Religion Making Suicide Worse

[!WILL!]

I know that religion may be annoying to bring up but I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. Has religion made you more suicidal? Religious people are less likely to commit suicide but in my case I feel as if religion is one of the reasons I have been pushed towards suicide. More specifically, religion was used to justify a good portion of my mistreatment growing up. I still continue to pretend to be religious and am constantly forced to go to church even though it makes me more suicidal and brings back awful memories. I can't tell anyone that I'm not religious because A. I'd be completely ostracized by many of the people I know and B. I think pretending to be religious is one of the things that also hides the fact that I'm suicidal.

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

I understand you. I grew up as a gay Catholic. Very Catholic, actually. I even taught at a Catholic university and worked in churches for most of my adult life. I fully understand the statement of religion being used to justify your mistreatment.

I have recently lost religion and perhaps even lost God, if that's possible. It's strange, because so much of my life and identity was rooted in my religion. I don't quite know how to feel about it.

 

[hʚll]

religious people make me feel more suicidal because they always dismiss the suffering and the cruelties in this life... they make things worse because they refuse to acknowledge that a kind god would never let a world like this to exist.. they choose to be blind ..they make me feel more alone

 

[Omega290]

I've been a "Christian" on and off my whole life but I actually turned against god when I realized how messed up the world is. I think it is much better to be an atheist than to hate god. I do believe that if there is a loving god, then Christianity makes the most sense, to me at least. Christ's suffering would be the only thing that comes close to justifying our existence.

 

[logan]

I think religion can both help and harm you.
Depending on how strongly you believe and how you apply the faith in your life.
It can give you a lot of strength and confidence.
But it can also be very burdensome - as @hʚll described it well.

 

[Versailles]

The same thing happens with you, as a child I let myself be influenced by others because I constantly felt that I was wrong and that is how I let myself be influenced and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses.
My experience in that sect was 6 years, and it negatively affected my life, and even so because of the fact that I was bisexual and still am.
So, if you think about the fact that religion can repress you from being who you want to be or having a particular taste, from that perspective, religion can depress you, make you bad at yourself and even become suicidal.