Not necessarily. Some people keep their spiritual beliefs for Sunday and go about the rest of the week secularily. Codes of behavior are drawn from Monday - Saturday more than Sunday. Anyone who shows up with a different code that doesn't comply can take a hike, even if they are wearing a cross.

Yes, i do feel religion stops people from living life to the fullest. People should able explore the world, there sexulity, etc. to the fullest of there being.

In the sense that people are murdered by religious zealots and robbed of their lives altogether, certainly.

In the less extreme sense that fundamentalist religious beliefs prohibit entire areas of scientific research and thought, simply because they conflict with dogma, then again, yes. I have read quotes from former scientists (now "creation scientists" if there is such a thing) who turned their backs on real science because they couldn't resolve the conflict between evidence and religious mythology.

And when religion tells you who you can or can't marry, what you can or can't eat, even what you can or can't wear...

Is there any question?

No it's a brain washed tool by Christianity

I live amongst some of the most religious peopel I have ever known who drink like fish are the 4th in the Country charts for Obesity and seem if my Gossip Mill is in any way correct to have very many relationships on the side as well as abuse.
Apparently being with one man for 25years without resorting to other abandonments is not even noteworthy if youre not Protestant or Catholic

If you ALLOW yourself to be pulled into the bullshit and be brainwashed to the point that you NEVER question or doubt or have no desire to learn or to even explore anything else, and i've seen MANY in the shit THIS deep, then.....DUH !!!!!!

100% yes.

I think bills rob people of living life to the fullest. Religion seems to help some folks feel safe. Once you step back and scrutinize it it is pretty hard to embrace it again. That can be very freeing. But those pesky bills...

This might be a controversial thing to say,but I believe the religious live for death anyway. Upon their deaths they will be rewarded with everlasting life. So I don't think they care how miserable their Earthly life is.

without a doubt. When I finally broke the final tie to religion, I was able to lok at my life and all life so much more clearly. I let go of so many needs and accepted what is,

YES

Absolutely. There are some things they are never going to experience. Their mindset won't allow it

In many cases yes, in a segregation way. Where my family grew up in South America, a person could not get a good job if they weren't a Christian. This included indentured servants who were working under contracts. To declare yourself as a different faith, or a non-believer is basically a contract to not getting good jobs, even if you had the education.

Marriage, dating, and being in certain guilds were obvious setbacks.

Growing up Southern Baptist, when I reached dating age, I was toldno holding hands until engaged,absoluteky no dancing, no kissing until wedding day, whoa we're just going to a movie. Oh yeah, the movie had to be G rated & approved by parents. Sure wasn't living to the fullest to me.

I think that “life” robs people from living to the fullest. Disease, poverty, natural disaster, incidentals, lack of access, loss of loved ones, aging and the toll it takes on the body... Life is rough for most of us. I think religion is an attempt to find relief (or at least a reason) for suffering. It’s devastating to humanity, but all it does is magnify problems that already exist in human nature.

for start, it prevents critical and rational thinking. For me the answer is yes

Oh yeah! Trying so hard to get into "the gates of heaven without a spot or wrinkle". Lol

Yes depending on the type of person they are yes as much as 100 percent

Hell yes!!!

Yes, it limits you in many ways.

From my own experience, when people lose the ability to have an open mind, it greatly hinders their life and the lives of those around them. If religion didn't exist, the same "rules" about being a good person would still exist. Otherwise, humanity would fail.

Of course it does, most religious folks or believers fell that if not in this life, it will be better in the next. It almost makes the here and now irrelevant which means it's not important. So hoiw could you live life to the fullest if you believe it to be simply a me and to an end. Or rather a beginning?...

Most religions promise an eternal hereafter. This, IMO, diminishes the value they place on the one and only life they really have. So that's a big yes from me.

It depemds largely on whether they see their religion provding "gloort" or "Ceiling: values. A p[erson who see his or her religion as providing floor values, see their religgion as provding a base from which to gor. Those who see their religion as providing ceiling values,see it as giving absolute limits -- the "thou shalt not" focus. Thsat view is stulifying.

YES