Spiritual or religious life comes from the heart and so no need to worry about your brain, right?

Answer 1

Well if they want You to do weird stuff Sara, use Your brain. If it's all about singing songs for Jesus and a bit of Sunday worship then use Your Heart, a good leap of Faith is never past Your own personal boundaries. I am vexed by You, are you provocateur or zealot. I am amused either way. Don't do the weirdo stuff no matter how churchy they tell You it is!! Take care.

Answer 2

Heh, you're funny. :) Given the way your evangelicals, fundies and zealots of *all* faiths have been misbehaving, you'd think that is exactly what everyone wants, right?

But it couldn't be further from the truth.

Look, regardless of what you believe or how you believe you *got here*, the fact remains....you got here a human being, right? You didn't get here on this earth as a herd animal or a pigeon or any such thing, you showed up as a human.

You were born a person. Now....what *IS* the single most special thing *about* people, that separates them from every other animal on the planet?

Intelligence. Our capacity to use our minds and our free will to create. THIS is what so many religious traditions really *mean* when they say we were "made in God's image", that we DO have minds and wills and *can* to a limited degree create *something from nothing*.

So many, too many, "people of faith" would have you either disregard your mind entirely or tend to it *dead last* as you find your way to eternity....

I'd humbly submit that you have to attend to your *mind* FIRST.

You have to convince yourself, as an intelligent person, FIRST, that your faith is the truth, otherwise.....who is to say that your *heartfelt* faith isn't just some manner of schizotypal delusion?

Honor that which makes you a *human being*, and not a sheep, ok? Just trust me on this....a lot of folks *don't* have this one right. Convince your brain and you will trust your heart to be sincere and connected with *reality*....fail to do so and your "faith" will be nothing more than a madness that has the protection and sanction of *human society*, and no grip whatsoever on anything *real* in this life OR the next.

Or...you could look up the Biblical verse of: "Be as innocent as the dove, and as wise as the serpent," and see if there are any *counterparts* to the sentiment across ALL of the good books in ALL faiths....there are, but these ideas are also among the most widely IGNORED too. ;)

Good luck to you and thanks for your time!

Answer 3

We humans have long recognized that we are made of several different parts or that we exist on several different planes of being. We are physical creatures, but we are also minds and we are also spirits. Some belief systems would like to teach us that some part of the system is evil and must be avoided, but in my own experience, I have found that my human life works best when all of my components function together. In some religions, they tell you that your body is evil and that you must learn to be a mind and a spirit and that your real closeness with God can't happen until you leave your body, as in after you deny your sexuality and better yet after you die. Some spiritual methods tell you that your mind is evil and that you can't be enlightened until you stop thinking, then they send you out into the world without a thought in your little head and you have some kind of mindless accident. It really takes all three things working in cooperation to be a human being: a soul with a mind acting through a body. It is rather like a computer system. The body is the hardware, the mind is the software, the soul is the user. Remove any component and it just doesn't compute.
I hope this helps.

Answer 4

I'd really like to know what makes the non-religious thing the religious DON'T think? I mean common sense would tell you we have much more to think about. We believe we have eternal consequences for what we do or say, either good or bad. Our minds are open to the unseen, miracles, prayer etc...We tend to try to imagine "The Big Picture" how one thing we do may effect the next... really, since we use the spiritual side of our brains and you don't, we have more to worry about with our brains than you do.

Answer 5

I'm assuming you mean metaphorically. Religious life has nothing to do with your atrium or ventricles, except insofar as your religious life ends when your heart stops. You are actually talking about the limbic components of your brain (assocaited with emotion), rather than the parietal lobes and prefrontal cortex(associated with abstract thought and reason).

In this way, you are entirely correct. A congregation of people with full frontal lobotomies would be any pastor's wet dream.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The heart is the center of our emotions.
The brain tells your figurative heart what is right and wrong from the knowledge you store up there.
Both work together...make sure you have the correct knowledge of what ever...since you are in the religious section, "Make sure of all things and hold on to what is fine".1 Thessalonians 5:21.

Answer 8

Wrong. Your brain is where thoughts are processed so it is very important to continue to keep Godly thoughts in your mind so you do not leave it open to trouble. I also think it is healthy for your brain and your religion to openly debate your side of things with people or to do bible study so that you can use your mind to try to help someone else understand the word. You should have Jesus in your heart and your religion and beliefs in your brain as a sheild from those who would try to make you falter with lies and deceit.

Answer 9

Wrong.

You need your brain to discern truth from B.S.

Stupidity and religion is a dangerous combination.

Answer 10

Lol, right. Religion is based on faith not fact so Christians may as well fry their brains with drugs and alcohol.