I grew up christian, now I'm a Discordian that worships Kratos for being one bad ass motherfucker and killing of his competition
Wubbie: The act of a woman pressing someone else's face to her breasts and jiggling; may be used for either pleasurable or intimidating (suffocating) effect. You owe me a new pair of pants.
I thought that was called motorboating.
I was raised as a JW, but we stopped going before I was 10. Then I went back to it in my early 20s and stayed for close to a decade. I left because the hypocrisy just really killed things for me. I thought they were sincere and earnest so that was a pretty nasty blow for me. After that, I looked at other things...I kinda practice this mixture of paganism and what my grandparents, a kind of southeastern pan-Indian mix of beliefs, taught me.
The world is full of poverty, and I doubt the majority of the world's poor are Hindus. I see some correlation between focusing on the afterlife, as many religions promote, and undue contentedness with unfair and miserable situations in this life. No religion has a monopoly on this, however.
It's all a version of apartheid. The haves try to justify to the have-nots why they should be content with their life, and cannot expect things to change. In the caste system you could improve your lot only upon rebirth, if you had been a dutiful [whatever] in your present life. In Christianity yes, your afterlife is not on this earth. Either way, attempts to improve the here-and-now are viewed as impious.erm, the problem with the caste system was that everyone was, practically speaking, believed to be living in a divinely ordained afterlife here on earth, and upward mobility or even the alleviation of the poor's living conditions was viewed as a religious violation*. It has more to do with a religiously motivated version of apartheid than with focusing on living a life worthy of Heaven or Valhalla at the expense of earthly activism.
It counts if you have switched denominations or if you have gone from a religious person to an atheist/agnostic (or vice versa).
What religion did you switch to?
What did you switch from?
And what was the reason for the change?
Yes. I left the religion I was raised in. It was hard to leave as it meant losing a lot of family and friends, (their choice). But it was not even in the realms of possibility for me to stay. It was never a good fit. I always had questions about the glaring inconsistencies I noticed in their teachings; one isn't supposed to have such thoughts let alone voice them aloud. Even though I lost lots of people I loved, I'm so much happier now. I have my own little family and much better friends. (Makes me think of the Book of Job, lol). Every day since I left is a gift. <3.