My personal painful experience with religion

[Lightmaker5]

You know I also was a believer once growing up in a Christ like family. We had to move countries because we had nothing to live on. Part of my family stayed there. And died eventually. The last day I saw them is when we left. I was still a kid then. But eventually I started question the gods. And one day I went so far I even intended to defeat god the almighty. I grew the impression all gods truly care about is themselves. So I literally trained to defeat god. And I knew I had to become stronger than anybody else if I wanted to defeat him. I was hard on myself too that time. I promised to myself to never cry again because I didn't want to feel weak towards my arch enemy. It was hard to suppress the pain at first, but I never let myself cry. And I haven't since then ever. That was 2011. My hatred and rage against god grew truly unbeatable. I was capable of what Kratos and Gorr did. No I never let out my ultimate anger on anybody else. But towards gods I was willing and able to do just that. That was the day I discarded my life and accepted hell. Also when I lost my fear of death. I wasn't even afraid of the devil. I was able to fight anyone who'd dare stand in my way. Archangels, all of them. I questioned all the gods. Only 2016 I had the ultimate enlightenment. I solved why the universe exists and how it exists. I saw there's no god. I also grew that kind of negative thinking that even aliens don't like me. I was like Gorr literally not knowing who my friend is. I thought they're all my enemies. I thought they all want to see me suffer. You can imagine my destructive rage. The only thing changed everything is the fact that I found out gods don't exist. They never did. There are only false gods in the universe. But no true god.

Don't understand my post wrong it is not made to offend anyone. This is my personal experience story with religion. Religion does not make peace this is what I have learned in my life journey.

Have you questioned the gods? Do you have a similar story?

 

[Anasa]

Seriously.Are "defeat the God" is a metaphor about positive life style in good scores and fitness and so on？

 

[Morell]

Sorry to hear about your loss of home and family members. That sucks.

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Seriously.Are "defeat the God" is a metaphor about positive life style in good scores and fitness and so on？

I wish it was, but it seems that our friend here is rather literal:

I'm like Lucifer and stronger. I'm the king of hell. I'm not evil, I simply beat it. If I understood you right, I challenge them all. Let's see who's really stronger.

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Have you questioned the gods? Do you have a similar story?

I definitely do not have the similar story. And since I didn't grow up in Abrahamic religion, I wasn't exposed to the religion in this way. Thanks tot hat I didn't have that negative position towards religion, though I heavily dislike Abrahamic religions. But There are spirits and gods I respect and am friend with. Also the angel who is of great honor and help to me.

Though, Even through my anger I must say that gods and spirits are fine, it's humans wo mess up their religions.

 

[Dascent]

Indeed OP it is an unfortunate experience yet I don't believe you reached its end.
You learned about a god.. a perspective, an experience of some authority, be it family, school, church or whatever.
You haven't discovered your God yet because you were though it lives outside of yourself.
Sounds like a cliche but it is not.
Don't search for God outside of your heart.
God is what you love, god is your family, your life experience even if it was rough, painful, real god, the one which resides within will never go against you, if you choose to fight God, then it will let you do that. If you choose to hate god, then it will let you hate.
God within is the most quiet voice you will ever hear when you look outside of yourself to battle, to revenge, to lash out...
But it becomes the most harmonious voice when you had enough, when you stop the rage, the pain, when you feel exhausted to fight and you take a deep breath, when you wipe your tears, when the node in your throat is released, when you look in your heart, God never left that placed, it cried with you, it wept with you, it screamed and hit its cest in pain with you. It is there all along, not in a book, not above the clouds, not in teachings of others, not in darkness or light... of course there is no external God.
Take a look into the mirror, look deep, not only the surface. Deep within, among all other expressions, among all other experiences, you see the reflection of God. I feel so much pain because it takes people to find their God within, to recognize themselves as part of the existence.
How to find God if you are the God searching?
A flame doesn't cast a shadow.

Many christians blame religion and for a good reason, their experience with religion is valid, is true. But not the religion is the one generating the negative experience but the ones who control religion.

Religion didn't started wars, men did. religion didn't ki!led, r@ped and destroyed, but men did.
Some religions do promote good teachings like do not ki!l, do not r@pe and many other useful things, yes some using fear ideas to serve a purpose otherwise we would of got extinct like dinosaurs because it would of been the law of the strongest.
Religion is a tool, who manipulates the tool is to be held responsible.
A knife doesn't decide on its own if to cut meat or flesh... the hand which wields the blade is responsible.

Be well, don't worry, maybe you haven't found Your God right now, but know it never lost you.

 

[zamradiel]

I can relate. I rejected Christianity at an early age. I went to Catholic school from six to eleven, and one day during "religion class", the teacher said something that deeply unsettled me: "Your earthly parents are not your real parents—your true father is God in heaven."

Even at that age, I remember the surge of disgust.. the instinctive no. I pushed back against the idea with everything in me (the full force of the will). It felt wrong, invasive.

That said, I hold no ill will toward Christianity or those who follow it. Over time, whatever residual "what if" feelings or existential dread I carried simply dissolved. The question no longer stirs anything in me - not rebellion, not fear, just neutrality.

My own stance is what I've come to call "Against the Light", borrowing the phrase from Kenneth Grant. It's not born of hatred or cosmic defiance, but of recognition: the Light burns away what precedes it - the Dark. And it's in that Darkness that I've found the lessons that resonate most with me.

It's not a moral statement about good or evil... just an acknowledgment of where my current flows.

You know I also was a believer once growing up in a Christ like family. We had to move countries because we had nothing to live on. Part of my family stayed there. And died eventually. The last day I saw them is when we left. I was still a kid then. But eventually I started question the gods. And one day I went so far I even intended to defeat god the almighty. I grew the impression all gods truly care about is themselves. So I literally trained to defeat god. And I knew I had to become stronger than anybody else if I wanted to defeat him. I was hard on myself too that time. I promised to myself to never cry again because I didn't want to feel weak towards my arch enemy. It was hard to suppress the pain at first, but I never let myself cry. And I haven't since then ever. That was 2011. My hatred and rage against god grew truly unbeatable. I was capable of what Kratos and Gorr did. No I never let out my ultimate anger on anybody else. But towards gods I was willing and able to do just that. That was the day I discarded my life and accepted hell. Also when I lost my fear of death. I wasn't even afraid of the devil. I was able to fight anyone who'd dare stand in my way. Archangels, all of them. I questioned all the gods. Only 2016 I had the ultimate enlightenment. I solved why the universe exists and how it exists. I saw there's no god. I also grew that kind of negative thinking that even aliens don't like me. I was like Gorr literally not knowing who my friend is. I thought they're all my enemies. I thought they all want to see me suffer. You can imagine my destructive rage. The only thing changed everything is the fact that I found out gods don't exist. They never did. There are only false gods in the universe. But no true god.

Don't understand my post wrong it is not made to offend anyone. This is my personal experience story with religion. Religion does not make peace this is what I have learned in my life journey.

Have you questioned the gods? Do you have a similar story?

 

[Beyond Everything]

I was (thankfully) raised without any sort of religion. That coupled with all sorts of interesting paranormal experiences as a child and an ability to think for myself led me to my idiosyncratic but supremely fruit-bearing path.

Fullness of yourself and immortality vs subsuming yourself in religious energies (of whatever sort, so-called left, right or middle path).

Religious energies put blinders on people. One insidious way is inhibiting the ability to actually assess (esp on subtle planes) the effects of these things.