Can it be assumed that most Christians make decisions based on emotional responses, while Atheists try to use?

Question

reason? I am not implying either is correct. I just want to see what everyone thinks.

Adherence to doctrine based on faith is an emotional action, or it is as I understand it.

Answer 1

Yes.

Graft blind faith to your brain and it becomes second nature to make decisions based on nothing more than "your gut". Hey, if it's good enough for gOd........

Learn and live by reason and, hey, guess what, you'll tend to make decisions based on..... REASON.

So there you have it. My answer is... basically... yes.

Answer 2

I think everyone has a god, be it sex, love, tv, money, etc. It all turns into an addiction if the person pursues it hard enough, as we're wired that way. We all worship something.

Just look at all the (Anything) Anonymous groups out there. I'm in one myself.

I know a lot of Christians and atheists and both use reason and emotion. No difference that I've seen. The only difference is that Christians use the Bible more, whereas atheists kind of have their own standards that they use, which is frustrating because there doesn't seem to be an established standard for them that anyone outside their own head can reach.

Making decisions based on God allows others to add their own outlooks and insights from the Bible and their own experience with God. I think atheism is much more alienating to a person, more solitary.

Answer 3

Well, that would depend on the Christian and the Atheist. As Catholics, we use reason and emotion to make decisions, because that is how we make decisions as human beings. A human being cannot make a decision without one or the other. Reason and emotion work in conjuction with one another. Reason would decide what is true and plan a course to attain or realize it. And as emotions go, they decide upon a good within that truth and plan a course to attain or realize it as well. But, if one were to reason alone (impossible), we would never pursue it if there was no emotion (passion) for the true/good that was decided on. It is a matter of which will have more emphasis or lead in the process. It is hoped there would be a balance between the two.
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Answer 4

No. Christians (hopefully) make their decisions based on guidelines laid out in the scriptures. As many of these guidelines are "general", meaning written to apply to everyone, it often takes thought to understand how to specifically apply them to your life. For example, the Bible says that "bad company corrupts good morals". That is a general principle. But the Christian has to use though and discernment to know if a person is a "bad company". Are they someone who helps or harms their life? And then they act on it. Can emotions enter into such a decision? Of course. But it is not the only, or often even the most improtant, factor in such a decision.

I have no clue what an atheist uses as their base of decisions, as I am sure it varies with every individual since they have no one common center point for their decisions. And I am sure that emotion also has a place in their decisions.

Neither group is smarter, more logical, or more emotional that the other. They just have different values on which they make decisions.

Answer 5

Dear Sinyckel: There are roads to the great Connecting with your Creator that are through experiences - rather than through emotional responses toward the reading or teachings you take in.
Not all traditional religions will allow "experiences" to be valued, because they teach faith is based on knowing - what you do not know! I do not adhere to that, myself. I care not for faith. I want Certainty. Therefore, I am not of a traditional "faith."

Atheists will not allow anything but their "intellect" to decide what is or what is not so. All matters of the intellect are of the physical world - a world that "hides" your Reality. A world that veils your
eyes that you may not see. The Separation is real. Atheists rejoice due to what they can not see nor prove. The intellect is, of course, the human mind. It Wills you do not remember why the Creator/Father seems so far away from you and unknown.

The soul knows. All memory is contained within the soul - not the intellect. It has no eyes to "see" with, but Knows Itself as part of it's Creator.

It may be suggested that the Atheist has successfully denied his own Identity.

If emotional response to the greatest Love of your life is disdainful to you - you are in Agreement to keep the Separation.

If you are willing to Connect and to learn how to do so, there can be experiences that offer Certainty, beyond faith.

There are readings out there in the world that can lead you to those experiences.

The Atheist simply has not found his Connection - his Identity, because his human mind is allowing nothing but its intellect to operate within himself. It will lead you wrongly.

Answer 6

That is a ridiculous assumption. For starters there are too many atheist who are atheist based on emotions. How many times have we heard it said that " a loving God would not allow disease/war/suffering etc. to happen"? Therefore many atheist are motivated by their emotions. It is simply a different emotional response. Let's say a person looses their beloved mother and then turns away from God or maybe they never believed in God in the first place. It is likely that their belief is strengthened by their emotional suffering. They may even harden their heart and not allow themselves to be vulnerable. But that is still a response to their emotions. So they are constantly basing their decisions on emotions.
From your perspective, the replies of most atheist may seem logical. From my perspective, it looks like their are a lot of you who have been hurt. In fact, it is obvious.

Answer 7

No. Not if this site is any example. Both groups are emotional here. What I see here every day is both groups showing their anger towards each other. If many of the atheists here were reasonable they would spend their energy on something more productive then pointlessly insulting Christians. The same applies to Christians who do nothing but insult atheists.

Basically, if you're looking for reason, the "religion" section of Yahoo! Answers may not be the place to find it.

Answer 8

I am a Christian and try to base most of my decisions on logic. Actually, logic rather than emotion has drawn me to Christianity. If I were to look at my faith from an emotional standpoint, I would go atheist all the way.

From my studies of science, history, archeology and literature, Christianity is the only thing that logically makes sense.

My emotions draw me the other way.

Crazy isn't it? Well, you asked.

Answer 9

From what i can see, some Christians say that morality comes from the bible, and it is the reason they anticipate atheists are a lot less moral or moral. If that become authentic, the first Christians ought to have had no morals as there become no bible then. There should be some variety of organic morality in the different case our species ought to have killed itself off previously some thing like faith become got here across or invented. thanks for being open-minded - that is the in hardship-free words thanks to the reality. The unusual component is, the nastiest, bitchiest comments I have ever considered in newspaper letters to the editor were in Christian newspapers, and that i say that having been a commonplace subscriber to the Methodist Recorder in the course of the 18 years i turned right into a lay preacher. i comprehend a tremendous variety of human beings have criticised Richard Dawkins for "The God fantasy" among different issues, in spite of the undeniable fact that it is those who're biased adversarial to him to commence with. i have considered some tries to criticise the e book on philosophical grounds, yet they cave in (i'm a philosophy graduate so i comprehend!) Sorry to convey this up yet I even might want to - the OT god's ethics seem quite repellent to me. He sanctions genocide so the Israelites could have the promised land. purely one among many stuff which finally confident me Christianity is misguided.

Answer 10

Yes, it can be assumed. In fact, ANYTHING can be assumed about Christians and atheists and how they make decisions. We all make assumptions all the time. The issue is whether the assumption made is correct. I would say NO. Then again, your question is too broad based to enable a really meaningful response. You should qualify your question, or rephrase it.

Answer 11

To assume that Christians make all their decisions in life based on emotion and that Atheists always use reason for every decision would be ridiculous at best.