapter of Acts. I received the revelation that Jesus Christ was God Almighty in the flesh the only supreme God there is or ever will be. Jesus said, in John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Some finally figure out that they were duped.
@davidpersson250 Жыл бұрын
Tired of spiritual journeys i let them go by themselves finding themselves for themselves
@Nightzero663 ай бұрын
Me watching documentaries about America made me feel that religion is bull cow
@raulcoto65947 күн бұрын
Jesu Said; I Am the way, the truth and the life; he that endurance until the end shall be saved. Wheather you want to believe or not those words that's up to you, but I'll tell you somenthing people - when you lay on your bed in your last days thats when shit hits the fan, and reality sinks in... at that moment even the atheists tremble and call upon God at the last breath, because of the unknown they're about to face.
@jeffcarlson3269Ай бұрын
so let me get this straight ... you don't believe in what God's word says.. because it annoys you?.. or because you cannot make all the stories and words.. to fit logically?.. perhaps if you spent more time.. searching the scripture ... you would get the answers you need and it would not seem as boring to you... I read and study scripture everyday.. and I have never found it boring..
@philosophyforum46682 ай бұрын
So you adopted some ideas, then changed your mind. How exactly was your life ruined? I see no link to a part 2. Kinda silly dude.
@mr.t1147 күн бұрын
It´s all of this about "inviting God and Jesus into once life". Well i did, i had my door open for all of it and really whole heartedly. From this perspective, from mine then and as truthfully as this individual then can tell about it and in so many words; what did it mean for me? That i have a stellar health overall, is that it? I search within to find something solid to tell about but no it´s hard to do, did i miss something, what then. I have never lacked material fundings, good health, but spiritually no. I have to come up with that myself then but maybe that´s how it should be? I can´t exaclty put my finger on it as i don´t want to give anyone the wrong idea about it all and with that i´ll leave it. I just urge you all to be as truthful about this as possible and don´t blame Jesus or God for any eventual own shortcomings, the truth is what we want, no blame games is of any use.
@gingerellacookie56414 жыл бұрын
me too but I still believe in God. I grew up Catholic but it caused severe depression. I understand. It doesn't allow birth control for women and as a kid all they talked about was going to hell. It ruined my sex life in highschool
@alfaisaac0243 жыл бұрын
Tbh you probably shouldn'tve been worried about a sex life in college. I could see college tho. But that's just me
@dorinamary7863 Жыл бұрын
Why do you think that's okay to be doing?
@JMRabil6757 ай бұрын
@dorin I beg of you please shut up
@davidg56292 ай бұрын
I am not religious, but do you give credit for your orthodox religion reforming and organizing your culture? We know it's better than what ever preceded it. A Christian nation will be more civilized and have better hospitals than a non Christian one. A humanist society still has sins to punish, but in a humanist society, you will never be forgiven.
@lepidoptera93372 ай бұрын
Humanism isn't about forgiveness. It's about keeping people happy and safe. Religion was never about that in the first place. It has zero empathy for its victims.
@colepiercemusic2 ай бұрын
You’re mad at God but He isn’t mad at you… His heart is just broken that you don’t see how much He loves you. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and if you can repent and put your faith in HIM (not a religion), He will grant you the free gift of everlasting life!
@ga65892 ай бұрын
You are projecting and using a strawman argument. Atheism means to reject non-evidentiary god-claims... that's it. It's absurd to claim it's a matter of being mad at a god, because there's simply no evidence that proves one exists.
@DicyaninGlass2 ай бұрын
Honestly any comment just like these sounds like trolling!!!
@ounkwon64424 ай бұрын
All religions are men-made with gorgeous enticing doctrines, dogmas, creeds, teachings, rules, rituals, traditions, mannerisms and gestures - with deceiving and self-deceiving - and love of power to control people.. Each one better to make one's own religion to serve one's own God - other than God of the Bible, God of religions, God Jesus, etc.
@Cine95Ай бұрын
I grew up in atheistic family 😂how did it ruin your life then
@jessealexander74556 ай бұрын
I follow Jesus and find Christianity every bit as reasonable as atheism/agnosticism. For me, it's always been a thinking faith. You seem like a thoughtful guy. I know of some Christian groups that don't like questions - and it sounds like that may be where you were - but the ones I hang with love the arts, exploring quandaries and questions, digging into science, and the life of the mind.
@angelslayer1695 ай бұрын
You've put yourself in mental bondage.
@joecheffo59423 ай бұрын
@@angelslayer169 Can't you guys EVER EVER stop? The fact that you can't leave this man alone proves how sick this is.
@jackmyers2359Ай бұрын
@@joecheffo5942 No Atheists go knocking on doors and stop people in the park to deliver any :messages" dude.
@desireedebellis6766Ай бұрын
@@joecheffo5942 stop projecting nonsense.. Can't you guys EVER EVER stop ,,coming to a video which you don't agree with ,,just to tell others they are wrong??
@joecheffo5942Ай бұрын
@@desireedebellis6766 Isn’t this video agreeing with me or am I reading the title wrong?
@lea86674 жыл бұрын
I grew up in 7th Day Adventism... the God doesn't give life to just anyone eho believes in him. You have to follow everything the Bible says too... strictly!
@TheFracturedfuture8 ай бұрын
Yeah that sounds like a load of bull shit.
@LaneTheBrane8 ай бұрын
Control system
@mikieemiike3979Ай бұрын
It almost ruined mine. I almost married this chick i was lusting for. That would have been a disaster. I wasted a lot of time but i see it as now I'm much wiser. I approached religion with logic and turned my fellowships upside-down. One of them even called me Judas. 😂 I was being real about it. Now i know the truth about all religions. It doesn't matter what be believe. If it did matter we would all believe what we would be expected to believe.
@Religious_Atheist-eu4ciАй бұрын
Well said brotha👍🏼
@randomland9088 Жыл бұрын
Religion impedes your ability to be spiritual. God is way to categorized and is misunderstood. By the rules of religion, any and all human interpretation if blasphemy.. So it's self contradicting. Bibles teach morals but spirituality can't be learned.
@patrickmasih-muntazir5743 ай бұрын
Jesus didn't enforce his teachings on others. An unmatched freedom that nations missed.
@bluzedogg8 ай бұрын
I feel your pain man but blaming religion for ruining your life? that's ridiculous. you allowed religion to ruin your life. it's not religions fault. all religion sucks and is based on bullshit. I gave thousands of dollars to the only time I was really involved with the church but I did not blame the church and I did not blame religion. I blame myself. I haven't watched your second video yet I'm getting ready to do that. so far I don't see how you could blame religion though.
@matinhannak36494 ай бұрын
Thats... really weird. You seem to imply you have already found your way out, but still defend religion? That is literally victim blaming, religions use incredibly dishonest and immoral tactics to propagate themselves, for example the most commonly commited and endorsed version of child abuse, indoctrination. Religion is a cancer, and humanity is its victim, theists are victims of an idea that was only able to survive because the entire thing of the idea is to poison, bent, twist and break the victims brain into believing impossible nonsenical absurdities for no, and against all reason.
@tal123ableАй бұрын
God is the embodiment of everything in nature. That is why we can say God (nature) was there, is there, and will always be there. You cannot use science or theology to show the beginning of the beginning or the first God. To create an Omnipotent God, you need a more complex Omnipotent God. It goes on and on and on. Who is the first God is an unanswerable question. In nature anything and everything has to have a simple beginning and then evolve to be complex. The universe starting simple and expanding and evolving to be more complex is intellectually acceptable than an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, benevolent Creator Being, pulling strings from the beginning. One who tries to argue and prove that the God in his book created everything, pitifully lacks understanding? Since God is the embodiment of everything in nature, ask yourself “Can God give books to humans?” Different contradicting books to different tribes. These different books sometimes contradict violently. All books are written by people and are based on their narrow understanding of the contemporary world. They had no idea of Galaxies or microbes. They believed that their God created a Geocentric Universe and the Sun orbits around the Earth. They believed that plagues are divine punishments. Take anything from nature. Can electricity, gravity or magnetism give you a book? No, but you investigate and learn about natural phenomena, and you write books about them. Does the electric motor work differently for followers of xyz religion? Does Penicillin work differently for followers of pqr religion? When giant Tsunami waves came, they swept away the whole kindergarten full of children belonging to all kind of religions. This is the way of God (nature). I am more comfortable with the Buddhist belief of Dependant Origination (cause and effect). The Law of Causation states that whatever is, must have a cause. Suggesting also that, if there is a thing or an event, then there will be an effect that will inevitably follow from that thing or event. Unwholesome actions will lead to unwholesome results and wholesome actions lead to wholesome results. We create our own Karma, as reflected in our destiny. It is vital that we respect rational, secular, humanist values. It really does not matter, which religion you follow, or which book you read. If you are good, you are good. By being good, what I mean, is living without causing any harm or pain, physical or mental, to any beings sensitive to pain. If there is a place called heaven where all good people destined to go, you will go there regardless of your denomination or religious label. This theory eliminates the need to argue and prove the unprovable, while we are on earth. The only requirement to reach the heaven is to be good. It is futile trying to prove if heaven and hell exist or whether there is life after death, which God in which book is the right one. Isn’t this a very beautiful belief? Though, I cannot prove to you the veracity of this belief, just like you cannot prove the veracity of your religious belief to me, I accept this as the most plausible. Kalama Sutra: Do not accept things just because they are being repeated, or come from tradition, scriptures, rumor, guesswork, incorrect reasoning, and a bias towards the subject, clever oration or mere respect for the teacher or speaker. When you know for yourself that something leads to harm and sorrow and is not welcomed by the wise, then abandon it. The same text, said the Buddha, must be applied to his own teachings. Thanks for reading. Lal Fernando Lal.fernando@gmail.com
@ZachariahMorningstar2 ай бұрын
God the Father loves everyone for His mercy endureth forever
@ga65892 ай бұрын
What credible evidence do you have for your claim?
@ZachariahMorningstar2 ай бұрын
@@ga6589 You dont understand that is not a claim, it is fact.
@ga65892 ай бұрын
@@ZachariahMorningstar Facts are based on credible and verifable evidence that proves something is true. There is no such evidence for any god, so you've made a non-evidentiary claim. You may be entitled to an opinion, but not your own definition of a fact.
@ZachariahMorningstar2 ай бұрын
@@ga6589 You are trying to define fact by rejecting truth.
@ga65892 ай бұрын
@@ZachariahMorningstar I am rejecting your non-evidentiary god-claims.
@johnheaton5058Ай бұрын
Sects and cults do great damage - but I don't think you can just write off 'religion' because of them. They're not exactly good role models for God...
@schmetterling447721 күн бұрын
You can write off all religion as the Nigerian Prince scam that it is.
@BillyBike416Ай бұрын
Most of what I have heard here seems to arise from a misunderstanding of Christian doctrine and a lack of grasping what genre of Biblical literature one is reading. If you read Genesis assuming you are reading a scientific treatise on origins instead of an answer to The Great Questions (who am I? what am I to do? what is the origin of evil etc), yes, you will be confused and disappointed. One should be aware of the genre of literature you are reading whether it be history (I II Kings), law (Leviticus), poetry (Psalms) mourning (Lamentations) racism (Jonah) etc, etc, The Bible has had the greatest influence for good the world has known. Can religious thought be misused? Of course. So can atheism (much more so). I grieve for the unhappiness this man has suffered but it does not need to be so.
@markf630Ай бұрын
The problem Billy is that good evidence dose not exist that claims of magical thinking, Miracles, The bible, god, or Jesus or Zeus are true. Ponder that and free yourself from mental bondage.
@Loveispainj28 күн бұрын
This is Christians problem right here thinking yall know everything. YALLL DONT KNOW A PERSON JOURNEY YALL ARE VERY DISMISSIVE TO PEOPLE JOURNEY IN FACT CHRISTIANS ARE VERY ARROGANT AND ENTITLED HOW DARE YOU SAY BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T GOTEEN THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING YALL ARE RIDICULOUS
@MrBILLSTANLEY Жыл бұрын
Agree with every comment below.
@freespirit7450 Жыл бұрын
I didn't realize I needed Jesus. Sorry Jesus for rejecting you
@georgeporge7124 Жыл бұрын
Jesus will not turn anyone away who comes to him in humility.
@joecheffo59423 ай бұрын
@@georgeporge7124 The argument is that he stays hidden. Why stay hidden. Turning away would at least show he is participating.
@georgeporge71243 ай бұрын
@@joecheffo5942 He won't stay hidden for long. Faith is the substance of things unseen.
@user-ot8mi6qh9dАй бұрын
I like the concept of god, however it is an idea based on ignorance
@elijad54985 ай бұрын
This post is about how atheism ruined my life. It denied the only true Kking of Kings Jesus Christ and suppressed the truth and tried to hide the True Light. It made a already sad life look even more hopeless until I found salvation in Jesus Christ. Darkness cannot extinguish the Light. I love to pray to God in the name of Jesus and get up and go to work and tell people of hope in Jesus! God is good!
@syahnovlikuartapama54014 ай бұрын
Yes keep being delusional pal
@DicyaninGlass2 ай бұрын
Why are you all like cancer…?!spreading to the parts of the world that has already gone through healing and recovery? Everywhere I turn, when I’m seeking truth, knowledge and practical understanding..here you come with your toxic, malignant beliefs onto happy and healthy individuals…it’s like you can’t stand that someone else is happy --everyone else must suffer with you and your Jesus evilness …if you are a sinner everyone else must be punished tooo!!! The narcissism is showing. No one else can share their truth without you turning it around to me me meeeeee…this video is about how MY life is ruined by no-god wahhhhh wahhh …
@WhoWellOk2 ай бұрын
@@syahnovlikuartapama5401chill bro not everyone has your experience
@wendykrikke85863 жыл бұрын
Me to i still believe in Jesus
@Kayykorea Жыл бұрын
I believe in Jesus too
@newnoggin26 ай бұрын
I believe Jesus was a deluded Rabbi.
@zayortiz58674 ай бұрын
The problem is people base a walk with Christ with others and their actions. Do your own reading of the Bible. Remember the only way the devil can hurt God is by hurting you. Our forefathers choose to create and participate in evil. Because they choose to be disobedient to God. God said don't put our hand in the fire because it will permanently hurt you. And we choose to do it anyway. However God does not do any of these bad things to you. It is people who choose this. In the Bible God says that the world is fallen and that there will be trails and tribulations. But as long as you truly make Jesus your Lord. You truly have faith in Him. You truly read His word and talk to Him(prayer) that you will be with Him in eternal and everlasting life. Never to go through another bad thing again. Stop basing a walk with Christ on people and their actions just because they claim to be something or claim to know something and lead you the wrong way. Base it off of God's word and what He does for you specifically. He loves you. He wants you. And He is waiting for you. Please just give it some thought. Religion and organization usually ruins a lot of people's lives because it is tainted with human judgement and management. Government fails us all the time. God however does not fail. If anyone has a question I would love to answer. I just want you all to be my brothers and sisters and get this peace I have to
@joecheffo59423 ай бұрын
These posts are proving his point. He never said he was basing it on people and their actions, he said he started to see the problems in the Bible. Can you just leave people alone? This is likely a completely crazy out of control cult at this point. Like zombies.
@joshconner7910 ай бұрын
God never promised this life would be easy he dosent save the flesh he saves the spiritual man
@kelvinhooks93997 ай бұрын
No proof!
@WhoWellOk5 ай бұрын
@@kelvinhooks9399 you only get that way because you didn't get your way
@kelvinhooks93995 ай бұрын
@@WhoWellOk what are you referring? I don't have a preference other than to know the truth!
@WhoWellOk5 ай бұрын
@@kelvinhooks9399 saying no proof is because you don't want it
@kelvinhooks93995 ай бұрын
@@WhoWellOk in reference to the christian deity I would say that I wouldn't care one of the other. If this deity is real and if the description of it is real according to the Bible then I would want nothing to do with it, if it's not real then all is well!
@patrickedgington58274 жыл бұрын
Sir you don't give your name....You say you were naive and that you are now embarrassed as a result. I want to say at the outset I agree with you that religion is at times devastating; and I find it…. I won’t say offensive necessarily, but I will say divisive. You have clearly been able to enter into an experience journey through and emerge….and you are here with something to say about the experience something to offer others in order that they may by your caution avoid traveling the same road. There should not be any embarrassment in that. What after all is life but a journey from one experience to the other? I suspect most of those who have commented and perhaps you as well are atheists. For the sake of transparency I will say at the beginning I am a Christian. I have spent time looking into various…. lets call them sects…..SDA, JW, Mormonism, Catholicism, I could go on the list is extensive even within the pale of orthodoxy. I however do not find that any of these groups or religious positions are capable of expounding on scripture, at least in a consistent and satisfactory scene. There may be a certain number of adherents within some of these groups that I would call Christian, currently searching that will in time leave these organisations but none of the organizations themselves are what I would call the church. They are counterfeits, but even if there are a thousand false gospels that cannot invalidate the one true gospel, it just makes it much more difficult to find. I watched part 1 and 2. I looked for 3 and didn’t find it. You don’t ultimately claim your conclusion is there is no God nor do you say Yeshua is not the Messiah. You don’t actually seem to draw any conclusions and you are not specific in terms of the damages you suffered. I will say that I did not have any problem with the question you posed out of Genesis. I would be happy to spend what time is necessary to answer you and would enjoy engaging you in conversation that has no other goal on my part than to help you find some of the clarity you said you went looking for. I don’t represent any organized religion. I have been involved with a few and experienced many of the same frustrations you point out. I always reframed from ponying up as it were. Not that I wasn’t willing to support the work of God but wanted to be sure that was in fact what I would be doing and honestly in the end never felt that would have been the case. So here I am on line doing what I can to dispel the misconceptions of many as to what Christianity is and what it is not. The first point I would make is that if God is real as any professing Christian would claim and powerful and interested in His children as we are identified as such the most reasonable assumption anyone could draw from that is experimentally He should be obvious…. My sheep know My voice; plainly ….A Christian, any Christian, every Christian, hears Him speak and I would say that many who would not claim to be Christian do hear Him perhaps without realizing it, and many that attend churches small c and identify as Christian don’t hear Him and would think to do so really unimaginable. So many that are called do not say I am Christian and many that are not are in church every Sunday but never saved. The second point I would make is that Biblical Christianity is the only kind there is. If an organization has added to scripture or taken away from it they are not Christian….All the groups I mentioned earlier do exactly that. So it is not about my opinion or yours or theirs. God either is or is not and scripture is the source of the claim….it can either defend itself or not and must absolutely be the only arbiter, only defining source. Just as Islam must be fully reliant on the Quran, Buddhism on the noble teachings. A person can take all of these and mix them about together forming something they ultimately find more satisfying but it will then be none of them. So if you ask a question I will give an answer from scripture or not at all. That said the third and final point I would make is that there are certain scholars that would present a picture of scripture as less than fully reliable and I would agree. Not that we don’t have the inerrant word of God but that that word is not necessarily found in a KJ version. So the scriptural sources I may draw on might have to go back to the original Greek, they might be based on the Septuagint rather than the Masoretic. I will though always give you my source and how to find it yourself. I am willing to present a reasoned case I am not willing to banter argue or put up with childish comments.
@patrickedgington58273 жыл бұрын
@@AK-gk6sd I can't know what you may or may not find clear but I can say that to be a man of religion is not the same thing as it is to be a Christian. However most confuse the one with the other. I don't and my comment was intended to differentiate between these two widely diffrent things in a world where blindness has taken the place of wisdom. Religion is an undertaking of men, involving definate practices intended to illicit a response from God. A God those involved never know. Christianity is an act of God where men are reborn spirituality and as such have living in them a Devine nature. They know God and are known by God. They do not act like they know God or attempt to curry His favor. They are His children and as such have His attention every day they are alive, at the time of their passing, and beyond. They live with the promise of the kingdom. One of these states is good, and should be desired, the other pretends to be and is a scourge. My desire is to make that clear to those lost within a faulse gospel. They believe in God of whom they have heard but do not know. If they love religion so be it, but if they love God, truth, and desire to know Him, to honestly hear Him, I want them to understand that posability exists, but is not realized through religion. Faith is a gift we receive from God through an encounter with Him. A thing that should be reasonable to anyone that claims God is real, God is powerful, God is their Father. Most though who attend a religious service while agreeing with all the statements made do not find it normal to hear Him. Not normal because most never have. Not normal becaues many that claim they have are clearly not Christian. Not normal because while they have a form of godliness they deny the power there of. I am not here to preach, I have nothing to sell, and the child of God has the Spirit and no need of my time. I am here to give a testimony. To say God is real, He is powerful, He is personal, and He is not found in religion, He is found in person. Accept it or don't, that's your call I have no stake in either.
@williamhawes700510 ай бұрын
It is God's will for you to be perpetually miserable.
@pam75006 ай бұрын
When you stand before God on judgment day, all the excuses in the world won't matter. The important question will be: What did you do with Jesus? Did you accept Him as your Savior, repent of your sins, live a Christian life by following God's word? Rejecting "religion" is fine. But don't reject the One Who gave Himself as a sacrifice for your sins so that you could enter heaven.
@BIGTOBEJO27 күн бұрын
@@pam7500that’s stupid.
@1ntothefray5832 ай бұрын
“I have Regret regarding my stupidity for being indoctrinated.“ • It just seems your heart was already hardened and you also didn’t have a good teacher. • Your arrogance of sin and negligence for the Love and faith of Christ is evident imo. • Praying for you
@lepidoptera93372 ай бұрын
I am thinking for you. ;-)
@randomland9088 Жыл бұрын
Pray to god, the scripture is indoctrination.... God isn't religion lololol
@gnhman1878 Жыл бұрын
Faith does not mean "Belief without evidence". That is the wrong definition of faith. For me, faith is like trusting, obeying and relying on God no matter what, even if you do not understand His ways and His plans, even if His plans and His ways do not seem to make sense to you, even if you do not understand God. Let me us this illustration: Imagine if you had a father who is a professional driver, and He is very good at driving cars. One day, you needed to move to a new school. So your father decided to drive you to school. You do not know the way to your new school, you do not know how a car works, you do not know how to drive a car, you do not know where the school is located at. But you trust in your father and hope that he would deliver you to your new school safely. That is kind of like what faith is. It is trusting and relying on something no matter what, even if you do not understand it. To be honest, I feel so bad for you and I hope that you will come back to Christ.
@newnoggin26 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, faith is the belief in something with absolutely no evidence. You must deal with it.
@joecheffo59423 ай бұрын
But if you never saw of heard from a man called your father, that would be weird to trust he would take you to school. Totally non comparable situation.
@gnhman18783 ай бұрын
@@newnoggin2 To start, The Bible itself does not even teach blind faith; The Bible teaches that faith and reason are compatible and must support each other. In Acts 17:1-4, we read that when Paul entered the synagogue in Thessalonica, he debated and reasoned with the Jews using the Scriptures in order to convince them that Jesus is the Messiah, and that He died for our sins and rose from the dead. Paul didn't just tell the Jews to just blindly believe in what he preached to them without any evidence; he used arguments and apologetics (Reasoning with the Jews using the Scriptures) in order to convince them that the Gospel is true. In Acts 19:8-10, we see a similar passage which states that Paul debated with the Jews and reasoned with them about the things concerning the Kingdom of God. In 1 Peter 3:15, Peter writes that we Christians must always be prepared to give an answer to those who ask us for the reason of the hope that is in us. Based on these passages in The Bible, it is clear that The Bible does not teach that faith is belief without evidence; that we should just blindly believe in the doctrines of Christianity, such as the existence of God, the resurrection of Christ etc. without any evidence at all. Faith is not the absence of evidence; it is the result or the effect of evidence. Evidence leads to credibility, and credibility leads to faith. Evidence is the seed of faith; evidence is the beginning of faith. For instance, we know that everything that Jesus said or taught must be true because He is God, and we know that He is God because of the historical evidence for His resurrection from the dead. In this example, the resurrection of Christ is the evidence, which leads to the conclusion that Jesus is God; which is credibility. Then, we have faith in whatever Jesus says; we have faith that all of His sayings are true, on account of His credibility, which is demonstrated apart from faith by evidence alone. Evidence begets credibility, and credibility begets faith.
@rodgerrabbit29557 ай бұрын
I don't know if loving Jesus is wrong because if it is, I don't want to be right. Jesus is the way the truth and the life, no one goes to the father except through him. John 14:6 People, you have free will to believe whatever way you want to. God gives that to you. Don't believe, do believe, it's your choice. God loves you and wants you to spend eternity with him, but if you don't want to, he gives you an alternative. He allows you to spend eternity with Satan instead. So, no big deal.......
@kelvinhooks93997 ай бұрын
If god is omniscient and omnipresent that would take away from the whole concept of free will and the whole thing of not choosing to want to spend eternity under the feet of some thin skinned egotistical unstable deity makes the alternative seem to be the lesser of two evils!
@runantelope42397 ай бұрын
@rodgerrabbit2955 In the nicest way possible, comments like yours are the reason people want to leave christainity
@WhoWellOk2 ай бұрын
@@kelvinhooks9399the problem is your creator can do whatever it wants the same way your CEO at work can do whatever it wants
@WhoWellOk2 ай бұрын
@@runantelope4239if they leave then leave it’s all good I don’t understand why when someone says ya if you leave it’s ok you can be with Satan I mean don’t atheists and ex Christian usually hype with screams of happiness that they’d love Satan more anyways so what’s the problem
@kelvinhooks93992 ай бұрын
@@WhoWellOk first I don't have a creator so NO. Secondly a CEO of a company cannot do whatever they want because of regulating laws that guide the business world and the laws of physics that will not allow a said CEO to disappear into thin air or jump 30 feet in the air or fly without some mechanical aid! That is a really dumb analogy!
@Thomas-lm1cn3 ай бұрын
Jesus is the only way to heaven, not manmade religion. You were so consumed by man made traditions that your life became a mess. If you truly want to get saved, all you have to do is to admit that you are a sinner, believe on the LORD Jesus Christ, and call upon his name with a contrite heart sincerely, he WILL save you from hell. If you choose to get truly saved, Jesus will fill that void in your heart, for he filled the gap that was in my heart after I got out of Babylon (Roman Catholicism).
@ga65892 ай бұрын
What credible evidence do you have for your claims?
@WhoWellOk2 ай бұрын
But isn’t Roman Catholic the first church after Jerusalem Church Also Jesus said his own church will turn against him and go through tribulations which the Roman Catholic Church is currently going through as it’s the most wicked
@Thomas-lm1cn2 ай бұрын
@@WhoWellOk NO. The roman catholic church was actually created by satan through emperor Constantine in 313 AD. Jesus calls the Roman Catholic Church the great whore of Babylon. The Roman Catholic Church, eastern/oriental orthodox churches, and eastern rite Catholic Churches were made to counterfeit the REAL Body of Christ.
@sulongenjop7436 Жыл бұрын
So sad and unfortunate, many people failed to find good spiritual life through Jesus! Why is it so difficult for many people to love God and love their neighbours? Jesus gives peaceful and joyful life through the feeling of love our God and love our neighbours. If one does these, one won't blame the religion for one's miserable life!!!
@omartorrio15128 ай бұрын
Excuse me, you come off as so smug. Obviously, you did not grow up in a terrifying religious environment where salvation was always in question and images of hellfire were very real. Why don't you show some empathy instead of pious judgment.
@sulongenjop74368 ай бұрын
@@omartorrio1512 Hope you find peace in Jesus!
@omartorrio15128 ай бұрын
@@sulongenjop7436 I appreciate your comment because I believe you are sincere. I also envy you if you have found peace with God. In my case, my belief in Jesus is what led to all my mental problems. I grew up with constant salvation and rapture anxiety because of my Pentecostal upbringing. I believe most atheists grew up in this type of environment. We simply get tired of being scared.
@sulongenjop74368 ай бұрын
@@omartorrio1512 Trust in and submit to Jesus wholeheartedly to God's/Jesus's will without feeling of excited and anxiety. Badmouthing and hatred to others can make our life stressful and unpeaceful because one is loveless of God.
@TheFracturedfuture8 ай бұрын
@@sulongenjop7436If fairy tales make you feel happy then more power to you. Not all of us are that gullible.
@mauricemenard22437 ай бұрын
Very sad that you did not understand that God is not a religion !!!Jesus is the only way !
@patrickfoley62156 ай бұрын
I have seen and interacted with souls on the other side. Jesus can be a way, but not the only way. If Jesus works for you and allows you to be your best, then rock on. The afterlife is not so black and white, heaven or hell. Through the powers found within one's brain, we can go where we desire in the after-life. There is more on how to do this, I just don't have the time to explain.
@mauricemenard22436 ай бұрын
You chat wit the wrong guy God allow me to remember when he create my soul and jesus IS the only way your wishfull thinking will bring you into darkness because God is light And Jesus is the expresion of the father.@@patrickfoley6215
@WhoWellOk5 ай бұрын
@@patrickfoley6215 explain then
@BIGTOBEJO27 күн бұрын
@@patrickfoley6215text me more abt it
@aligator95528 ай бұрын
For a people who claim to be so enlightened and intelligent, you all are so deluded when it comes to a belife in God or something bigger. Religion is a construct of man used to focus their belife of a higher power. With it being made of man, it is subjected to all the horrible flaws man can muster. To say you have given up on God because of a flawed religion is weak.
@kelvinhooks93997 ай бұрын
You can put god into that category of a man made construct as well.
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