i am not religious but i believe in God
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When I have a voice who claims to be God I always challenge them. I don’t believe they are God.
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what drives me insane is when people are just like “just give up religion/your spirituality!” 
Like it is so easy to abandon your entire belief system. Also, spirituality is really important to some people. My spirituality really helps me cope and gives me a sense of purpose and makes me feel not as stressed and terrible about the state of the world and about death. Im not just going to throw that all in the garbage (not that I could if I wanted to) because I’ve had some delusions surrounding it.
I mean come on. That’s like saying to become an anarchist and go live off the grid if you have delusions about the government watching you. If it worked for you, great, but just realize its not the most realistic option.
For me what helped is realizing if it revolves around me, it is a delusion. If it does not revolve around me, it is a spiritual belief. For example, believing in God is a spiritual belief. Believing God has singled out me to talk to and has given me a special mission, revolves around me, and is therefore a delusion.
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You can believe in religion without believing in Hell or demons. That’s all I was trying to say.
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I wasn’t referring to you specifically but that is the same thing as getting rid of a large portion of a belief system. Its the equivalent of saying you can have religion without believing in God or angels. Ok but I do, so I can’t just change that. I can’t just stop believing in something. If you could do that, good for you but for me and many others it is challenging or impossible to just eliminate such beliefs.
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I decimated my belief system after all the crap I went through with religious delusions. It was hard but it was worth it.
I was still caught off guard though when the delusions changed to aliens or entities. So that took another few years to dismantle till I reached a point where any voices of any kind were just from me.
Then over time it faded out.
Changing beliefs is very tough
I have, but I have a past experience with rejecting religious claims.
I think you need to research how people become disillusioned with the claims of their specific religions.
I don’t want to argue that you should be an atheist, because there’s no reason to. This is simply a degree of insight on what claims your delusion is trying to make on the world. No need to investigate what your religion believes unless there are differences, in which case, you can say…my faith believes this, my delusion believes this other thing, therefore even if I believe it, my religion doesn’t and its my own personal experience.
Then you go from there to your own personal experience and try to gauge the facts of what happened, the state of your mind, the obvious flaws in your mind when you are being actively psychotic.
This is going to take a while, so work on it slowly.
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I will try to follow the guidelines, @John_Raven, I am a person of faith. When it comes to belief, I do not struggle in knowing that there is good. In being a person of faith, I place the good I attempt in the hands of the almighty, the most high, a higher power, what have you will.
I stray away from the thought of grandeur knowing that its good is not mine alone, it is all good that has been and can be done if we in existence will for it. In my life, during sobriety, I follow the ten commandments to the best of my ability in any situation possible during day to day life. The delusions of grandeur I have struggled with are that of being a prophet, of being messianic, yet even in those turbulent times, in my heart, I have felt that it has made me no greater than what is existence. As I continue to learn I know this good I have witnessed in seemingly insignificant acts of kindness whether through sincere word or evident truth, there is good and that for me, at times, is enough to carry on.
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I also don’t believe in hell. I believe that everyone is going to heaven. Thinking about hell just makes people miserable. That helped me be med compliant and stop the voices
I’m quite torn on the whole thing. My “historic” self is a convinced atheist, my allegedly psychotic self believes he cocreated the universe in unwilling collaboration with the devil. My delusion would be buttressed by philosophical reasoning rather than revelation. I suspect I’ll relapse as I taper off of my ap.
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