Has anyone else ever...?

Question

left a religeon and felt like blinders were taken off of you?

Answer 1

yes. i studied with the jehovah's witnesses. i guess i was always skeptical at least a little bit; and i had this nasty habit of preferring science over religion (always <3 evolution! then and now). lol

Answer 2

I had to take the blinders off first. I was scared to look at anything that criticized my former Christianity, and then I figured- If Christianity is right, the arguments people will make shouldn't even be able to touch it. If not, well...

Well, I'm what my profiile says I am. An agnostic atheist who's going to h**l...

And whose mind soars like a majestic, uh, buzzard. I still haven't gotten this whole "learn and think before you speak" business quite down yet.

Answer 3

Yes. I grew up in a Christian home and was a Christian most my life. I would often get into trouble for asking questions that no one would or could seem to answer. About five years ago I left the Christian faith to seek truth anywhere and everywhere I could find it. I studied most of the world's religions, past and present, to try and find what I believed to be correct. About a year ago I returned to the Christian religion. Now though, my faith is stronger because I have found the answers to most the questions I have ever asked. Also because I know my beliefs are based on research and not on hearsay.   +?+

Answer 4

I feel that religion is always too binding and freedom of expression is curbed so it is best to quit the religion and follow what your heart says is right! I did and found my own calling!

Answer 5

I took the blinders off long before i had the guts to leave the religion.  

Answer 6

God showed me the way. IF you are an athiest then you are blind. They are all willingly ignorant.

Answer 7

no ive never had a religion so i never had any blinders on :}

Answer 8

Yes.

It was amazing how much more flexible I could be in thinking about different ideas once I gave myself permission to have my own thoughts.  

Answer 9

religion is the cause of all hate in the world.

there are no gods, as far as science can tell.

Answer 10

i did...when i left my own ways behind and surrendered my life to Christ...

Answer 11

No

Answer 12

Yup.  I converted to Judaism from Christianity 12 years ago, and it's EASILY the best thing I ever did in terms of religion.

Answer 13

Yes, I had the same experience.

First of all I did not have any religious education, but as I grew up I started looking for my roots, found the religion I could connect to, but very shortly felt completely "tied up".

But what happens when the blinders come off?

Religion is described as "faith below reason", when we do not even look at what our 5 senses tell us, we blindly accept what our teachers, priests, rabbis, parents, etc tell us.

When we do not believe in religion, but only believe what we can actually sense in our senses, we are in "faith within reason", but if you look at the "modern/educated" world today, and usual sciences, we are slowly/or fast running out of ideas, and the more we interfere, the more chaos we are causing, although we base all of it on "hard fact science".

So what else is there?

Well if we still believe, that there is a Higher Intelligent Force, that created everything in the Universe, but we do not want to be tied up by religion, than fortunately there is a third option, which is called "faith above reason".

In this option, we are very much aware of what is happening to us in this physical world, we examine everything that we can sense, but we also accept, that at the moment we do not have the capabilities of sensing that Higher Force, but we also accept a method, that can practically teach us, how to acquire the missing devices to start sensing the Higher Force, and the actual "real reality".

If you are interested here is a short video explaining the difference between this method and religions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t20Q1WSx...

and the following website could give you the practical guidance:

www.kabbalah.info

All the best with your search!

Answer 14

No.  It's an illusion.  If you believe in a religion, you believe in it b/c it identifies with you on a personal level, the people of that religion gives you comfort, and you're able to solve your problems through the solutions of that religion.  

It's like being a new atheist.  You believe in evolution because it is logical to believe in it, despite the fact humans are far more complex and cannot be limited to logic and reason.  It's like when a disabled person detects someone is going to die who is close to them, but no one believes them until it happens.  Logically, you'd think "Oh, that person simply died due to these complications and that disabled person just looked at the symptoms."  However, sometimes we cannot explain the unexplainable.  We can't explain why a Leopard, whose main enemy is a baboon, ADOPTED a young motherless baboon.  My point is, we cannot simply abandon the possibility of the unexplainable, and to deny that there is something on the other side of death is asinine  

You drop a religion because you yourself have abandoned it.  You've stopped educating yourself on it.  The more you neglect something the more obsolete it becomes in your life.  It's like a language. You stop speaking Spanish for a few years, you get rusty and simply completely forget about it.   You can't REALLY say you've "dropped the blinds" because each religion has a philosophy that a person believes in.  It doesn't mean you've enlightened yourself in that the religion is wrong, but rather that you do not believe that religion's philosophy.  For example, Satanism practices complete selfishness and egoism, do you believe in serving yourself above ALL ELSE even if a person is suffering and in need of your help?  Probably not.  You probably DO care for others.  Each religion is right according to those who believe in it.

Hope that helps.

Answer 15

When I left the Catholic Church.

Answer 16

More like joined in on a faith and felt like really good glasses were put on. They cleared up everything. I believe you can get them from reading the Bible. Remember, you are not close minded. You have a free will. God gave it to you so thank Him.  

Answer 17

I did that when I left the Catholic church.