About Religion and Relationship…

<this is an entry that I recently posted on a forum discussing the question : religion= happiness? I thought I would share it here also>

I have to say that religion in general is very frustrating and confusing!

all those rules! and exceptions!.. and they are always changing!

to give perspective in Antioch people that acted like Jesus “Christ” were called Christians…. Now… Christians do not act like Jesus “Christ” They most often act like the Pharisees and the Sadducees did. Ironically Jesus really gave those guys a hard time…

My experience… I was hopelessly addicted to pornography… It nearly destroyed my life in several ways… I was addicted to the point of seriously destructive behavior… I went 19 years struggling with this… I joined peer groups, accountability programs, bought software, confessed to others… everything that “Religion” teaches you to do. Finally I gave up trying to quit, I came to grips with the fact that I could not do it and being thoroughly convinced of that fact begged “GOD” to free me from the addiction. Today I have been addiction free for 3 years and have no compulsion whatsoever.. my marriage is improved, My mind is pure, and my heart is peacefull… because of unexplainable incidents such as this… the entire remainder of my existence is devoted to finding out more about the “Being” that can change things so drastically in an instant. I call Him “God”.. and I believe in Jesus because I identify with his nature that is described in history. Everything that he taught resonates within me and speaks of freedom, freedom from hate, dispair, anger, futility, sarcasm, cynicism, and all of the things that I want to be free from… and one by one they disappear as I learn more and more about this “Jesus”

Seek truth my friends… not to disprove it, but for the sake of knowing it… and you will find freedom.