...but when they're in a church they're not considered crazy?
2006-07-24 12:55:01 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm intriqued by this question. What other things can one get away with if done inside a church?
2006-07-25 07:57:11 · answer #1 · answered by Nightwalker 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because religion seems to convey some sort of unspoken immunity from being considered crazy. Even at a superficial level, Christianity is irrational... and at a deeper level, it is quite insane.
Consider some of the 'inerrant truths' from the bible... some of the 'beliefs' of Christians:
* a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
* solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
* talking snakes and donkeys
* demons chased out of people and into pigs
* friendly spirits
* evil spirits
* walking on water
* multiplying loaves and fishes
* people raising from the dead
* stopping the sun in its tracks
* parting seas
* people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
* world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
* creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
* magical tree of knowledge
* god speaking from a burning bush
* ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
It is quite evident that in a sane world, if someone were to go around asserting that ANY of those things represented an innate 'truth' pertaining to the nature of existence and reality, that person would end up being locked up in the 'State Farm for the Funny'. Oddly, though, MASS insanity seems to convey some sort of automatic immunity along with it, since hundreds of millions of people assert ALL of these things to be true, and nobody thinks anything of it (well... SOME of us do). Not only are these people NOT locked up, but it is considered to be bad manners... politically incorrect... 'intolerant'... to even call attention to the obvious insanity of these ideas. Yet approximately 87% of the adult population of the USA is INFECTED by what seems to be some sort of insidious brain virus, that is transmitted in the form of information.
How can this NOT be seen as a major problem... considering that this insane belief system has been DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for such historical aberrations as the Dark Ages and such atrocities as the Inquisition, the Salem Witch trials, the Crusades...? (the list goes on, and on, and on.)
So, how is it that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders have come to represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH'... without the least bit of credible evidence?
2006-07-24 13:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear:♥Agrippina♥ they are possessed with an evil spirit, this is not the true spirit of GOD,THIS IS THE DECEIVER IN THEM.
Re:16:14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
2006-07-24 13:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by flindo61 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, they ought to be considered crazy (or deceptive) in either circumstance. Speaking in tongues is not supposed to be a circus act, whether in church or out of church.
2006-07-24 12:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who you talk to...personally, I think that they're crazy either way, but in church they at least have an excuse.
2006-07-24 12:58:08 · answer #5 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make a valid point.
Acting crazy in the name of religion goes against the Bible pattern.
All those crazies mentionned in the Bible were not worshippers of God.
Some became worshippers of God and lo and behold!
They stop their squirming and babbling.
2006-07-24 12:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says they're not? And by the same token, who says those in the world are? Could be craziness, physical ailment like epilepsy, or could be God. Who am I to say what tools God can and can't use?
2006-07-24 12:59:22 · answer #7 · answered by byhisgrace70295 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still consider them crazy when they do that in church.
2006-07-24 12:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by el diablo sexy : ] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are around other people who are doing the same thing. Crazy people don't know when other people are crazy.
2006-07-24 20:41:22 · answer #9 · answered by NA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is the difference between exchanging the occasional email and jumping on a couch on the Oprah Winfrey Show
2006-07-24 15:35:00 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋