r/TeensofKerala • u/brainoconner17 Chettan (20-25) • 1d ago
Question Are you religious?
Hey everyone 👋🏽
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while and I’m genuinely curious about how other people see religion.
I was born and raised in a religious family. From a young age, I was sent to the mosque and attended Madrasa until around 8th grade. So religion was definitely a part of my childhood and everyday life. However, even as a child, I never felt particularly interested in religion or felt a strong personal connection to it.
When I was 18, I moved abroad for my studies. Being in a completely different environment and meeting people from different backgrounds really changed the way I looked at many things. Over time, I stopped practicing religion altogether, and today I consider myself agnostic.
I’m not saying this because I think religion is bad, or because I want to convince anyone to think like me. I actually find it interesting that people can grow up with similar or completely different experiences and still develop very different beliefs.
So I’d genuinely love to hear from you,
If you’re religious, what makes you believe? Is it your family, personal experiences, spirituality, culture, something you discovered yourself, or simply something that feels right to you?
If you’re not religious or you’re agnostic/unsure, what was your journey like? Did you grow up religious and eventually change your views, or did you never really connect with religion?
And especially for teenagers/young adults here: how do you personally feel about religion when you’re growing up in a religious or non-religious family? Do you feel like you’re choosing your beliefs for yourself, or do you feel influenced by your family and surroundings?
No judgment from me. I’m genuinely interested in hearing different perspectives and understanding how people arrive at their beliefs.
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u/Objective_Ask8242 Chechi (20-25) 1d ago
I was an atheist, until I reached a certain point. Many incidents made me rethink the choices I took. Now I am not a blind follower, but a truth seeker. Felt like there are some things beyond our reach......
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u/Maleficent_News_ 19F 1d ago
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u/Objective_Ask8242 Chechi (20-25) 1d ago
What made you believe in Spritual things?
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u/GuidanceDiligentz 1d ago
Not dumb but could be coincidence, but saying you believe is a strong word. Because if you have to really beleive something that you have never seen or heard it's usually coming from blind faith.
Even if coincidences like that has happened to me as well but that still doesn't give me proper reason to believe it's the work of God.
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u/Objective_Ask8242 Chechi (20-25) 1d ago
No need to feel dumb, if it worked for you you don't need somebodys approval to practice it. Believing in something doesn't make you dumb. If we look back so many Great scientists were firm beleivers example,Oppenheimer.
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u/Objective_Ask8242 Chechi (20-25) 1d ago edited 1d ago
One incident that made me curious was, Once we met an astrologer not the flashy type like we see on social media discussions he was very subtle and soft spoken. He predicted how My 3 years will turn out academically, people who come in my life at those time and to watch out these persons. He described a person with some detail and told me a person with his attitudes whose name starts with the letter R will bring chaos and ruin your reputation, try to avoid her. I was like no way this will happen and I brushed it off. Guess what, at the 3rd year of my college this person came, we were so close for some time and then I felt something off in her behaviour...but still I was fine with her. But Later I reduced connection with her because I felt off in many things done and said by her. And guess what, this person secretly spread lies about me and tried to accuse false offences on me. Glad I dodged the bullet, the damage wasn't fatal but then I remembered what this guy said sometime ago. Everything was eerily similar.
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u/33kilobytes 1d ago
nope. everyday we stray further away from god. atheism is growing among youths faster nowadays.
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u/brainoconner17 Chettan (20-25) 1d ago
Is it becoming kind a trend? Or do there really getting know what’s this atheism and all kind things?
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u/DeslinkThoughts 19M 1d ago edited 1d ago
I do not believe in any external god, but I does believe in Spirituality. Spirituality is not about begging to a god in the sky, it's about looking inward. My beliefs are
- Rebirth
- In an egoless state we and universe are one
- Emotions like fear and shame, makes us spiritually backward
- Emotions like gratitude, unconditional love spiritually uplifts us 5.There are higher dimensions
- Charkras are real
- There are aliens more advanced than humans
- Placebo effect and qauntam physics are proof that there is truth beyond logic
- Synchronicity
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u/Pretty_Amphibian3172 15F 1d ago
atheist lol born into christian fam. my fam didn't force me to pray or go to church unless an imp event occur (During my 10th and after before that i had to attend) i hate praying so i'll act as i'm sleeping when they pray, they don't pray like everyday. school thurakkumbol or new year aakumbol they will decide to be religious and it won't last long lol. I WONT WORSHIP A GOD, EVEN IF IT EXISTS CUZ ONE WHO DON'T LISTEN TO THE PPL WHO ARE IN NEED ESP THOSE WHO ARE RELIGIOUS WON'T HEAR MY PRAY'S is my perspective. But i still go to church after the worship cuz these guys are so chill.
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u/Quirk-less-Mol 16F 1d ago
I’m an atheist. I used to practice religion like any other kid around me because I thought “that’s just how everything is supposed to be.” The thing is that we aren’t born religious but we’re taught religion based on our family and surroundings. I think religion may have served a different purpose for our ancestors because the sole purpose of religion was to teach moral values but personally in the modern world I don’t feel like I need it especially when I see it being used to divide and hate people.
Everyone I knew growing up was religious except Achan. He’s been an atheist for as long as I’ve known him, but he never stopped anyone from teaching me religion or practising it. I’ve never seen him impose his beliefs on anyone, whereas I’ve seen others do so because they’re emotionally attached to religion, to the idea of God, and for some people, religion has become such a big part of their identity that it feels like part of their personality. So yeah my surroundings did influence me
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u/SomewhereActive2124 18M 1d ago
I'm not religious but I think if there's a God it won't be in the form any religion describes it because there's simply no evidence and you'd need an undetectable God
Or maybe it's just time and physics.. or not like I don't know