How do people become so ignorant?

Question

Religion is not fact or legitimate history so why must people state it as such? I'm not trying to say that anyone's religion is wrong ,but it shouldn't tried to be applied to things that are concrete as where theological beliefs and deities are abstract froms brought about by the imagination to make us feel comfort in our lives. I believe there is a "God" but I don't think God should be used to explain everything...i.e.Hurricane Katrina...Somethings are simple science and don't need any devine reasoning.

the statement was i'm not "trying" to say anyone's religion is wrong...but i still believe most religion is driven by convenience, social norms, and mental comfort...sorry if you're insulted

No sir, ignorant is celebrating Cristmas when historically Jesus could not have been born during this time. It is a Pagan holiday and we should probably be punched for saying otherwise ,but since people get all nice during this time supposedly I'll let it slide.

Obviously some of you have issues with reading this all the way through...I should've just asked. This is what I get when people decide to take everything out of context and misconstrew my meaning. Its alright; its just human nature to mold things to your convenience when you do not understand.

Answer 1

They listen to preachers, etc and read only stuff written by Christians rather than use their own brains and research the facts for themselves.
God is the creator not the overseer of the earth. We either have a moral code built into us or we have been born with one defect after another. As an adult you should know the difference between right and wrong and therefore act accordingly. But so many people don't and that is where evil comes into the equation. There is also those who want more and want to cause trouble and there will be until the end of the human race.

I don't believe in Christmas either, it was just a pagan holiday. And today it is just another way to get deeper in debt holiday.

Answer 2

You're right, in that some things don't need divine reasoning as a part of their expectations. Hurricanes happen, that's all. And its presumptuous to try and explain such disasters as "punishment from God," because nobody has a complete roadmap to God's will for mankind.

But for those of us who are religious, we MUST apply our beliefs to physical reality. For us, religion is not imagination, it is real.

If there is no physical manifestation of spiritual things, then one must accept that either

a) there is no such thing as a spiritual dimension, or
b) spiritual things simply don't apply to us.

If we believe physical beings transform and transend into spiritual beings, then they must be connected.

Both Christians and Jews believe that God worked through moses to part the red sea, and perform other wonders. Christans believe that Jesus was the physical manifestation of God, and that he performed miracles -- spiritual intervention affecting physical matter, several times.

Basically, religious people don't just go to church on Sunday, they live a lifestyle wherein their entire basis for being is their faith. We pray, not as a ritual, but in actual expectation of God's intervention on our behalf.

And until you can conclusively disprove God's existence, and scientifically explain away every unusual event in history, then believing doesn't make us ignorant. It makes us believers.

Answer 3

All things do happen for a reason even though we cant understand why and yes some thing just do happen. Like a diamond there has to be pressure for it to shine the end result if you will. There are trial and tribulation but how someone can deal with life without the Creator of Life I will never know, some use drugs, booze, ect.
The Him be the Rock in the Storm!

Answer 4

Hmmm... if I asked any archaeologist where "Sodom and Gomorrah", "Jericho", and "Jerusalem" are, they will point them out to me, and show me what makes them so special (a foot worth of ash, charcoal, and crushed skeletons in S&G, walls that fell exactly the way the Bible describes in Jericho, and walls and footpaths that've been around since Jesus' time in Jerusalem). That sounds like pretty legitimate history to me.

Yes, some things are the direct result of natural phenomenon. However, there are some things that are not. Over the past 75 years, natural disasters have been on a worldwide rise, and are becoming even more frequent every year. Each year breaks new heat records. Yet these things are what Jesus spoke about, and John the Revelator wrote about, as Jesus' return draws closer.

Pay heed not just to the fact that, it happens, but rather, *when* it happens. As the US is a predominantly Christian country, take note of each time we do something that is not favorable towards Israel (ie the Roadmap to Peace, and the attempts to split Jerusalem into a Jewish and Palestinian sector), and you will see a rapid rise of natural disasters, or one immense disaster, here in the following weeks. As we do things that are favorable towards Israel, there are less. (see Genesis 12:3, Zechariah 12)

It would be ignorant to "ignore" the very signs of God's presence. Many Christians, myself included, are anticipating fulfillment of prophecy, especially with the current mideast crisis.

One prophecy I'm keeping my eye on is the utter destruction of Damascus (the only city in the world that has never been completely depopulated, let alone in the matter of a single night [only Hiroshima and Nagasaki were decimated so quickly]).

Isaiah chp. 17 reads, in part, "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap...And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob [Israel] shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean....The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind....And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us [Israel], and the lot of them that rob us."

Israel has recently made mention that if Syria uses WMD's against them (fat portion of Israel becoming lean), they'd blow Damascus off the map (at evening, trouble, at morning, he is no more). Although it hasn't happened yet, the UN is constantly talking about sending peacekeeping troops out that way (nations shall rush like water), yet no nation wants to actually deploy the individual troops (and God'll chase'em off).

You do the math. Time to attribute to God the things God has done. I'd rather err on the side of attributing something natural as something God has done, than to deny as being natural, something God really did do.

Answer 5

i agree that it should not be used for explanation. because who knows what other people believe in and it's not the same as what you believe. i just think that it is all interelated, like the things that happen to us (bad,good) has a reason and that is all part in God's plan... we may not believe it..but everything all works out into One BIGGER plan we just don't clearly see.
What scientists, psychologists have studied, the new facts about the universe we discover...are just some living proof of how God had geniusely created to be what everything else is what it is now and everything to work perfectly well... Faith and Science really do work along each other not against...that is what i believe..
but i admit it is weird to be specific like that..

Answer 6

They are ignorant because ideas and thoughts frighten them. Learning about the world is difficult and takes time. For the most part these people are intellectually lazy.
They want a once sentence answer to thier questions about Evolution (not that they'd accept one if it was given) but since science doesn't work that way, they accept the simple but utterly incorrect answer that "god did it" instead.
I really do pity them.

Answer 7

Ignorance is the lack or abscence of knowledge. As such, we are all born entirely ignorant of anything. Your question should be: why do we persist in our ignorance? And you contradict yourself horribly. You say you're not saying anyone's religion is wrong, then say that all their gods and deities are just the results of their own imaginations to give them comfort.

Answer 8

RELIGION is something People Believe in to make them selves FEEL better.
Religion is truely the Opiate of the People.
The Darkness on this EARTH that get's in our Mind's tries to keep us in error (Lie's). You have to struggle to come out of the Darkness and Learn TRUTH.
TRUTH will set you FREE and is REALITY, not Religion.
Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding (LIGHT) will dispell the Darkness in our Mind's. It's up to the Individual as to whether they want to Learn anything.

The Creator Created the EARTH and put Spiritual Law's into it befor HE ever put Mankind on it. The EARTH and it's Law's were built to run on Automatic, and they do.
Gravity operate's by Spiritual Law's, you reap what you sow, operate's on Automatic too, and it cover's the Action's of Individual's, community's, city's, state's, country's and the Population of the EARTH as a Whole. We cause thing's to come back to us, good or bad. Basically, Period.

Answer 9

I guess they have to really work at it. Practice, practice, practice. I also believe there is a "God" but I'm not accepting definitions from others as to what that might be. If I HAD to believe in something -- which I don't since I don't live in a Muslim country (thank God, heh heh) --I would be a Pantheist.

Answer 10

"If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through."
2 Corinthians 4:3,4
God does not cause disasters as many claim. He does not kill little babies to take them to heaven. These are lies that many religious leaders of Christendom promote. They paint Jehovah as a cruel, unkind God that kills people on a whim. Jehovah God is a God of love.
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