We tell children fairy stories about Santa and the Easter Bunny, but we allow them to learn the truth when they grow up. Everything I have found out in my life tells me that God/Gods are just such fairy stories.
Why you so many "Educated" people still cling to them? Is it the fear of not being "Special" or the fear of death being the end? What's wrong with being just a clever Monkey?
The Bible, for one example was written by people who didn't know why the sun just hung there in the sky like it does. Why do so many people take their word about the way the Universe works with its invisible god and an afterlife you have to take their word for?
I believe in the ideas expressed by Jesus Christ (or who ever came up with them), Loving one another, working together. They make sense, but I can’t see anything supernatural in that.
Why is so much of the Human race so reluctant to grow up and face reality?
2006-07-04 23:50:34 · 26 answers · asked by Penta Jaye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because humans are simple minded creatures who have brains that are much too large for the requirements of survival.
So it busies itself with fantasies and delusions while it is idling, waiting to be put to use.
2006-07-04 23:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Left the building 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It isnt' a matter of growing up, it's a matter of looking around you and seeing all of nature and how it interacts with itself, including us. If you can see the sun, moon, stars.......trees, plants, little wild animals and all that makes up our world, I'd wonder how you could NOT believe in a creator. We call that creator God because it's easy to say. You can call God whatever you like.
Do you believe we came here in a mindless cypher and are going nowhere? What a futile and depressing idea! It also makes no sense at all.
How do our bodies function so perfectly? How do animals come to be born in just the areas they need for food and camoflauge? How do herbs and plants appear that will cure diseases and prolong life......there is so much that fits into place that I wonder how anyone could not see there is a divine creator.
It's a matter of being aware.
It's not necessary to have an organized religion if it turns you off. It serves many people as a way to be disciplined and a part of the community..........It also gives many people hope and strength.
The Bible was not just tossed together by a bunch of idiots. It's been studied over all these years by Theologians, at great length and determined to be valid.
How is it that you feel every one around you is stupid and you are the only one with a real clue/real knowledge about life??
That must make you feel very superior - almost godlike huh?
We all face reality eventually. You're welcome to your ideas of what reality is. That doesn't make you right or wrong. Neither do the ideas of others make them right or wrong.
2006-07-05 07:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by purplewings123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question, if a total answer even exists, is as complex as the people who choose to have faith or don't. Some of the most eminent minds of the 20th century were men and women of faith, beleivers in God. What you have to understand is that to many, the very existance of the Universe itself is proof of grand design. Your dismissal of this as a proof does not make it any less real to those who beleive.
It is said that the only one who can be a true Atheist is God. This may sound ridiculous, but here is why: To prove that God does not exist, you must prove he (metaforical term, not implicit of gender or anthopomorphic intent) does not exist anywhere. In order to do that, you must know all there is to all about everywhere that he might exist. To say you know he does not exist in 90% of the universe means he may exist in the 10% you don't know about. Since knowing all is omniscience, and ominiscience is a quality of Godhood, it follows that only God can be an Atheist.
This in no way proves that God or a God does exist however. What it does do is leave room for the possibility, without then calling the intelligence or sanity of the person of faith into question. Reasonable people can disagree on this subject without either side being so strict and absolute as to dismiss the opposite paradigm as patently false. Please allow yourself the freedom to understand that belief and faith are not the same as ignorance and stupidity.
2006-07-05 07:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings friend-
I believe I understand your question well enough to respond.
It is certainly true that many people cling to religion and never give it a second thought, they accept it blindly and without reason. I think you are taking issue more with these people than with Theists in general.
However, there are a great number of educated people who believe for any number of reasons, but usually do so only after performing a great deal of research. The state of agreement between one person's beliefs and another does not alone make it fact or fiction. There are probably a lot of legitimate reasons why people think the way they do.
I was an Atheist for many years before becoming a Baha'i, so I understand where your logical aspect of thinking is coming from, but I don't believe it is the answer to everything. There is a lot that science has yet to discover.
You are certainly entitled to your own opinion, and I greatly encourage you to speak your mind and formulate your own beliefs. If you are respectful and sincere in expressing your views to others, most of them should respond in kind. I hope this answers your question!
Best wishes.
2006-07-05 07:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by K M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For one, I dont consider myself as coming from the apes. That theory has not yet been clearly proven by educated people. Number two, the more you immerse yourself into practical knowledge (i.e things that can be seen with logic and careful explanation) the more you will know that some things are really left unexplained. Eventually, you will come to the conclusion that you cannot be the wisest of the wisest simply because, you too, are also created by the wisest of us all. And that, my friend, will be your initiation to the spiritual realm. That there exists something higher than our thinking, higher than anything around us. Smart enough to think that everything, even the dust particles, has to be created for a purpose that even we, humans could still not comprehend. I believe in God and His greatness...we are not the creator, but the created...
2006-07-05 06:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by Joy RP 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all I am not sure there isnt a God so I will not judge people who believe. The problem isnt whether God exists or not, but rather how organised religion has perverted beliefs into a cause to justify a groups actions. This is what has been adopted as a tool to further a political groups gains. IE God has said all infidels must burn or die etc etc ad nauseum
2006-07-05 06:57:44 · answer #6 · answered by karnovale 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you care so much about what somebody else believes anyway? People can believe anything they want to and you have no reason or right to tell them they can't or shouldn't.
I personally do not believe in god, but on the other hand, I also do not believe that 95% OF THE POPULATION OF THIS PLANET suffers from some sort of mass delusion either.
Nobody is going to talk you into believing anything so don't try to talk people out of believing what they want.
2006-07-05 07:15:41 · answer #7 · answered by jc1129_us 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we could turn the question around and ask why are people so ignorant they don't beleive in God?
It's called faith. Have u tried God? have u repented of your sins and asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior? Have u read the word? have u really prayed? If u haven't then u don't even have a basis for what u r saying.
am a Chrisitian and have been for several years. I know God is real I know what he's done in our lives.
I've been on both sides there was a time when I hated and cursed God cause of circumstances in my life but when I really met Him and started a relationship with Him I found out He not only is real He loves us so much. God is everything to me.
2006-07-05 07:21:32 · answer #8 · answered by sshhorty2 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Its more of a hope that there is more than just rotting in the ground after you die.
And as for religions, they could have it wrong. I mean, the people who actually "talked" to God didn't exactly start the religions in the modern sense. We don't go to the First Church of Moses or anything.
But it gives people hope, and that hope fills people with happiness. I don't understand how one can live a life thinking that you die and you just disappear.
It isn't ignorant to hold onto that hope. It is ignorant however to trash others for having hope.
2006-07-05 06:56:17 · answer #9 · answered by Spilk 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, congradulations!!
You may be one of the "shards" that are "cast off", because you "dont believe" in JESUS CHRIST as your Saviour!
When you are burning in Hell, please remember this, (though you will be in such agony, that I doubt that you will be remembering ANYTHING, but just suffering...So, sorry, I will tell you now, that I feel sorry for you, and that you still have "time" to ask for forgiveness and repent...
Its not a "pretty thing", when you are "wrong" about the after-life.
Remember, JESUS was "Crucified, Burried, and Resurected", and taken up into Heaven. No one else, has ever done that!
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-07-05 07:01:16 · answer #10 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is a paradox if you say that god is real and he create the world then we get: Who created god? There is no response to the question but if someone can give me a response then i will be the best Christian on the world. But until that i will be an atheist.
2006-07-05 06:59:59 · answer #11 · answered by victim_of_bodom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋