Psychological Wellbeing How does your secular mindset factor in?

[Synnical]

Psychological Wellbeing
How does your secular mindset factor in? Help a University researcher by taking this confidential survey:

http://www.atheists.org/

Near the top, on the right.

I really like the new design of the AA website.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. I got a lot happier when I abandoned being a xtian.

xtianity is bad for your mental health. You are assumed to be bad and sinful just because you are breathing. That is really bad. People don't need that, and they don't need all that primitive gory imagery about substitutionary atonement either. The whole thing is a death trip.

I will never take xtianity seriously again. Because it starts from original sin, which is a fiction, it is extremely harmful. It's like made up advertising, selling you something you don't need and never did need. You're OK the way you are.

I think the Abrahamic religions are very pernicious.

[Warpy]

3. Pernicious doesn't begin to describe them.

I knew at the age of 10 that any bunch who hated my half of the human race didn't have anything good going for them that wasn't stolen from others.

If I'm to be judged by the universe as a whole, it will have to be on who I am and what I've done, not by lip service I've paid to some group of droning old men trying to speak for a malevolent Santa Claus that exists only in their own heads. I doubt such a judgment exists except by that face in the mirror, my severest critic who doesn't believe any lies and doesn't respond to formulaic flattery.

Living a life without fear of the nonexistent has to be healthier than living one's life in fear of a judgment by a hostile god, under the mostly censorious gaze of one's fellows in the congregation.

[yellerpup]

2. Most of my relatives were enthusiastic practitioners of xtianity as well as

repressed wallowers in 'sin' with made up rules that are counterintuitive to humanity. I never was a believer, but I did get baptised when I was a young teen because my grandmother bribed me with my first pair of hi heeled shoes if I would. We both got what we wanted from that ceremony. The faith has never 'spoken' to me and I've met too many charlatan believers to be anything but cynical about the whole program. Took the survey. It will be interesting to see how happy other atheists are. Me, I'm good.

[Deep13]

4. Any anxiety is caused by fear of irrationality by others.

I'm much happier as a nonbeliever than I ever was as a Christian.

[enlightenment]

5. Very poor survey design.

Canned questions that look like they pulled them from the standard mood assessment.

I don't see how this can help the researcher make the connections they claim they are looking for . . . but best of luck to them.

[Q3JR4]

6. I agree. n/t.

Q3JR4.