I recently wrote an article on NoFakeNews about fear-based relationships. I discussed the Abrahamic religions because they are the fear-based belief constructs that most people in America are familiar with.
A visitor to this website sent me the article featured above and asked me to comment on the subject.
As I wrote in my recent post, I believe most religions are unhealthy because they create unreasonable and unrealistic environments for their members and coerce people to live certain lifestyles not because they love God but because they fear eternal condemnation.
I have personally come across patients in my private practice and people in other social circles who were so psychologically hurt, in my unprofessional opinion, because just about anything they did in life they viewed as a sin that jeopardized their path to heaven.
There are intelligent people out there who believe if they eat or drink something before the sun reaches a certain point in the sky, they’re going to hell!
It’s a, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a sin
But Is It Really?
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Haha! 🤣 For sure, John! That’s the real Hell, indeed!
Lisa
That’s too funny, Lisa! I guess we grew up in similar situations. My family was Catholic, too. I never believed in that heaven and hell narrative, even from an early age.
Thank Vast Intelligence (haha) for my parents being open-minded people. Later in my life, my parents understood what I was speaking about.
My wife had to deal with similar stuff as well, coming from a catholic family and going to a Catholic school.
If people want to believe that story, I am not getting in their way, but it’s not for me and never has been.
I told my parents early on this Christianity thing might be good for you, but it’s not gonna fly for me.
I am a good person, and I know the realm was created by intelligent design, not by a ridiculous explosion. But, I am not interested in genuflecting to imaginary saviors who have been written into existence by our controllers to keep us paralyzed with fear.
I was telling my parents by age ten that I believed in reincarnation, and there was no heaven or hell unless you considered the time I had to spend in mass and Sunday School classes. 🤣
John
John, in my opinion, there is a big difference between intellect and consciousness awareness. I have such a hard time understanding how many intelligent people can become so swallowed up by religious teachings. Even as a child attending a Catholic church every Sunday (God forbid if you missed mass) I was baffled by the ridiculousness of the entire thing. Just the whole belief system really. Sorry, that’s just how I personally feel about it.I realize for some it is their salvation.
And, unfortunately, my dad was religious along with his entire family. My beautifully kind grandmother (my dad’s mom) played the organ in her church. My own mother was Methodist. She had to sign papers stating that her children were to be raised Catholic.
Also, my siblings and I attended Catachism faithfully every week. And I suppose that on some level I was brainwashed, and believed some of the nonsense for a time.
Although as teenagers, my older brother and I would lie and skip church. 😂 He could drive, and we would just ride around for awhile.
But I honestly don’t remember feeling fearful of hell or anything else. I thought it to be all crazy!
So, as I got older I started researching other belief systems. Not religious teachings, just other belief systems.
Although I don’t believe that I was traumatized by my religious experience. I just did not appreciate or believe in it. I knew it wasn’t for me.
However, I have a couple of cousins who had been alter boys in the Catholic church while growing up, and apparently they had both been sexually assaulted by a priest. They had certainly been traumatized by their religious experience. And that makes you wonder how many victims there are of sexual abuse in the Catholic church or other religions.
Also, when I first got married, (We married in my mother’s Methodist church.) my husband’s parents had friends that were Seventh Day Adventists. And when they came over to visit we had to play Skip-Bo. We couldn’t use regular playing cards. I guess that’s too closely related to gambling. Even though there was no gambling involved. I just thought it was silly. But I was okay with playing Skip-Bo.
But all the ridiculous rules they put in place to make people paranoid about sinning, and going to hell.
And I didn’t know what to make of the confessional at church. “Bless me father for I have sinned,” is what you were taught to say. Implying that you have sinned, and that you always had to be saved.
I actually became saved when I went on to believe in my own higher self and consciousness. In my youth I had a severe alcohol addiction. And it wasn’t until I started understanding that the power was within myself that I became well. I now have over 33 years of sobriety.
So, although I wouldn’t go so far as to say I was traumatized by my religious upbringing, I think I was too aware for that. But I do believe it did hold me down. And I also believe it may have contributed to my not believing in myself. However, there were other factors as well.
Lisa