Poll Did Your Trauma Effect Your Religious Views?

[Ronin]

Spent a while thinking about this.

I'd say trauma made me more questing for justice, and whenever I remember /that/ is a part of what God's supposed to be, & that the religious laws are pretty common sense and in line with social order, more prosocial person.

Finding appropriate communities is still bit of a struggle, since I'm darned wary of extremists of all flavors & far more wary of believing bullshit I've lived by for decades, while needing to formulate thoughts in categorical terms enough to stay myself and uphold boundaries.

 

[deleted]

My trauma is what started me questioning the faith that I had been brought up with (Christianity). It is one of the few positive results of my trauma as it opened my eyes to science and reason and made me a passionate atheist. That said, I definitely respect those with religious beliefs as I personally know how important they can be to a person. Coexist and all that. :) My trauma turned me into a skeptic and made me question a lot of my values that I had back then.

 

[Hush92]

It effectively ruined my relationship with God. I'm doing my best to repair it but I don't know if it will ever be like what it used to be.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

After much thought on this topic, Veering more towards a belief in a Universal Divine Spirit now, but not anything like what is described in any religious books.

 

[Deleted member 34424]

I change/d my views a lot over the years and I've finally settled on Secular and Engaged Buddhism, which I love.

What I do remember is me on the school bus, a rainy day, crying, and thinking "I'll never worship or believe that a man in the sky has authority over me". This was almost right after my abuser being sent to prison and no way was I going to worship some man, and I never have again. All the other religions were pagan and it was centered on a mother goddess. Now it's Buddhism and since Buddha isn't a god and not to be worshipped and I've healed a lot since being a child, it doesn't bother me.

 

[asadafagahajakal]

I'm a christian, always have been. But when I was 15, I considered converting to islam. Similar origins, but I guess the Quran never convinced or convicted me. So I scrapped the idea of leaving my faith. But the church definitely has some bad apples so if you're a church goer, you'll know that some churches are just bad for you. That's the reason I thought of leaving my faith behind. That and I was in a phase of trying to understand why things happened, who's really out there, what's their nature and intentions, things like that. I still am trying to get an understanding of the whole picture.