and I find them all equaly worthless. Why does our President go around ranting like he's president of the 700club? "Oh hark and Fie on the "evil doers" we shall bring freedom and liberty to their victims, god is on our side!" How can anyone listen to that without getting an upset stomach? People gobble that stuff up like it's t-bone steak. Is it really just easier to believe than to think?
2006-07-21 10:10:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I like T-bone steak, I was using that as an example of how people really like what he saye, wasn't that obvious?
2006-07-21 10:16:48 · update #1
I'm not messed up, I'm perfectly sane, my question makes a lot of sence, your answer does not.
2006-07-21 10:18:16 · update #2
OK, I admit, there is a lot of oppinion in this question but it's simple. Why does Bush preach so much, and in such bad taste(also oppinio), he's the flippin president.
2006-07-21 10:21:03 · update #3
You don't have a problem with evil-doers?
I would never even use that word even if I was adressing children.
You don't value freedom and liberty?
never said that, the crusades are over, who are we liberating? only 178 countries to go right...
You are apparently taking alot for granted.
I think I covered the most important points whch I wish to discuss.
If you do nothing - where do you think we will be?
Let's ask Napolean and Hitler these same questions.
2006-07-21 10:27:55 · update #4
I do not strictly follow party lines, everyone in my family is Con, I decided for myself to jump off that ship a few years ago.
2006-07-21 10:29:54 · update #5
The scary thing about it is he sounds so much like the Antichrist
2006-07-21 10:15:42 · answer #1 · answered by robinhoodcb 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard the President mention the 700 Club, but then I don't listen to him. He's pretty much an idiot.
However, I take offense with your last line. I have a very hard time believing and have not even tried in the last 15 years or so, but I don't think that makes me smarter or better than anyone else. Read about some of the most intelligent people in the world, living or dead. Most of them believe(d) in a higher power. Many of them followed or follow a particular faith. Your final question is so common among righteous non-believers that I have to ask, have you ever thought for yourself, or do you just follow the party line?
2006-07-21 17:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by tianjingabi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what your real question is, but here goes:
1) Because GB has advisers who have probably turned his real faith into a publicity ticket, which is unfortunate.
2) Since I do not have a tv or listen to him on the radio, it does not upset my stomach.
3) Believing without seeing is really what faith is all about. If we are guided by GOD's Word and live a CHRIST-like life, our thinking will become clear and we can discern how much of anyone's (including the president) talk is faith and how much is promotion.
Keep seeking until you find a church that encourages your relationship with the LORD. GOD bless.
2006-07-21 17:25:46 · answer #3 · answered by woman of faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believing and thinking are not mutually exclusive. They work together.
If you take a class on logic you will find that thinking alone does not prove anything because first you have to establish that reality is rational. That can only be done by interacting with reality. Hence even there you have to believe that is possible (of course if you don't then you're irrational).
In any case, God created both thinking and belief. He did not want people to choose between them but to work with them and use them to love Him through Jesus and to love each other.
2006-07-21 17:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by Joshua 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a large percentage of the population, in a word, yes. Most people really do go through life looking for someone to tell them how to think and how to live. I don't understand it either.
Between observing the utter cluelessness of my fellow humans, and reading books on quantum physics, I go through life in a constant state of complete astonishment. LOL
2006-07-21 17:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have a problem with evil-doers?
You don't value freedom and liberty?
You are apparently taking alot for granted.
If you do nothing - where do you think we will be?
2006-07-21 17:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He found it useful. Personally I find that attribute of his frightening, particularly since it apparently means he makes decisions based more on religious whim than forethought, but that doesn't mean that the usefulness of faith is either universally appealing or unappealing. Religion, in many ways, is a matter of taste.
2006-07-21 17:15:28 · answer #7 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. I would know, having been a believer myself. No one wants to give the security of big daddy in the sky.
Thankfully, I realized thinking for myself was more important than having comfort in a delusion.
2006-07-21 17:15:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure these named denominations are very disappointed in you assestment of them. Gosh, do you realize they may even quit holding services. I wonder what they think of you. I would doubt very seriously if you have been to more than a couple of those churches you so willingly said were worthless.
2006-07-21 17:49:36 · answer #9 · answered by racam_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading Conversations with God by Neale Donald Wasch and see if that doesn't make a lot more sense than what you've been hearing.
Above all, think for yourself.
2006-07-21 17:19:42 · answer #10 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occasionally, it helps to remember that humans differ only slightly from chimps, and some Presidents differ from chimps less than the rest of us.
2006-07-21 17:15:00 · answer #11 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋