If you believe so much in this God of yours even though you've never seen him, why do you refuse to believe in fairies and leprechauns?
2006-07-11 10:46:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay, there's an answer in here I must retort to.
Fairies and Leprechauns don't exist because there's no mention of them being saved on the ark. Last I recall, there's no mention of the American buffalo being saved on the ark. Does that mean that all those buffalo I saw in the wildlife refuge don't really exist?
2006-07-11 14:30:31 · update #1
Excellent question.
Leprechauns, pixies and fairies have as much to do with reality as god and jesus do.
They are all imaginary. Nothing more. Yet apologists will continue to insist that thier favorite flavor of myth is the right one. Why? Look at the collection plate for your answer...
2006-07-11 10:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
You may be surprised to know you are not the first person to ask this question. The existence of fairies, leprechauns, centaurs, unicorns, aliens, etc has been debated before, and by better theologians than anyone represented here.
The summary of the "great debate" was: we do not know of such creatures, so we cannot say that they either exist or not, or if they DO exist, what they are like and how they relate to God.
It was the religiously educated way to say: there is a lot to this universe that we don't know about yet. We'll figure that out when we get there.
As for believing in God when "I" haven't seen Him, that is easy. There has been a lot of revelation already given to other people, that has been recorded for centuries. I've never seen Genghis Khan, Caesar Augustus, Pope Gregory (the Great), Christopher Columbus, or Darwin, Australia, either, but that doesn't invalidate their individual existence. I have chosen to believe the records of the people who witnessed the people and places I may never see in this life.
That is what faith is: trust.
Are there leprechauns and fairies? I don't know. If they do exist, they would do themselves well to stay the heck away from humanity. We're a really xenophobic bunch.
2006-07-11 23:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do people believe that Christians do not attach reason to their beliefs.
Here are your reasons
1) Fairies do not have a specific definition and vary from culture to culture.
2)Leprauchauns and their pot of gold. If this was true then there should be at lease one person with proof of gold at the end of a rainbow.
3) Leprauchauns and fairies do not offer an explaination of the creation of the world, the present condition of the present world, human nature, the purpose of the human life. Christianity does.
2006-07-11 17:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by h nitrogen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were there ever fairies and leprechauns except in tales that have no truth whatsoever...or what truth there is has been forgotten. God has shown his existence to humans in everything, including creation and the Bible...fairies and leprechauns don't have proof like that!
2006-07-11 17:52:12 · answer #4 · answered by Perilous Rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause it does not speak of them being put on Noah's Ark in the Bible.
2006-07-11 17:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because fairies and leprechauns dont offer magical places that you go to after you die.
2006-07-11 17:49:39 · answer #6 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says I don't? And in mermaids and unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster.
Aren't they all God's creatures?
Why haven't I seen them? They are discreet.
2006-07-11 17:50:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Leprechauns never wrote a book"
I'm sure someone's bound to say that...
2006-07-11 17:49:22 · answer #8 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Jesus is in my mind kicking them out.
2006-07-11 17:49:44 · answer #9 · answered by champben2002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love this argument. They got nothing for it.
2006-07-11 17:49:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋