It really depends. If its the candy land full of rainbows that religions claim, then yes, without a doubt, but if god exists and despite all this crap, I meet the requirements, then still I don't think I'd be allowed in the cloud kingdom or wtf ever. If this god person exists, then he/she must really hate me. However, I'm leaning towards the atheist side. I think it's a really stupid idea that puts false hope in peoples head and stops them from having fun. Believing in God is extremely damaging. If you're around a believer you've likely been told, "God helps those who help themselves" "God only gives us what we can handle" "You hear god with your heart" "Just have faith(and probably something about things turning out for the better because of god.etc)" "All good things come from god" your life circumstances are "part of god's plan" .etc Everything there is extremely untrue of how the world works.
1."god helps those who help themselves"-first of all, I try to help myself all the time and my life is still garbage. I've been bullied and fired at almost every job I've taken. I joined a workforce program for 9 weeks at a great job where people were kind. But it turns out they can only hire me 1 day a week and my parents are forcing me to move out in 4 months, so thats not an option. I have very few choices with my intellectual disability and the salary I need requires a lot of mental demand or physical labor and I can't really give either and not burn out. I'm in school too, but can only afford most of an associate degree and there are few design jobs out there without a bachelors, Once we add my retardation to the mix, that pretty much sets me up for either never finding anything or having no choice but to take on too much and getting bullied and fired. I could save up for the User interface design program at career foundry, but that's WEBDesign basically and I 1. suck at technology and 2. UH HELLO! I'm RETARDED?! Those technology geeks are sporting iqs of at least 110. My mild retardation is 80 something maybe less. Meaning I could only do about 70 percent of that job at my full mental capacity. Who uses their full mental capacity ALL THE TIME?! Thats how you burn out. I have no good choices no matter what I do. Does that sound like divine intervention to you?! No. Unless that divine intervention is the middle finger in my face.
2. "God only gives us what we can handle" -If I could handle my circumstances, I wouldn't be on here looking for the methods thread. Unless you want to suggest this isn't from god, in which you would imply that god doesn't control reality. That statement would contradict the gods plan quote that Christians like to throw around. So Which is it?! Is god not able to help anyone (There's no point in praying) OR Does god pick a few people, give them a dream life and then fuck perfectly nice people like me over and dangle the privileged in front of my face for some cruel reason? Yeah, explain Jesus freaks. Explain.
3. "You hear god with your heart" My heart says this life hasn't been good for 18.5 out of the 23.5 years I've lived it and it will only get worse because of the abuse and termination that keeps happening at jobs. My parents are forcing me out, so I face possible homelessness and a lot of stress. I'm not talented, intelligent or qualified enough to succeed in graphic design or User Interface design. So I have no hope or faith. And if I did, it wouldn't change anything.
4. "Just have faith(and probably something about things turning out for the better because of god.etc) Bringing me the next point: Faith is giving yourself delusional hope that will result in disappointment later. There's a certain point when faith reaches its limits, and you have to start protecting yourself emotionally. Things don't get better for some people and believing something outlandish just because it's reassuring, isn't going to change that. So many very stupid people believe that it will though.
5. "All good things come from god" your life circumstances are "part of god's plan" Wow well since the only good thing I have is my friends and I acquired them by being a nice person and attracting another nice person and that person's friends, then that tells me god gave me nothing. And to think all this crap is what god wants for me: being retarded having pcos ( a metabolic condition that makes me physically uncomfortable, very fat regardless of what I do and makes my mood disorders worse) then god must really have it out for me. Oh and to top it off(I know you're all thinking that I'm either down on myself or lying about being retarded) NO ONE believes me when I say I'm retarded and they have these high expectations of me in jobs and stuff and I can't meet any of them. God must want to drive me away, so he doesn't have to spend eternity with me. Or God doesn't exist. I grew up with very religious parents who tried to brain wash me and I figured out the truth for what it was. This life is garbage and religion has damaged me so much. I wish my parents had been atheist's and just told me the truth. And the sad thing is, I feel like because of my upbringing, I need something to cling onto and reassure me, but there's nothing stable. The closest thing is ctb and if there was another life where everything is okay. But I know everyone who thinks there is believes in the god who either doesn't exist or exists and will send me to hell regardless. I want to just never have existed to begin with.