Are you religious?

[blumen]

just curious. hope im not being too personal lol. i want to see how religion ties into suicidal thoughts

edit: for those who are religious, are there any rules on taking one's own life in your religion? if so, how does it make you feel?

 

[tasmaka]

Im not currently,
I grew up going to a private church academy, a very devoted family, but after a while when I began to think for myself I found it wasnt right for me.

Now I just hold my own moral values and stick by it, I have a slight belief in fate and spirits but nothing that really affects or moves me daily

 

[MBG]

Evangelical born again Christian

What brought me here? Physical effects of the Fall: a terminal and horrible (near the end) illness we can't cure, can't stop and can't really treat.

At the rate things are going I'm guessing I have one, maybe two more tolerable years so time to start checking off my bucket list that ends with a one-way trip to Switzerland….

My fear is loving this life too much and waiting too long and losing mental competency or physical capacity to take the "Swiss Option."

I just pray that God forgives me this one last major sin….

 

[kebnekaise]

Born and raised in a christian place but never personally was religious. I personally thought the idea of a god to be pretentious for me.
What sold it all for me were if there was a God or anything spiritual I would've been born in a body I could feel safe in.

 

[sick&tired]

Evangelical born again Christian

What brought me here? Physical effects of the Fall: a terminal and horrible (near the end) illness we can't cure, can't stop and can't really treat.

At the rate things are going I'm guessing I have one, maybe two more tolerable years so time to start checking off my bucket list that ends with a one-way trip to Switzerland….

My fear is loving this life too much and waiting too long and losing mental competency or physical capacity to take the "Swiss Option."

I just pray that God forgives me this one last major sin….

Ugh. I feel this
It seems like a lot of people on this site aren't believers. I definitely feel like the minority here, I like to refer to myself as Godly rather than religious though. I definitely believe there is a creator and although I struggle to grasp the idea of an afterlife, ultimately I do believe there is one.

 

[Tired_birth_1967]

No. God is too improbable. I believed as much as I could. I think it would take a lot of imagination, a lot of creation, to conceive of the existence of any god. It would also require disregarding everything that is known about life, with evidence and proof, to include an idea that, unfortunately, would only be a product of the imagination. In my view, that wouldn't make sense. I lost that creative capacity a long time ago, but I admire those who still possess it. I believe that, in some way, it helps.

 

[Ligottian]

I voted atheist. If it were an option, I might have voted Evil God.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, not at all anything to do with religion is completely fictional to me, no matter what to me existence will always be the most terrible, tragic mistake and I could never see a point to any of this, it's just terrible, dreadful unnecessary suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured.

I'd just never wish for this torturous, cruel existence of suffering all for the sake of it, to me existence will always be an abomination that just causes endless amounts of suffering, torture and agony all for the sake of it with existing beings tortured every second, no matter what this existence should never be imposed, I'll always see the existence of life as the most terrible, devastating tragedy that has only ever caused harm, for me only non-existence could ever be positive and desirable.

 

[frommetoyou]

i grew up between two religions since my mom and dad were muslim and christian respectively. i never was forced to be hardcore into either one, but to become muslim you have to either vow at the mosque or have it done when you were a baby, which happened to me. bc of that i lowk feel like i have some sort of weird cosmic obligation to it, but i dont follow it closely. my mom still follows it closely and just assumes and projects that i do too and i just say whatever to go along w it. no religion has rly made sense to me, ive always seen it as something that gives someone purpose and thats all.

 

[Awesomefoid67]

personally i don't think theres enough evidence to fully prove or disprove the existence of a god or gods or spirits/etc but i personally choose not to believe in them

 

[doomedbynarrative]

Agnostic cause there is just too damn much we humans don't freaking know about literally everything.

 

[Off_Switch]

I am a devout member of the Church of SaSu. The only denomination of people that speak of anything real and believable.

 

[UserFromNowhere]

Agnostic, which does partially influence my views on death. I do holistically believe that we are relatively insignificant as individual people, even if the species itself is capable of great feats, so our deaths will not matter in the cosmic scheme of things. I also imagine that if there is an all-loving God, they would be merciful and not send us to eternal suffering merely for not believing in them, rather judging our actions in life as to whether we acted in a manner that did not seek to harm others. It is why I am convinced that after death, there will be either eternal peaceful nothingness, or a bliss of acceptance and understanding that I've never received in life. If I end up condemned to hell or purgatory, my experience is no worse than the lowest I've felt living on this Earth, and I have no fear of it.

 

[Black Sheep One]

I am also a Christian. I know I am going to die. To know Christ and to die is gain. This is confirmed by Paul in Philippians 1:21. If I do not know Christ and die, I go to hell. I consider this as a loss and not a good option. Should there not be a heaven, hell or Christ, I will die as a fool. Because of the large number of Bibles and Churches, I place my faith in Christ. I will gain in Heaven or be in good company as fool.

There is a God. I crudely defined it as everything in the universe minus my limited brain and ability to comprehend all. It is the missing electron path at the bottom of the Atheist atom symbol.

I am here because I see death as a long, slow, and torturous process. A process that is already occurring. You know the standard old age problems. Hearing loss, eye site loss, memory loss, don't walk or run as well any more, just to name a few. I desire the ability to leave this life. I do not wish to spent my last dying as a unknown person in a nursing home. I pray I do not end up this way. I also pray that God forgive me if and when I decide to end my life.