{"id":71729,"date":"2022-07-06T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=71729"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:22:30","slug":"questions-about-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/questions-about-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions About Religion Every Woman Should Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How does society impact religious beliefs? What beliefs have you inherited from your culture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker, author,<em> <\/em>and activist Glennon Doyle deconstructed her ideas about religion after a negative experience at a conservative church. Doyle decided that she no longer wanted to be part of a faith tradition that forced her to check her critical thinking and intuition at the door or defer to the judgment of powerful men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to find out why asking questions about religion to challenge old beliefs can help you live a more meaningful life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-deconstructing-institutions-and-belief-systems\"><strong>Deconstructing Institutions and Belief Systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to deconstructing her ideas about marriage, parenthood, and family structure, <strong>Doyle also began asking questions about religion.<\/strong> She realized that she had been participating in cultural practices and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-belief-system\/\">belief systems<\/a> that did not reflect what she believed true about herself and the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-questions-about-religion-trust-your-instincts\"><strong>Questions About Religion<\/strong>: Trust Your Instincts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Doyle was a young mom in the early 2000s, she became involved in her local church\u2014only to find that the church was primarily focused on opposing homosexuality and abortion. When she questioned the pastor about his approach, he told her to trust the church\u2019s teachings. After this experience, Doyle joined another church that didn\u2019t force her to check her critical thinking and intuition at the door or defer to the judgment of powerful men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After meeting her partner Abby, Doyle reflected on her experience with her first church as she continued to ask questions about religion. The experience had given her a first-hand perspective of how religion can negatively impact women\u2019s lives\u2014she realized how important it is to deconstruct the views handed down by authority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The Challenge of Leaving Your Congregation<\/strong><br><br>During her early church experience, Doyle saw how her viewpoints were easily ignored and disregarded by powerful men. Many women have spoken out against injustice in their congregations after having similar experiences.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Two notable women who have written extensively about questioning religion are authors Sarah Bessey (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Out-of-Sorts\/Sarah-Bessey\/9781476717586\"><em>Out of Sorts<\/em><\/a>) and Rachel Held Evans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cokesbury.com\/Searching-for-Sunday\"><em>Searching for Sunday<\/em>)<\/a>. They point out how patriarchal power structures within the church discourage open dialogue and debate and promote conservative political ideologies.&nbsp;<br><br>Like Doyle, Bessey and Evans both experienced leaving their congregations, deconstructing their beliefs, and finding new faith communities. Their work expands on Doyle\u2019s ideas by exploring the difficulty of leaving a faith community and the bravery required to deconstruct your faith\u2014especially as doing so requires letting go of a central support system for many women. The sense of isolation and alienation that comes with leaving your congregation and faith can be challenging, and you may feel that community support is necessary for your journey. If you need support, Bessey and Evans founded <a href=\"https:\/\/evolvingfaith.com\/\">an online community for people actively deconstructing their faith that can help you during this difficult transition.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-doyle-s-new-beliefs-about-religion\">Doyle\u2019s New Beliefs About Religion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Doyle believes that following Jesus\u2019s teachings should not involve taking a hardline stance on political issues. (Shortform note: This stance mirrors the views of many people who asked questions about religion, eventually leaving their congregations due to <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/08\/06\/young-evangelicals-are-leaving-church-resistance-to-lgbtq-equality-is-driving-them-away\/\">their church\u2019s views on homosexuality<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doyle rejects the idea that the church is a necessary intermediary between individual believers and the divine. <\/strong>Instead, she believes that she has personal access to God and doesn\u2019t require an intermediary or interpreter. As a result, she no longer views organized religion as necessary for loving God or each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Doyle\u2019s conclusions align with recent studies that asked questions about religion and found <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/260738\/why-americans-losing-confidence-organized-religion.aspx\">an increasing lack of confidence in organized religion<\/a>. Many people no longer see organized religion as a necessary part of their faith journey and instead have <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/publishous\/why-personal-spirituality-is-healthier-for-you-than-organized-religion-731a3bab011\">developed a more personal approach to spirituality.<\/a> Doyle has also chosen this path and is currently not affiliated with any religious organization, and instead explores her spirituality by practicing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/eckhart-tolle-meditation-mindfulness\/\">meditation<\/a> (as discussed in the previous section).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Questions About Religion to Ask Yourself<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Doyle achieved freedom from her captivity by systematically deconstructing her beliefs and assumptions. In this exercise, you will reflect upon the beliefs you\u2019ve adopted and how they\u2019ve changed over time\u2014and you\u2019ll identify which beliefs may need deconstructing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What were you taught to believe about religion?&nbsp;<\/li><li>How have these beliefs changed over time? What caused this change?<\/li><li>What beliefs do you have today that need to be deconstructed or reexamined?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does society impact religious beliefs? What beliefs have you inherited from your culture? Speaker, author, and activist Glennon Doyle deconstructed her ideas about religion after a negative experience at a conservative church. Doyle decided that she no longer wanted to be part of a faith tradition that forced her to check her critical thinking and intuition at the door or defer to the judgment of powerful men.&nbsp; Keep reading to find out why asking questions about religion to challenge old beliefs can help you live a more meaningful life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":71751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,24,6],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-71729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-improvement","category-society","category-spiritual","tag-untamed","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Questions About Religion Every Woman Should Ask - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How has society impacted your beliefs? 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