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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...yet, I feel more empty inside than I ever did before. That is all.

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Well, doesn't that tell you something?  Sounds like a rather empty life all the way around.[/quote]

Not OP, but no, not necessarily. You can't say that just because something feels good it's good -- otherwise why not just be a hedonist and do the fun, easy thing for your whole life? Because sometimes doing the right thing for you is challenging or hard at first, and sometimes the things we must do make us question ourselves and the things that are painful teach us. So you can't just say something that makes you feel bad [i]is[/i] bad.

It's not a sign of an empty life to feel empty sometimes. I think it's a sign that OP is sensitive and aware of her inner feelings in a way many people who never question their faith (or their lack of faith) are not.[/quote]

I wouldn't describe religious beliefs as "feel goods." I think the OP is recognizing something -- God is real and, despite what the so-called enlightened world may be trying to tell him/ her, s/he knows something is amiss.[/quote]

Quite the opposite -- OP is saying she is recognizing that God is NOT real.  I know a lot of non-believers and some - not all- feel emptiness or anxiety at first, but I've never known anyone to feel that way down the line.  Eventually, once they're out of religion, they feel liberated and that they can fully enjoy the world they were lucky enough to be born into.

Some people seem to be "born" atheists -- even though they were raised with religion, it didn't "take" and as adults (or in some cases as children) they leave it behind. Others are not raised with religion and wonder what all the fuss is about.  Knowing that this one life is all we'll have seems natural to them.[/quote]

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