What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you while being religious?

What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you while being religious?

For me, it has been locked in a closet for asking to many questions about religion when I was a young girl. Yes I was put through a gauntlet of adoption homes. I am going to leave it at that.

I would like to hear your story. If you are brave enough to let others know your plight. I am sure it would make others have a breath of fresh air that they are not alone in this process of terror. I know just letting the world this tiny factoid about me has done me a world of good.

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Permalink Reply by Kari Stills on November 18, 2010 at 9:39am

I suppose this is hard for everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on November 18, 2010 at 10:05am

Religion has a lot of effects in the long run.

When I was a believer, I think the worst thing was that I fell back at school. Not only school, but in any little thing that could have improved my life in the future. Waste of time. Depression. Fear of 'the devil'. Fear of thinking. Being imprisoned in my own mind.

I think all those are the consequence of not being allowed to think free. I felt in a cage. Good thing i'm out.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Shockley on September 8, 2011 at 7:41pm

You just wrote my story...couldn't agree more.

The hard thing is trying to "catch up" later in life.

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Permalink Reply by IEatDinosaurMeat on September 16, 2011 at 2:16am

Home schooling made this all a bit more of a staple in the head for me... Adjusting has been quite the thing.

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Permalink Reply by Hameed on November 19, 2010 at 7:08am

trying to go to Iraq to fight American
LOL
what I fu**ed up day it was

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on November 20, 2010 at 3:45pm

Not a lot that was bad happened to me when I was religious, at least not that was religion-related. I know I'm fairly lucky in that respect, and it does make for a fun response when I am asked (as so many of us are) what horrible thing happened to make me 'hate God'.

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Permalink Reply by Cathleen Sessions on November 20, 2010 at 7:21pm

It is not that bad for me. I just felt there was something lacking in me that I couldn't feel the spirit like everyone else seemed to. It did not help my chronic depression.

I really wanted that mountian-top feel and the euphoria of knowing. Never got there. I did think it was all my own fault and it was because I was too rational to fall for it. Accepting that about myself was great freedom.

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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on November 21, 2010 at 1:23am

What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you while being religious?

You mean, aside from being religious?

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Permalink Reply by STEVIE NICHOLL on September 16, 2011 at 8:09am

That was gonna be my answer :)

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Permalink Reply by Mike Rotch on July 4, 2011 at 1:34am

The mental torture from being taught that certain things you think about constitutes sinning, like some sort of magical facist thought police and by doing so I'd go to hell.

Drove me crazy bro!

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Permalink Reply by Cori Johnson on September 15, 2011 at 9:27pm

When I was in 8th grade I had lost my virginity. & when my mother found out she went back on her recently made promise & beat me, she punched me kicked me, stomped be & called me a dirty bitch the whole time. After that she made me see a therapist, who not only was a friend of hers but a Christian therapist as well. For the 6 months I saw her I'm sure she was telling me mother of everything I said. During the sessions she would ask why I acted against god and had sex & do I think Jesus would help me & make me a better person...