Discussion anyone else DESPISE when others involve religion in topics like these?

[EvisceratedJester]

I remember when I told my mom about my suicide attempts a few months back and later in the day she suggested that I should start going to church and looking into spirituality. I still wanted to die back when I believed in Jesus and all of that crap so I doubt it would make much of a difference. If spirituality couldn't bring me any comfort when I was a child then it won't do shit for me as an adult who doesn't even like religion (I became an atheist/agnostic near the end of elementary school). I understand that she wasn't trying to be mean or anything and this topic hasn't been brought up since, but man do I hate when people suggest getting into religion whenever somebody expresses being suicidal or not finding value in life. Especially when a lot of religious people also ctb. Like, if your religion couldn't save them then I would think that it's safe to assume that the main issue isn't a lack of spirituality.

 

[moonlight gate]

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

What we call religion is merely organized belief, with its dogmas, rituals, mysteries and superstitions. Each religion has its own sacred book, its mediator, its priests and its ways of threatening and holding people.

Most of us have been conditioned to all this, which is considered religious education; but this conditioning sets man against man, it creates antagonism, not only among the believers, but also against those of other beliefs.

Though all religions assert that they worship God and say that we must love one another, they instill fear through their doctrines of reward and punishment, and through their competitive dogmas they perpetuate suspicion and antagonism."

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti


When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."
― Jiddu Krishnamurti