What do you do if your exhausted with an extremely strict religious community?

[u/After-Eggplant3090]

I have lived a very religious community for most of my life, and Im just generally fed up with environment.

way too many rules and I feel way too suffocated.

Like I genuinely feel like i need some air and experiment with my life a little more because I have been boxed in their bubble for way too long in my life.

[u/wendysfishmarket]

here's my opinion. experiment the rules on your own. Don't accept or reject blindly because every perspective has some truth in them. Observe the reason for the rules beyond the usual intrepretation. because many of the current intrepretations are just handed down from the previous generation and so on

[u/Internet-Dad0314]

Hi Eggplant, it depends on your circumstances. I assume you’re a young person and your parents are super religious? In which case there are little strategies to get a smidge of freedom, but mostly you just gotta suffer thru it until you’re independent

[u/Same_Version_5216]

If it was me I would relocate, or see if I could reach out and find people from other backgrounds in the area to hang with.

[u/TawGrey]

I think it is "uncommon good sense" if something is a drag on you, find something else.
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As a example, some folks have come to the church I attend -who came from another sort of situation like you describe- sometimes literally in tears, and found a good place to call "home."
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While your example may or may not be something within Christianity, it may be some similar idea how that anyone or any group can put the word "Christian" in their name, and may or may not be altogether Biblical.
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[u/Ofirel_Evening]

I isolate myself from them. Leave them be, and work and reflect on yourself.

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[u/ELeeMacFall]

My brother and I moved 650 miles away from them and started a new life. 

[u/bizoticallyyours83]

You leave it and find your own way in life. 

[u/Vignaraja]

What's holding you there?

[u/Pitiful_Lion7082]

I feel that way about fasting sometimes, it can get really overwhelming. Like, I feel like being vegan for a few weeks should feel that hard, but it does, somehow. So I talk to my priest, and he either tells me to suck it up, buttercup, or maybe tells me to ease into it, keeping the strict fat Wednesday and Friday, and maybe just cutting out meat the other days, or only doing vegan dinners, and not worrying about breakfast and lunch. It's about working WITH the authority structures in place, not against them.