SP 290: Breaking Free from Religious Guilt and Obligation
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
If you grew up in a strict religious home, you were most likely taught about heaven, hell, and a very long list of what makes us a good person or a bad person.
As humans we are bound to make mistakes, sometimes we do, say or feel things that we are not proud of. When you are brought up in a authoritarian religion or faith community and/or your parents or religious leaders are the type to manipulate and control through religion, your spirit will be crushed, you will not be able to forgive your mistakes, every "bad" thought you have or every single thing that you do or say that could be considered "immoral" will hunt you and be a cause for shame, low self-esteem, feelings of being underserving, and the list goes on.
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| 0:00.0 | Getting sober is one thing. Staying sober is another. In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery is community and connection. Share is not only a recovery podcast it it is a global sobriety network. Join me each week as we connect |
| 0:25.5 | with people from all over the world who will share with you their inspirational journey |
| 0:30.6 | of recovery. Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network. |
| 0:42.1 | Thank you. Share Podcast Recovery Network. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Share Podcast, and today we talk about |
| 0:48.4 | battling and overcoming religious guilt. |
| 0:52.1 | On today's episode, one of my closest and dearest friends, Ellie Nash, |
| 0:56.1 | invited me to have a discussion that I am very open about, and so is he, because we know |
| 1:04.0 | that there are so many people out there that couldn't even imagine publicly discussing |
| 1:10.4 | the guilt, fear, obligation, resentments, |
| 1:15.6 | bitterness around their own belief systems when it comes to religion. |
| 1:20.6 | What happens to so many of us is that we are born into a culture, into a belief system, into a dogma. |
| 1:29.9 | And it takes us many, many years to realize that we do have a choice. |
| 1:36.6 | A lot of times I use the example of if you were born in a religious family, |
| 1:43.4 | Muslim, Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Christian, it doesn't matter. |
| 1:48.4 | If you were born into a religious, a strongly religious, dogmatic family, where everyone there feels obligated to continue with the traditions and stay within the community and the confines |
| 2:04.4 | of this religion. |
| 2:05.9 | And this little tiny baby is kidnapped by a different culture, religion, and race. |
| 2:15.1 | What is it that they would believe at the age of 18, 19, 20 years old? |
| 2:20.1 | They're going to believe whatever they were taught. |
| 2:22.3 | And then introducing them back into the religious dogma, |
| 2:27.4 | would they be as susceptible to the guilt and fear and obligation that their brothers and sisters feel. |
| 2:37.4 | Sit there for a moment and honestly answer that question for yourself. |
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