2006-09-10 08:33:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, good question though. Proof:
"Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense"
- Buddha -
2006-09-10 08:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Religion creates creates boundaries for knowledge.
Religion on the past tried to stop human curiosity and science by well burning those persons.
So now religion persons dont burn people anymore they just choose to believe their fairy tales, because Science demolished the cosmology of the bible, the myth of human creation as the biggest chauvinism ever
and well Religion is just like TX Huxley said "Every Religious person lies next to the craddle of every science like the strangled serpents next to the craddle of Hercules"
2006-09-10 15:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by Castevet 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Belief makes me have to think about all the stuff in this world, all the possiblities of the next world and how the two worlds seem to be working together.
2006-09-10 15:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by Wait a Minute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But many of my fellow believers and mostly some spokespersons do act as if the brain is sort of an inconvenient tumor.
2006-09-10 15:40:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They tried and didn't suceed.Having someone sit and try to tell me how to think or what I should believe is like waving a red flag at a bull.It simply made my quest to know why and question things that much stronger.
2006-09-10 15:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My spiritual and religious believes require me to constantly use by mind and by brain, because they require me to see and understand things from many differnet perspectives, not merely my own.
That means I am constantly learning from others and trying to grasp the way the view the world, to add to my own understanding of it.
2006-09-10 15:39:59 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope Im not religious. I always use my brain and think for my self.
2006-09-10 15:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by deadly_rose_04 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... Only caused me to use it more.
I go to church almost entirely for the Bible Study. The Bible is a fascinating book of truth that seeming contradicts itself many times. I enjoy studying around those contradictions as I always find new personal truths.
2006-09-10 15:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by Moose 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it made me use it better and more...and it relieved me of using it to think of things i wont find answers for ,,,and gonna make me lost:) it answered me and gave me the reason to use my brain....i dont take everything in life like it is ..without thinking because we are humans with brains for nothing!! and my brain is what lead me to my religion:)
2006-09-10 15:39:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, Prov 3:5, and 6 says “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Lean not to your own understanding, or don't think things through the way you think them to be but trust God , so in that sense yes, I'm instructed to trust God over my own mind, which is fine w/ me because I'm usually wrong anyway :)
2006-09-10 15:47:08 · answer #10 · answered by james p 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋