[PrincessPlatinum]

Okay guys, time for asking the hard questions: How does your narcicissm influence your religious beliefs? (if you have any, that is.) I'm a Christian who believes in Jesus, and I also believe that when God said he made us in his image that it actually enhances my narcissistic beliefs and tendencies. After all, if God made us perfect, then why not celebrate that, right? What do you think? Comment below!

[Atypical_Disaster]

I'm an atheist.

I have no need to believe in any higher power anyway, I'm a Goddess!

I'm a LaVeyan Satanist -- basically an athiest who believes that they are their own god. So... Much in the same ballpark as Atypical! [Unsurprising. ]

[Atypical_Disaster]

Originally Posted by Shayatanica

I'm a LaVeyan Satanist -- basically an athiest who believes that they are their own god. So... Much in the same ballpark as Atypical! [Unsurprising. ]

Oh you and I are similar again? How shocking.

[shakespeare47]

Grew up as a fundamentalist Christian... parents are still YEC. I'm atheist ( Christian for 40 years), but I've been turned off by just how anti-religion and anti-religious atheists can be (my wife is a Christian, and I have a lot of Christian friends).... They also are prone to see the world through their (atheist) glasses and in some ways are just as bad as the religious they criticize so much. I'm sorry I got involved with the organized atheist movement.

I'm currently getting into philosophy.

[Jom Tones]

Ditch the dogma and aggressively promote self-aggrandizement. Mock, scorn and leave forlorn those who seek to usurp any part of your self-proclaimed superiority. How may I not be humbled?

If there was a tree here there would be a big heart carved In it with shay + atypical in the middle of it. You guys are so cute!!!!! My narcissism plays no role in my beliefs as being one of the very few chosen ones. I have been told by complete strangers a handful of times.

[kaisersennheiser]

Originally Posted by PrincessPlatinum

Okay guys, time for asking the hard questions: How does your narcicissm influence your religious beliefs? (if you have any, that is.) I'm a Christian who believes in Jesus, and I also believe that when God said he made us in his image that it actually enhances my narcissistic beliefs and tendencies. After all, if God made us perfect, then why not celebrate that, right? What do you think? Comment below!

That we are perfect is not any Christian doctrine that I'm aware of . . .

[anomaly_fleur]

When I was undergoing treatment for my drug use, I was constantly told to get a higher power. I don't want to worship anybody; in a way, I am my higher power (Although I know I'm not God or anything). I wouldn't want to surrender. I'm an atheist anyways.

But everybody is different.

[shakespeare47]

I tried a 12-step based program for many years. It just wasn't for me. It was so obviously just a confidence game. They told me it only works if you really believe it... so they encouraged me to just try really hard to believe, and told me if I could do that, it would work.

There is plenty of criticism of 12-step programs. They can't even be honest about success rates... they fudge the numbers to make it appear to be more successful than it really is.

“Peer reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between five and 10 percent,” writes Dodes. “About one of every 15 people who enter these programs is able to become and stay sober.”

And 12 step groups are religious organizations.

Additionally, there’s AA’s barefaced religious affiliations to consider. True, the 12 steps have been worded in such a way as to suggest a certain amount of leeway in which God (or “higher power”) one ultimately surrenders to; but AA is a self-identified Christian organization with a significant portion of its methodology rooted in prayer. As it says in AA’s founding literature, known as the Big Book, “To some people we need not, and probably should not, emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach. We might prejudice them. At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God.”

[Thedevilwearsasmile]

For my job I see all the horrors this world has to offer and I don't even flinch, I am a N, through and through, I have compassion but overall i tend to lack empathy, but I know how to emulate it perfectly to help other people. Because of my profession I have comp to the conclusion that there cannot be a god, if there is a god she is doing a terrible job and needs to step down to her post and let me take over! I can do a better job.