Has going to church, being religious or spiritual actually made things more complicated for you?

not really, it can make things less complicated if youre getting help from the people at church

Hi Zack,

No, when I was thirteen I simply became atheist!
That lasted for thirty years...then mid-forties found my way back into religion but I do it my own way...I love all religions now, and very much appreciate the great atheist thinkers too.

Pretty simple for me, I aspire to the way of love as the basic law of life, which (as I see it) is the foundation of all religion too and atheism also.

No, I'm not practicing neither of these things.

Religions only separated me
from the Absolute Truth...
     Stepping onto the Spiritual path
has literally opened the doors 
to a deeper understanding of life,
and to a direct experience
of that Truth within.

glad i left the Seventh-day Adventist church, it didn't make sense how they would rag down the rest of christianity (calling them the antichrist and great whore of babylon- for believing in false doctrines and traditions. but they themselves, believe in the Trinity, good friday/sunday resurrection, celebrates christmas and easter etc.. i left that church after questioning these things (once a church accepts a man made doctrine as authoritative. it too becomes a fallen church- they're putting their own doctrines and traditions of above the bible, and the bible itself talks about this big time- a church cannot remain pure and spotless before "God" if it lets "traditions of the world" inside of it (thru its doctrines, traditions, and behaviour etc.)- the 3 angels message in Revelations warns people to come out from among them so they don't end up being a partaker of their faulty ways)

- i found another denomination that was more inline with what i bought the bible really taught on various matters- stayed there for a good several months before i started questioning the bible itself and became an agnostic.. the more i dug in the bible- the more it didn't make sense, i saw the inconsistency and even some contradictions.

This post was edited by Skunky Stinkerson at March 10, 2017 4:54 AM MST

No, not at all. I don't go to any church and am not a Christian but I respect others beliefs. So, no complications there.

It did at one time, but I got away from all religions and my life is much more less complicated now.
I am still spiritual minded without all the restrictions that religion puts on you.

I was atheist until age 30 and then I met some people who were teaching how to study the bible instead of just preaching things they had heard from other people. That was called The Way, and it was a remarkably sensible ministry. But as usual, some people had to go one better than God. They turned the leadership school into a sort of boot camp for God's army. Of course that didn't make sense any more, so when the main man died, the new leaders went crazy and all the followers quit following. The Way was based on independent home fellowships, so now there are thousands of little churches in people's homes, still teaching bible studies, but no central coordination and no public presence that anybody could attack.