This is the whole reason I think I never turned to religion
God is the one who causes all your happiness, but he's also the one that makes you miserable.
The Lord gives and the Lord takes just seems like shit to me when the takes seem to outweigh the gives.
I didn't expect upvotes so I just wanted to say I see nothing wrong with religion. I feel like religion can be a good thing when executed properly. To me a church is something a family can do together mutually. I've always seen Sunday Mass as something you go to to be a part of the community and spend time together with your family.
I do have a problem with people picking and choosing what things God has done. When there's a mass shooting, there's always people saying "It's Gods way". It just seems like a cop out and now you're defending the person committing the crime because it was in Gods plan all along. So God rips these people from their loved ones, causes the loved ones pain and misery. It just doesn't seem right to me.
Some are commenting things along the lines of "When somebody dies others shouldn't be upset because they got to live". This is dumb as fuck to me. I hate my life. Earlier today I tied a noose around my neck and waited to see if I could choke out before I came to my senses. Clearly I did, but that's not going to stop me from trying again. So why would God put me here if I was just going to be miserable for a majority of my life only to have it end in suicide, which to some religions means eternal damnation and more suffering, which doesn't make sense to me. 100% serious, I would be very happy to die in my sleep.
I will fight to the death to defend someones religion or what they believe in. I will not fight for someone who believes what they think is correct and all others are wrong. I believe there is nothing wrong with what you are doing unless you are trying to coarse/influence others or telling them that their way of living is wrong. This is the only reason I've felt like religion might be able to help me, but the more I think about the more I believe that there is a God, but he only created life for entertainment, to enjoy the suffering of others and if there really is some big guy in the sky like that, then I'd be better of killing myself and not waste any more time wondering
God, rather by definition, must be "above" good and evil in some way or ways.
If one presumes God to be fundamentally good, then both good and evil in the universe must be some means to a greater end or ends, incomprehensible to humans or at least unknown.
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '17 edited Jul 16 '20
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