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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 22 Apr \ on: Views on religion culture
I was born in a Christian family and ever since I can remember I've always felt something was "off" with their teaching.
Luckily for me, I kept for myself all the reasoning and self analysis I did, and now I live as a "stealth atheist" in my family, as they would be strongly shaken by the fact that I don't believe in anything.
What made me question religion in general is how people handled other religions from the one they followed:
"Anyone's religion should be respected and everyone should have the freedom to pray for their own God/s."
Those are wonderful words that teach to give anyone the right to hold their personal beliefs, yet that also states that every religion is "the correct one" which was quite confusing for my tiny brain at the time.
Then I also noticed how my family interpreted said teaching, people following other religions were looked at with pity, and older abandoned religions talked about as blasphemy or ignorance.
As I looked for an answer, the only things I could find were:
- Philosophical quotes that could be said by any religion regardless of what God/s they represented
- Some set of rules to follow to not be "evil"
- A grand price at the end that I could only enjoy after I'm a lifeless corpse.
So here's my final and personal answer:
"There's nothing to believe apart from your own actions and morals. Follow them and you'll die without regrets."
After this realization my life has been much happier and more relaxed, no rules to follow or grand price to obtain apart from being able to appreciate life and nature, if I help someone I do so out of free will, not for fear of being judged.
Even if, in the end, I'm proven to be wrong, a higher being as a God will surely forgive a poor human for doubting them.