2006-07-11 07:15:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who's going to be the first person to say "I don't see air but I believe it exists."
2006-07-11 07:16:41 · update #1
It would be if anyone actually believed in god by faith. In reality, almost all believers have reasons they believe. Just ask any of them "why do you believe in god", and 95% will start rambling off reasons like 'something had to create us', or 'because evolution has been proven false', or 'because 100% of archaeology proves the bible is true', or similar crap.
So they believe because they find the evidence compelling, even though a child can see that it isn't, not because they have faith. Yet, they will finish rambling off this list of reasons and then turn right around and demand that YOU have faith. ...quite the double standard.
Although, to the extent it's a combination of faith and lowering the bar of evidence as a result, that's probably also a form of insanity.
2006-07-11 07:23:57 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answerer #a million -- no longer too lengthy, yet no longer significant adequate to truly debate. I actual have had a great number of fantastic debates with Christians of all denominations who did NONE of those issues, and the position do you get your ideas, anyhow? Who hears voices? Who calls human beings devils, and starts wars? What concept Hating? I also don't understand what you're speaking about in a million. -- scratching the floor and replacing the placement. Or 2. God is nearly a drug? perchance God is purely some thing that they base their existence on purely so that they don't pick a "fix" -- they purely lead a religious existence? you've outfitted a superficial and circumstantial case for a daft accusation. the concept in God isn't any better a psychological ailment than sitting down and typing on Yahoo solutions at nighttime once you need to be reading a e book. you have not any info that are supported by technique of info, you've some imprecise notions that you twisted round to slot your sick-ideal hypothesis of psychological ailment. i'm happy that you've been amused and entertained even as mocking and ridiculing committed believers of any faith, yet even as it truly is interesting for you, it became for sure interesting that you had at somebody else's price. even as i'm no longer a Christian, I actual may debate this topic with you at any time, and may truly no longer be in soreness if those are each and each and every of the info you should help your argument.
2016-12-01 01:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you see or hear a mathematical point? Or any geometrical figure? Or the number two? Or, stretching things, can you see "identity" or "difference" or "equivalence," or any other abstract concept? Can you see your own memories? With what sense organ do you presently preceive them? Mathematicians and logicians are certainly not suffering from mental illness, and neither are philosophers or theologians.
Did you really want an answer, sunshine? Are you actually capable of rational thought? Did it occur to you that there are theists out there who think more deeply and more clearly than you? Are you a grown-up, or a kid for whom these questions are a matter of selfish bravado?
2006-07-11 08:59:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never said have blind belief. However you choose to see what you want. If I really dont want to believe in a God then I will see only those things that point against his existence and vice versa
2006-07-11 07:27:32 · answer #4 · answered by h nitrogen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK... I will... or not...
blind belief might be a mental illness... unless the one believeing is actualy physicaly blind...
Those of the true Christian Faith do not follow our Faith blindly. We follow a Lord and Master that we Know to be true and real... emphasis on the KNOW.
I accept honest questions concerning the Christian Faith. Or, you can check me out at:
http://pages.zdnet.com/mikevanauken/mikesinternetoutreach/
All honest seekers welcome
2006-07-11 07:23:13 · answer #5 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gotta love people like dean_estelle - so sincere. Makes me smile, especially after reading her questions such as
did you see a physcologist, and did it help?
Which of the Desperate Housewives is the most appealing ? and the best one
would you be comfortable if someone who offended you, see you without makeup?
That's so deep !
2006-07-11 07:23:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will get plenty here that says that God does not exist, and they are so afraid !!!
God exist- He is real, and I love Him with my whole heart-
Not a form of mental illness, but a Living God.
why are people so afraid of admitting the truth ?
2006-07-11 07:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think thats called faith....believing what can't be proven.
its really the basis of all religion, so if so, we've got a lot of mentally ill people out there.
2006-07-11 07:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by ladylawyer26 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lilly Tomlin once joked that when we talk to God we are praying, when he talks back we are schizophrenic. God talks back to each of us in special ways. God himself says that those who believe, but have not seen will be blessed. We don't have to know why, we only need to know who. If we walk toward him one step, he runs to us two. Every time we take the time to learn more about the only Living God, he will reveal more of his beauty to us, and then it will be harder NOT to believe in his Love.
2006-07-11 07:22:28 · answer #9 · answered by Jennifer W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith? the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think!
2006-07-11 07:29:01 · answer #10 · answered by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋