Do you have to believe in yourself before you can believe in anything else?

Yes. Ultimately the only person you have to answer to and live with in life is yourself.

I agree. I’m not bashing religion or anything because I honestly don’t know if I believe or not. Some ways I do and some I don’t. So why do people think they have to believe in a higher power that may or may not exist before they can believe in themselves?

If I had to believe in myself first, I wouldn’t believe in anything at all. I always feel like I’m a poser. A fake. But I believe in others. I believe in things, too.

Just out of curiosity, is that a butt in the picture?

@AngelKisses just click on it and see…

Belief is a state of mind. People can hold no belief in themselves yet do extraordinary things when they believe in something or someone else. I have personally seen it and history has shown it.
Take a man that has lost everything that he has to alcohol and drugs. The despair and hopelessness that he feels is indescribable. The only hope that he has is the SSI check coming on the 15th so that he can relieve the consist want that he feels for a drink and a drag. Fast forward 5 years and the same guy that was contemplating death to relieve his persistent pain is now living in an apartment, holding a good job and helping out in his community. How did this happen? It wasn’t by believing in himself, because he tried that every morning, but by noon he had failed. He had to put his faith in something far more powerful then himself to relieve his failures. This is a story that I hear often from people that were once looked down upon and sneared at as just another drunk. But now they are looked up too and revered as another extraordinary story of hope, inspiration and the power that belief in a higher power can do.
I’m not saying that you have to believe in a higher power to accomplish things, heck their are plenty of atheists and agnostics that practice in self worship and function quite well, but to insinuate that a person that puts their faith and trust in a higher power is weak minded or pathetic is wrong. Not to say that you feel that way, I’m just speaking about how society perceives it in general.