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I Lost My Religion

i stopped going to church since 7 months ago. today i found that i was removed from the whatsapp grp of a cell grp i once joined there.

i removed myself from 3 other church related grps.

i wanted to leave those whatsapp grps since i left the church but was just too embarrassed to do so and lest i would affect other people s faith. now by being removed and removing myself, i should close this "trying to seek direction for life from religions" chapter and start a new life with a clear mind.

you dont need to be a believer of a religion to be a good, ethical and wise person.

there has been some discomfort meeting ex acquaintances from church, both from me and from them, i can see. people perhaps see me as a traitor. but after some time, i act pretty much like back to normal; they may perhaps still feel embarrassed. it always seems to me that, the so called love from christianity stops outside church, and especially excluding quitters.

i cannot care. i remind myself to have the courage to be disgusted. no one could be liked by everyone. and i dont believe there is a place where everyone likes everyone equally; i used to believe that naively but of course now i dont, it will never work, the world never works like that, in any grps in the world.

it s my life and it s great to control and accept myself. it s great to spend my free time the way i find meaningful, rather than confronting with people who demand and request too much from you because they have the authority, whose orders and decision i cannot agree with. i dont feel blessed working for other bosses after work. there are always people who think if they have good intention then everything they do is right. it s sick.

blessed was i being enlightened and took the courage to quit and decide for my own life.

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to my ex-aquaintances from church: just as i respect your religion, please respect my choice to quit and what (not) to believe.
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Cierzo · M
There is one thing I am sure about religion:it is a personal thing.

I have hated religion for many years because I could not stand church people behaving like sheep, having to follow rules about to behave in their private and public life, and even telling then which political views are more 'suitable'.

I follow the Christian message to a large extent (although there is a part of it that I admit makes me cringe, the universalism and being too soft with enemies), and realise how important its Christian roots are for my country, but organised religion is only one of the many ways to God, not better than taking a walk in nature and gazing at its wonders, for instance. And keeping and loving God in your heart has nothing to do with having to keep a certain public persona.
Sssslm · F
Yet people at church insist that Christians should go to church, quote the bible saying that meeting on earth must be continued, and that 3 people would make a group. And they say that you cannot say you are a true Christian without going to church because your self study and interpretation could be wrong.

Believing in this religion doesn't make them wiser. They are living anti-thesis of religion.
This is not how I was taught to be as a Christian. Different churches, it seems. @Sssslm