If ignorance leads to spiritual bliss, does this explain the irrational exuberance of most Christians?

Question

to believe a man died for your sins is the pinnacle of ignorance , not to mention the blasphemy of insisting Jesus is God.

truth is the last thing the religion of christianity offers. However, the teachings of Jesus are filled with truth,wisdom and knowledge.

Answer 1

Ignorance doesn't lead to spiritual bliss....ignorance leads to searching to fill the emptiness inside you.

Answer 2

No, it doesn’t. Ignorance doesn’t lead to bliss (unless you mean the Buddhist ‘polished mirror’ thing, but that’s hardly ignorance).
Willful ignorance is the product of fear. Things happen that are out of our control, so to hold the fear of a universe that doesn’t run just for their benefit at bay, some people imagine a very small world with a very nasty god in charge. Then they can imagine that the good and bad things that happen in their restricted world all have an explanation.
This world view doesn’t lead to bliss or even to happiness, because the believers have to flatter and suck up to their god all the time so he doesn’t hurt them, or make bad things happen to them, or send them to a nasty, scary place for ever and ever.
Fear also causes christians to react very strongly when anyone points out the obvious fact that there is no evidence at all for their invisible friend and that their religion doesn’t make much sense. It accounts for a lot of the anger we see every day in America, and it also accounts for the fundamentalist rejection of science and of rational thought in general. If all evidence points against what a person needs to believe, that person will work very hard to discount the evidence.
The reason christians can seem so blissful is usually a case of group hysteria (such as writhing on the ground screaming in ‘tongues’) or of drugs (as in the case of the Moonies), or they are just plain faking it so that other people will believe too and they won’t feel so insecure about their belief.
I don't think this questioner was showing off by using big words. The words he used seem to me to be very appropriate to the question he asked. Maybe he just has a larger vocabulary than most of the outraged christians answering him.

Answer 3

Ignorance doesn't lead to spiritual bliss. True Christians have a reason for their exuberance. They are exuberant because they are thankful that Jesus Christ paid the price for their sins and as a result of that they can go to Christ's kindgom after they leave this earth if they have put their trust in Him. They are exuberant because they have a reason to live and something to hope for. They are not ignorant. Christians have found truth.

Answer 4

I'm christian, though I'm not ignorant, and I don't think I've ever been exuberant. If I win the lottery, I think I'll be pretty exuberant, but other than that, the kid hitting a homerun is about the closest I figure I'll be coming to exuberant.

Answer 5

I think that their exuberance comes from their being spiritually fulfilled. For them, Christianity works like Formula 409 cutting through grease stains. And that's fabulous.

It isn't really the case for a great deal of us, though. So we must find another path to being spiritually fulfilled.

Answer 6

The only thing ignorance leads to is a bad choices repeated over and over again

Answer 7

If one has accepted Jesus they are not ignoring Christ's salvation.
Sounds like some one else might be ignoring God's plan of salvation.

Answer 8

Nah because its actually harder to believe something that isn't alive within you. Jesus is alive in me and has shown me. Lol love is my motivation for my exuberance.

Answer 9

No.

Your nescience leads to fallacious superciliousness.

Yay.

I know big words too.

Jackass.

Answer 10

it is ok to believe in the teaching of jesus, and God and not be a Xtian.