How can it be that in the year 2006, the awesome scientific age we live in, can people still have such dark age views, like believing in supernatural beings???? It blows my mind. I just can't believe so many people were duped into a story so full of holes?? WOW! How did it happen? It must be the biggest scam of all time.
2006-08-11 04:58:56 · 39 answers · asked by dino_ou812 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO BODY IS BEING SCAMED, EXCEPT YOU.
2006-08-11 05:01:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You know that is what I’ve been saying for years now.
In the past we had an excuse to believe in the boogie man because humanity didn’t know any better. We had excuses to believe in a fire god or a sky god because we had no way of interpreting the events happening around us. Every religion we have today is simply another form of these earlier religions. However, with the technological advances and scientific discoveries we have made, and continue to make everyday, it doesn’t make sense why we still need a religious crutch.
A rational person rejects all human gods equally, because all of them are equally imaginary. How do we know that they are imaginary? Simply imagine that one of them is real. If one of these thousands of gods were actually real, then his followers would be experiencing real, undeniable benefits. These benefits would be obvious to everyone. The followers of a true god would pray, and their prayers would be answered. The followers of a true god would therefore live longer, have fewer diseases, have lots more money, etc. There would be thousands of statistical markers surrounding the followers of a true god.
Everyone would notice all of these benefits, and they would gravitate toward this true god. And thus, over the course of several centuries, everyone would be aligned on the one true god. All the other false gods would have fallen by the wayside long ago, and there would be only one religion under the one true god.
When we look at our world today, we see nothing like that. There are two billion Christians AND there are more than one billion Muslims, and their religions are mutually exclusive. There are thousands of other religions. When you analyze any of them, they all show a remarkable similarity -- there is zero evidence that any of these gods exist. That is how we know that they are all imaginary.
2006-08-11 05:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, you believe that you have to breathe to live.
Some people belive life is hard. Some people believe fruit is good. Some people believe sugar is better than fake, and vice versa. Some people believe in the Wizard Of the Sky, and some people believe in Zombie Jesus. Some people believe in Energy, and some people believe in nothing at all.
We should write a Dr Seus book about it.
In any case, it's all a belief, no one knows what happens after death - so everyone believes something. We'll all find out in time, thankfully, and we get to laugh and joke and be like AHAHAHA ok yeah that was a good one.
The problem is vocalism. Not religion.
You know why vocalism is the problem?
Because people like you try to put out their belief expecting agreement. And yeah, people will agree. Some people, that don't agree, however, will give THEIR point of view. If you're a kind person say "Oh well interesting and good for you!"
Instead, you say "OMG LIAR!" and then everyone starts talking.
O_+
2006-08-11 05:06:49 · answer #3 · answered by Solrium 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bible predictions of things to happen in the future confirm the inspiration of Scripture as they come to pass. Notice the following examples of fulfilled Bible prophecies:
A. Four world empires to arise: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (Daniel chapters 2, 7, 8).
B. Cyrus to be the warrior to capture Babylon (Isaiah 45:1-3).
C. After Babylon's destruction, it would never be inhabited again (Isaiah 13:19, 20; Jeremiah 51:37).
D. Egypt would never again have a commanding position among the nations (Ezekiel 29:14, 15; 30:12, 13).
E. Earth-shaking calamities and fear toward the end of time (Luke 21:25, 26).
F. Moral degeneracy and decline of spirituality in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word, God has committed to man the knowledge necessary for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are the infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, the test of experience, the authoritative revealer of doctrines, and the trustworthy record of God's acts in history. (2 Peter 1:20, 21; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; Ps. 119:105; Prov. 30:5, 6; Isa. 8:20; John 17:17; 1 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 4:12.)
2006-08-11 05:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe that those who constantly trash religion are the same people who, especially scientists, have some of the oddest theories around.
As for supernatural beings, doesn't a good amount of the scientific community now believe in paranormal activity, even going so far as to create machines to pick up this activity?
Correct me if I'm wrong, oh genius who knows little to nothing, but wouldn't ghosts/spirits be supernatural beings too?
Go put your helmet back on and make sure you don't miss that short bus, it should be along shortly.
Edit: Here's something for you oh so enlightened people to explain to us ignorant religious people. Why is it so hard for you to believe there could be a God, but many of you have no problem believing that there is 8 to 10 foot tall monkey people wondering around various regions of Earth, yet noone can find any physical proof of thier existance. (Yeti, Sasquatch, Big Foot, et all)
2006-08-11 05:13:17 · answer #5 · answered by baldninja2004 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who are the "Supernatural" beings you refer to? If it is God, well, I ask you, how can you not believe in an all encompassing love and light. Yes bad things happen in the world, but they are all a part of learning.
If you mean believing in a higher self, that there are guardian angels, teachers, etc. out there to help us, that all we need to do is ask and we will receive the guidance that we seek, well, if you don't believe, that is your choice. Some souls are ready for that journey and others may never be.
Open yourself up to the possibilities and you will see the vastness of all that is.
2006-08-11 05:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by auntb629 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be so quick to see science as the be-all and end-all of everything.
Science has f**d up a lot over the course of history too -- lots of times.
It took science a long time to figure out that using leeches isn't good medicine. It took science a long time to figure out that the world is round.
It took science a long time to figure out lots of things.
Even today, there are many questions to which science can only answer, "We don't know."
You're making it sound like science is perfect, and that science konws everything. But it's not, and it doesn't.
Science is a wonderful thing -- but it's a gift from God. So is our mental capacity to understand it. That's what separates us from every other form of living thing.
Science and faith go hand in hand. It's why the Catholic Church was (and in some places, still is) the patron of arts and learning and science over the ages.
But it's unscientific to say that "God doesn't exist" -- unless you can prove He doesn't, which you can't.
Science-worshippers conclude that God doesn't exist, yet they admit they can't prove that He doesn't. That's not very scientific, is it?
2006-08-11 05:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Really. It surprises me that with all our advances in science and technology that it doesn't open more minds to wonder what is around us and speculate about it. We have seen that even in the most unbelievable places (an underwater fissure with sulfuric acid just oozing out and unbelievable temperatures) we can find life that we would never have guessed existed. So is it so wrong to wonder what else is around us that we didn't know was there?
2006-08-11 05:05:42 · answer #8 · answered by Stephen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When considering conspiracy theories, I find it's best to apply the scientific principle of Occums Razor (look it up if you don't know it). The more complicated the conspiracy theory, the less seriously I take it. Your theory about all supernatural beliefs and religiosity that have ever existed - yeah, that's got to be the most complicated one I've heard yet. Sorry, I can't take it very seriously.
2006-08-11 05:15:16 · answer #9 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To which set of supernatural beings are you referring? Leprechauns? Yes, I believe in them. I'm of Irish descent, and the story goes that if anyone who is of Ireland does not believe, then all Leprechauns die. I refuse take that responsibility. Gods? Well.....maybe. Ghosts? Probably not. Werewolves? Hmmmm? Vampires? Honest lawyers? Honorable Arabs? Aren't all of these fictional supernatural creatures?
2006-08-11 05:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just can't believe in this age of rational thought, people think this world just kinda happened. It blows my mind!
2006-08-11 05:02:24 · answer #11 · answered by Michael F 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋