Is it normal that i feel uncomfortable when people “have a relationship with god”?

I’m not uncomfortable with religion as a whole... I’d say I’m agnostic, with a slight belief that a higher power exists? And I’m also comfortable defining that higher power as God... but I was recently watching a bunch of videos talking about having a relationship with God and how it helped them... and while that is great, the entire time I was just... Uncomfortable? I don’t know if it was because I thought that what they’re doing (Praying/Going to Temple or Church) doesn’t actually do anything? (Which I feel like isn’t it because I think it does help, like placebo)... or maybe it was their enthusiasm... I don’t know... I think religion can be a beautiful thing when it’s not causing wars and saying any human could be lesser than another...

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  • jack_shephard

    Everyone have different subjective opinions,respect that.
    ps. i hate that too.

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  • Boojum

    Ever since I was five years old, I've had a close personal relationship with my special friend Werner. (It really annoys him if I pronounce his name in the English-speaking way, and he starts shouting, "It's Verner, you cretin! VERNER!" but it's really funny how he twitches his tail and his whiskers quiver.)

    Werner is always with me, giving me advice and telling me that I should and shouldn't do certain things. Sometimes that causes problems, but I know Werner loves me very much because he told me so.

    The other thing that really pisses Werner off is when my family and doctors tell me that he doesn't really exist. I always do my best to convince them that Werner is standing right next to them and he wants to love them too, and they'd know that if only they'd just let him into their heart, but hardly anyone listens. I think my grandma was almost convinced one day a couple of years before she went off to a home, but she was preoccupied with trying to drink some chicken noodle soup through a straw at the time.

    Werner keeps telling me that I should smite the unbelievers and this will make them see that he's real, but I want to just keep telling people that he loves them. It's hard, though, because I know for a fact that Werner is absolutely real, but it seems like nobody else wants to see the truth.

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    • RoseIsabella

      Is this your imaginary friend?

      https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1524/1342/products/colonel_klink_2.jpg?v=1505440156

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    • LornaMae

      Hahahaha! Great satire!

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  • McBean

    Sometimes, people have laughably crazy ideas to get the placebo effect working in their favor. As an Agnostic, I enjoy laughing at our sick sad world. Watching losers autodarwinate themselves reassures me that bad genes are continually removed from the gene pool.

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  • RoseIsabella

    That's your opinion, you're free to have your own opinion.

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  • TheBlindInquisitor

    which god?

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