Troublesome Obsession

[Sojourner7]

Hello,

I was wondering people's thoughts on this matter.

In the past, I've hunted duck and goose and such, and I enjoy going, but over the past few weeks I have been feeling extremely anxious about hunting. I feel the obsession is telling me it's wrong to kill animals, and I begin to have anxiety attacks about it, because I want to go, but I feel like this obsession will keep me from going, or if I do go I'll be extremely tormented in doing so.

I know there are no Biblical commandments against hunting, and I eat everything I shoot. My sound reasoning says it's not wrong, but this obsession is torturing me with how it's wrong to take the life of an animal.

What should I do? Do I go and bear the tormenting anxiety, which is hard to reason with?

OCD is truly strange...

 

[kicker]

Hey sojourner, my dad and brother have hunted for years. I never found joy in it because I was an athletics lover. God gave mankind the right to eat meat after the flood and then told peter that every animal was clean. Hunting is fine for anybody especially since you eat what you kill. I have battled something similar with watching football (big steelers fan). Don't let ocd steal your love of hunting. God gave us things like that to enjoy. The only problem I have is with those who kill animals just to see them suffer or to get a trophy and not eat the meat. Hope this helps some.

James

 

[seajoy]

Hello,

I was wondering people's thoughts on this matter.

In the past, I've hunted duck and goose and such, and I enjoy going, but over the past few weeks I have been feeling extremely anxious about hunting. I feel the obsession is telling me it's wrong to kill animals, and I begin to have anxiety attacks about it, because I want to go, but I feel like this obsession will keep me from going, or if I do go I'll be extremely tormented in doing so.

I know there are no Biblical commandments against hunting, and I eat everything I shoot. My sound reasoning says it's not wrong, but this obsession is torturing me with how it's wrong to take the life of an animal.

What should I do? Do I go and bear the tormenting anxiety, which is hard to reason with?

OCD is truly strange...

Go hunting! By doing so, you will kick one of your obsessions in the rear.