Posted by linkadge on February 22, 2005, at 14:03:51
In reply to Re: Does anyone get psychotically enraged at god ?? » linkadge, posted by SLS on February 21, 2005, at 17:17:59
Well supposedly people who are hyper-religious have overactive temporal lobes. Which can perhaps lead to anger as well.
I don't really want answers as much as I do relief. A pastor can come up with all sorts of explainations for suffering, but really can't tell me why God doesn't answer my prayers.
The insist that god exists and can hear me, but are dumbfounded by my suffering. The last one tried to convince me that I had unconfessed sin in my life and this is why God did not help me.Goodness. You take a guilty soul and instead of saying three comforting little words "I don't know". They point the finger back at me.
The thing is that they don't have the answers. They think they do but they don't.
Another thing they do is point me to bible verses where others have suffered. Well in my mind God should've helped those people too. Just because god fails to help biblical characters does not mean its right.
Oh and goodness, another pastor tried to snap me out of my suicidiality by saying: "If you kill yourself, then you'll suffer in hell for eternity"Kind of ironic isn't it that the only thing that keeps me going through the day is the knowledge that I have the right to take my own life any time I choose.
Take away that, and I become completely imobalized. Thats the only straw I have left.
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