I f the bible and other religious literature were proved to be just fairytales.........?

Question

Would people stop preaching and just make more of an effort to live life to the full???

Ok so the bible and religious literature is supposed to give us a moral base on which society exists,
however the book itself was written by man and not god.
So it kinda dispells the theory that god gave us these rules, the reality is mankind made them up himself and used the idea of god as a catalyst.

Answer 1

What do you mean "proved"? I thought everyone knew they were!!!???

Answer 2

why do people hate religion so much?

The fact is that religion teaches peace and love and togetherness, which is basically the bedrock of all civilisation. Without these things the world would cease to be.

With regard to the observation that religion causes wars, it does not. How can peace and love cause wars? what really starts wars is the evil of men, who need an excuse to justify their evil. Also people forget that science has killed and tortured as many people as religion has, for eaxmple nazis used jews for scientifc experiments, and the treament of mental patinets in the last couple of centurys by scientists is little short of brutal.

the point is that the bilble is a good moral compass, which in the hands of good men would create a perfect sopciety if we could adhere to its teachings. Whever or not it is real is neither here nor there, as it is the teacheing that are important.

Answer 3

well the problem with that clunk is to prove the bible to be fairytales youd have to prove the basis fo the bible is a fairytale. youd have to prove God does not exist. now can that be done? as long as there has been recorded history people have tried to prove the same thing and they are yet to do it. science is the only thing thts come close to doing it but even science cant deny the existance of God. science is something we humans use as a form of understanding about our surroundings and how they work. the only thing science has done is proven what God already knows. here is you a question. if the bible was proven to be factual which i believe it is then would all these people that deny it change their way of living to coincide with the bibles teaching in order to make it to heave or would they still not care about it live the way they want to and suffer eternally for it?

Answer 4

Living life to the full can only be achieved by reconnecting the individual consciousness with the absolute, no-one exists outside of the absolute truth, there is just a perception provided for those individuals, who want to imagine that there is no God, namely the material energy.

The material or illusory energy is in an ever shifting state of constant flux, to provide individuals with the opportunity to exist separately from their original status in the spiritual world, by forming a particular type of mentality like a shirt, then the material energy, under the directive of the Supreme, will then provide a material body to suit that mentality the individual chooses to develop, like a coat.

However if the living entity realises their error in judgement or misuse of free will, then the opportunity is given to transcend the infection of the soul, namely the desire to exist separately from God and return to the spiritual world. Choose to learn how to transcend the cycle of the repitition of birth, disease,old age & death.

Choose wisely :-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 5

god is supposed to have guided the people who physically wrote the bible,and anyway, if there is a god, we should follow the teachings of love and peace ( which can't be bad eh? ) and if there isn't we should still follow it anyway, and at least try to do the right thing by people. there are loads of things that are beyond our comprehension but we are so complex, someone or something put us together!! if it were proved that god did not exist, it would not stop preaching. there would always be something for people to preach about! and life is too short we should ALWAYS live life to the full anyway!!! and if we have a conscience we should let it be our guide!!!!!!!!!!!!! bye.

Answer 6

The Bible written eons in the past, cannot provide us with any solid, concrete facts. Some words are used metaphorically, others literally. Unless someone is ready to take a leap of faith, it is not that easy to just start believing in its Word without proof, especially in today's Western world where we check and double-check every little piece of information for accuracy.
I am a secular humanist myself, but I deeply admire the people who can dedicate their lives to their beliefs (only if they are peaceful of course) and who are guided by their hearts and not their brains. Some of them feel very happy, peaceful and fulfilled. Then again, some feel guilty by merely doing any little thing that makes them happy. However, I have met fanatical atheists who harbour intense feelings of guilt about being happy and who certainly do not live life to the full. If we define "live life to the fullest" as "actualizing one's potential" in the Aristotelian sense, even an atheist would agree that Mother Teressa lived her life to the very fullest.

Answer 7

I don't know what you're talking about. I just got back from a 3-day sail in Noah's ark (won the bid for it on ebay) and it was awesome (weird, I saw where the tyroanassarus rex sat). I used it to visit Adam and Eve's former home and it was kinda cool (the snake was still there but I knew better than to pay tourist prices for the fruit!). So ... given all that, don't we know fact when we see it?

Answer 8

If you were a child and somebody told you Santa Claus wasn't real, would you cry?
Every person is entitled to his/her own beliefs. If that person chooses to believe the Bible and every other piece of religious literature ever written, then so be it. On the other side of the coin, if that person chooses to believe every piece of scientific "evidence" disputing the exsistance of God altogether, so be it. It is when we realize that, whatever it may be, we DO believe in something that we then can live our lives to the fullest.

Answer 9

Religion is a good way of controlling the masses. It gives people an excuse to do terrible things to each other. In my view we should all stop worrying about some mythical creature that no one can prove exists anyway. We can all only be sure of one thing, that we have each other.

Answer 10

apart from the total lunatics, the stories are still good moral compasses for children and adults alike. And if a person lives a happy and good life, without hurting other people too much, then it doesnt matter whether they get it from bible stories or some other place does it

Answer 11

Maybe we'd live in a peaceful world. Religious differences seem to cause the most wars.
The problem is someone would write a different book and claim it to be the word of god and we'd be back where we started.