I was brought up very religiously but after suffering from OCD and depression for over 12 years and calling out to god for help with no response, it seems there most likely is no god to help us. Which means nobody is in control, human beings are free to do whatever they want to each other, is there no hope? This scares me.
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odette
Student
- Feb 5, 2019
- 149
I was also brought up religious and felt God to be cruel and oppressive. It was a relief to me to think maybe he doesn't exist. I still fear he might.
WhiteRabbit
I'm late, i'm late. For a very important date.
- Feb 12, 2019
- 1,648
Aren't human beings already free to do what they want to each other? With all the violence and misery in the world, it sure feels that way.
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
It's comforting to me. It means I don't have to worry about an afterlife or an eternity of hell after leaving this world.
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
Even with a god, aren't humans free to do what they want, just with an added layer of consequences?
Yes, but with a god, you'd expect retribution in this life or the next otherwise it's just chaos and injustice.
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
Humans never agree with god's version of justice in almost any religion though. If this kind of stuff worries you, I'd recommend reading about existentialism, nihilism, and absurdism.
Macc Lad
Specialist
- Jan 22, 2019
- 300
i asked him to help me lose 2-3 stone.....strangely it's not happened......what more proof do you need!!
Didymus
Clutching at invisible straws
- Dec 11, 2018
- 348
I truly wish I was an atheist and I wish nothing would make sense. Then I wouldn't worry at all deciding to ctb nor care about anyone. But I'm not and fear the unknown.
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
What is your religion? Go to Reddit and find the subforum for people who left your religion. Exmormon, exmuslim, exchristian
Didymus
Clutching at invisible straws
- Dec 11, 2018
- 348
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
There still might be something if you search. Or post on the atheism subreddit and ask for ideas.
I was religious for a long time.
After a while , I used to think what is god doing sitting up there when there are so many disastrous things happening here ? As a human being, I can't stand some things goin on infront of my eyes, will try to stop. But, what is she/he doing being aware of all the things that are going on? I felt it better to believe there is no god. That is the only way some things made sense to me.
Its just justifying that this place is messed up because there is no one in charge of it. This is just my belief.
After a while , I used to think what is god doing sitting up there when there are so many disastrous things happening here ? As a human being, I can't stand some things goin on infront of my eyes, will try to stop. But, what is she/he doing being aware of all the things that are going on? I felt it better to believe there is no god. That is the only way some things made sense to me.
Its just justifying that this place is messed up because there is no one in charge of it. This is just my belief.
It just gives me more questions than answers. Why would the universe just create me, just why.
cornflowerblue
Mage
- Feb 18, 2019
- 553
The scary reality is that lots of things just "are", with no reason.
The moment God died in my life (totally - completely; no hereafter, simply nothing!) was in fact - next to it being a process of years I might say - a very sudden moment. Someone I totally adored or even worshipped made it clear that there would be literally nothing left of us. I was flabbergasted! I remember enthusiastically dancing around in my appartment with my dog .... singing NO HAND ABOVE ME! I am Free! I saw the *light*!;) The interesting is; I wasn't even aware of the possibility that this kind of awareness could exist: Oblivion, total emptiness. And it got me from the moment I heard. I had lived a huge lie as so many of us. All I had believed before just paled by comparison to oblivion, in conviction. Doubts about anything after or above were gone from that moment on. I was free. Well ok, no fear about ghosts any longer but burglars instead... etc. No black without white ey ;)
Redt2go
flower child
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1,643
Well I meant; my fear for ghosts was gone but instead my focus on burglars (in the middle of the night) and so the more material things of life did increase (well that's what I assume).
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ThisIsTheLastNight
Weakness is the root of all evil
- Jan 29, 2019
- 74
The same thing happened to me. From one moment to the next i saw the world with completely different eyes. It was like i've seen the world through a veil all my life. I see for the first time how the world really is and it is ugly. I wish I had recognized it earlier, then my life would have been very different. But what you get taught as a child and in which so many people believe, you stay true for a long time, too long, unfortunately there are people who only learn that they are wrong when it is too late, and unfortunately i am one of them.
Wow .. yea I so get that. I thought I was the only one with that sudden switch but no... I ain't!
Thank you for sharing.
I've never believed in god, or that there's anything after death. I think people believe that there's something after death simply because it's almost impossible for a person to imagine not existing.
odette
Student
- Feb 5, 2019
- 149
When I was a kid, I actually thought I was the first person ever, in the entire history of the world, to think that maybe there isn't a god. 
Norest4thewicked
Losing it
- Nov 4, 2018
- 270
I turned atheist at 15. Never looked back.
WhiteRabbit
I'm late, i'm late. For a very important date.
- Feb 12, 2019
- 1,648
The concept of retribution in the next life has always felt like something humans made up because they want it to be true. To make sense of all the injustice in the world. Just like heaven is a concept humans made up to ease the fear and finality of death. Or I could be wrong and everything in the Bible and books like it is true, who knows?
Redt2go
flower child
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1,643
We'll find out when we die lol
"It sets you free...Every humiliation you suffer will be forgotten....Every mistake you made, will not matter in the end...Every bad thing you did would be voided..."
Vaughn
Experienced
- Feb 21, 2019
- 227
I am an atheist- it took a lot of balls for my acceptance that there is nothing after this, Nothing to make everything alright after this life. I will not meet my long gone relatives - nothing after all this - ZIPPO NIL, NADA...
I still believe despite everything. It is hardwired.
I have faith things will be better when i get rid of life.
But no hope and want for life.
I have faith things will be better when i get rid of life.
But no hope and want for life.
There could be...even a staunch Atheist like Dawkins said...on a scale of 1 to 7 (1 being there is a god, 7 being there is no god)...he is a 6.5...but, nothing like the personal God, we make it out to be....something entirely different...
