What are some of the actual beliefs in some religions that are impossible for you to believe?

Question

Or make you laugh because the idea is just so stupid you are shocked anyone believes it..

Answer 1

I could never believe that there isn't a God.

Answer 2

If Someone Does Not Believe That Jesus Is The only Way, Then That Belief Is Impossible For Christians To accept

Answer 3

That Islam is a religion of Peace. If it really was, you would not have people going into buildings, knowing full well that there are women and children inside, with the intention of blowing the place to bits. You can see the reasons that it is not a religion of peace, since they could have all the senior Mullahs write Sharia Laws against it, but do they? NO, they do not, nor do you hear loud protests from the large Islamic populations around the world.

Answer 4

the Mormons believe that the 10 lost tribes of Israel somehow migrated to America and built up a vast civilisation that was
an utopia, but somehow was destroyed by invaders (that's when the so-called gold plates were buried that Joseph Smith found and translated) All this and yet no archeoligical evidence to support
that premise....plus the transcripts that Joseph Smith supposedly
copied from the golden plates (I saw them at the museum at the
Salt Lake City Temple) are just squiggles and dashes and codebreakers say there is no hidden message to be found there,
make no sense....plus there are passages in the Book of Mormon that tatally copy parts of the books of Jeremiah and Isaiah including the translating mistakes that are found in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible. Totally bogus

Answer 5

Any belief that humans hold a special place in this universe is laughable. Our universe existed for some 14 B.Y. without us. We might continue to exist in our present form for another couple of million years longer (if we don't self-destruct sooner), after which the universe will go happily on without us. (Forgive the sudden attack of anthropomorphism!)

Our arrogant species is only one out of millions, part of a thin film of life on a tiny planet (Earth) orbiting a ho-hum star (the Sun), one out of roughly 100,000,000,000 stars in a ho-hum galaxy (the Milky Way), one of many millions of galaxies in the observable universe.

Apparently, many members of this minority species of humans think that some god or other put this all here, just for us. These people suffer from delusions of grandeur on a truly colossal scale!

Excessive faith is a mental illness.

Answer 6

Let's see... there's...

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
*  shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
*  conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  the sun stopping 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

Answer 7

Baptizing babies is one of the really hard ones to comprehend. Then when they are 8-12 years old they go through the "confirmation", basically repeating their baptism vows.

The Catholic church knows these children are not old enough to make these decisions for themselves, that is why a "sponser" is required.

The birth control issue is another one, but it is more undergound than the baptism and confirmation.

Then you have the belief in purgatory................

Answer 8

Like "gracefully_s..." said..."virgins in heaven" (Who the he|| needs more than 42 virgins anyway?) (Then again, what if they're virgins for a particular REASON!? *eek*)

"I am killing in the name of my god"
That's another good one...what kind of god needs a lowly earthling to do what he commanded us not to do for ourselves? Any kind of god worthy of the title God would have enough power to wipe us off the planet and out of the known universe with a bat of an eye!

Answer 9

I can't believe that some people believe that a spaceship is coming for them on a tail of a comet. Or, that cows are holy and you cannot eat them. Or, that they will get virgins in heaven. Where do these virgins come from? It's a weird concept.

Answer 10

First that I have to go into this little "outhouse" to tell another human about my "sins".

And second: C'mon, what kind of hypocrisy is it that someone who is comatose, even though they were in some criminal organization, involved in the annihilation of innocent people and can still be absolved of their sins!?!

Answer 11

Well talking bushes and talking donkeys, and sticks that turn into snakes are suspect in my eyes. Sounds like a freaking Disney movie, but what do I know right? I'm just an ignorant agnostic.