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.

 

[redsendtend]

I am. I believed in God, left my family and my house all that. Albeit, my family were pretty abusive in relation to the parents around me, i couldve survived it. I left my home for God, gave up everything. The reason i believed in God in the first place was because of certain events, now I look back I think that I only was "blessed" or it was a "miracle" because of my social standing: people of lower social standing were insecure and so submitted to me and so a lot of good things happened to me which I thought that was "luck" or "miracles" but it was actually just my privilige. This revelation wouldn't be so hurtful if I didn't build my whole belief and life on God, for Jesus said "whoever gives up their life will find it" and (something along the lines of) "a wise man builds his house on sure foundation". Now I've been "demoted in society" if you will, everything has changed and lo and behold God is not there so... Yeah. There's a lot more other things... i cant put it all into one post but this all is very sad to me. I loved "God" more than anything, but through reflections and things like that, I realised that it wasn't God, it was just society's clogs working and I was too privallegedly ignorant to see it. Makes sense tbh, a lot of times in history we usually slap a label on anything wonderfully mysterious as "of God". I do feel a bit scared for posting this reply because Jesus says that "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is an unforgivable sin", but the Bible also says that God desires truth, so God, if you are real, this is how I feel. I think this text/comment was a prayer, cry for help and self-analysis all in one go. Oh well. To whoever reads this, i hope I did not discourage your faith but this is just my feelings and I wrote it to vent, not to unconvert. If Christianity works for you great, if it didn't, then also great.

I'm 18, female, and I'm pretty much a femcel by definition I guess. Sort of became a femcel for God, but now everything's gone, my childhood room has gone and everything. My message to the world is be grateful with what you have, and don't take a good community for granted and respect your privilleges handed to you from birth.

 

[the_calynite]

Was Mormon, now I'm just culturally so. I go for friends and community mainly. I really enjoy being free

 

[Seneca65AD]

Spiritual but I am not a fan of organized religion. Did the altar boy thing growing up (no, nothing weird happened). However did have a situation when I was 15 and hospitalized for a serious accident which required surgery. A priest visited me and inquired about my propensity for "self-gratification". I thought "what the hell are you talking about??? I'm a 15 year old boy - the priest was lucky I wasn't taking care of business right then and there.....but I did say -nope, that's a sin against God...

So, not a fan of any religion.......

 

[refractiongirl]

voted culturally religious, but honestly totally unsure of my answer... i was raised a muslim, and for a few years have not considered myself one and seen the religion as entirely fictitious, although i still practice it due to apostasy being heavily looked down upon. i tell myself that if i had the freedom to practice whatever i wanted then i would still want to do things like fast ramadan, use prayers/dua's in daily life and eat halal exclusively just because it's what makes me much more comfortable, but i'm an impulsive person who has 0 willpower (mostly a result of depression) so i honestly am unsure if i would still practice culturally.



i still do get paranoid over islam's forbidding of suicide, though. i do believe that regardless of if i CTB i would go to hell, not just for being a kafir but for other reasons too. but despite that i do sometimes have a little voice in the back of my head that discourages me from attempting suicide due to that fear of hell, despite my rational side believing that there isn't even a risk of me going to hell at all. it's very annoying since i can't really find a way to get rid of it, and i get anxious that when i attempt that fear might end up stopping me.



pointless ramble, but wanted to get my feelings on religion and its relation to my suicidality for me out somewhere since i've never properly gotten to before due to danger, i guess

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

Occasionally, because I've lost my fucking mind. I've struggled with Catholicism for 15 years now--the strong stuff! But at the end of the day these elaborate supernatural systems are not supported by evidence. Religions work entirely through things that would look the same if they were just placebos. What a way for God to interact with us! I think the omnipotent and omnibenevolent would just...be there. No one would have to wonder about him or hear about him from missionaries. He would just be around, doing stuff.

 

[Tesha]

Voted agnostic. I have enough hassle trying to manage myself without the added complication of patriarchal religious beliefs...

 

[rotten_hrtz]

I am a Jehovah's Witness and still am; I like being one and have never thought of leaving, but I do feel like I am a burden even to God, so that's why I plan to end it all, I don't want to be a bother to others

 

[socksnsandles]

i believe there is a god but that he shouldnt be worshipped. hes as much of a piece of shit as he is good.

 

[AnonymousCupcake]

Well.. I grew up Christian, started doubting His existence when I was a teen, and then had 2 significant experiences that proved to me that He exists. One of them was back in 2024 where I was in a young adults Bible study that my mom and step-dad started and my nephew KNEW that someone had anxiety without her even telling him. It was crazy.

I keep going back and forth between wanting to die and not wanting to die. I just can't make up my mind on ANYTHING. I haven't really had any thoughts of wanting to die lately, though, but that may change. I'm pretty sure that Christianity is against suicide and that it's a sin, and it really sucks knowing that.

 

[nitrogenous]

I'm still figuring it out. I grew out heavily spiritual in a Christian household, but education wise, I did my high school in a Catholic school, so while going to a charismatic church on Sundays, I used to participate in catholic masses on the weekdays (mandatory by my school). After graduating high school and moving away from my parents, I stopped going to church but was still actively listening to Christian music and occasionally pray. However, a year ago, when my mental health severely deteriorated, I got approached by my coworker who told me about her Christian belief and gave me hope that life can get better. I believed her, even going to her place straight after getting discharged from hospital to do bible study, only to realise it was a cult. I got scammed to pay for this bible study group, forced to talk in tongues and was eventually going to be forced to go to the US where their headquarter is located at to study even more. This realisation hit really deeply as I was scared that I wouldn't be able to escape the cult.

So, I did the stupid thing where my friend asked me to go to her friend's church, but she herself didn't even end up going. I went to the church, immediately got baptised (I know…) and got stuck in this church with weekly connect groups as well. I tried escaping using hospitalisation as a reason, but they're still trying to persuade me to go back every now and then. The only reason I stopped going was because I wasn't sure if this one is another cult or not (some people say it is) and the fact that they didn't care about my health conditions at all and were just being insensitive.

So now, I really don't think about religion much anymore. I'm already struggling to survive day by day, so having all these issues back would just make me feel worse off.

 

[EternalShore]

Yes, it's more interesting to me than not being religious~ I'd say that Christianity doesn't really affect my sewer slidal thoughts too much, altho I've been glad to see it help others with theirs~ :) I'd really rather not sin even more tho, but if things truly do become unbareable~