- Username
- invaderzim
- Date posted
- 50w ago
Religious OCD? Religious trauma?
I have been atheist for about a little over a year now, i was raised catholic for the first couple years of my life and then then both my parents decided to become christians and my father took my siblings and I to a church that my uncle was the pastor of and i endured some religious trauma as the church exhibited many cult like behaviors; claiming to make a woman’s leg grow on stage and the whole congregation going along with it, another instance when many adults from the congregation (my father included) gathered around the front of the stage and began speaking in tongues and crying and laying on the floor, etc. We were going to this church multiple times a day usually 2-3 my uncle would tell us “god never took a day off so neither can we” and i remember my father telling one of my brothers about spontaneous combustion and i was so afraid that would happen to me. So fast forward to present day i don’t go to church and haven’t been in 4-5 years and completely abandoned religion a year ago but i still feel like god is listening to my thoughts and i will go to hell for my intrusive thoughts when i was younger i used to compulsively pray i don’t pray at all anymore but i still feel like he can hear my thoughts or deceased relatives can hear my thoughts and maybe they think something is deeply disturbed with me??? I don’t believe in a god anymore why does this still happen am I delusional??? I wish i didn’t feel like someone was listening to my thoughts you know?