Would better education be enough?
2006-09-20 01:00:58 · 26 answers · asked by theo j 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Live and let live.
2006-09-20 01:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by Pablito 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You have assumed that this is a problem. Is there evidence of this being a problem? Given the proven relationship between religion and war and death, you may see this as a good thing. You cannot religiously offend a person who holds no religion - or frankly doesn't care. Remember that a person can be spiritual without being religious. You will never see an atheist burning an effigy or arguing for loss of life based on beliefs. Perhaps a world of atheists would be a better place?
2006-09-20 08:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Gary UK 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You are a pompous fool. My agnosticism is an enlightened choice and it is precisely the know-it-all attitude that you have that causes my aversion to organized religion.
One day I hope you grow up and realize that religion is a subjective issue, and one's personal relationship with their God isn't about right or wrong.
Even though you haven't said it, i have a sneaking suspicion that you believe that your God is the only God. It is that type of intolerance that would benefit from better education.
2006-09-20 08:15:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Peter 1:14 (Whole Chapter)
As [1 Pet 1:2] obedient children, do not [Rom 12:2; 1 Pet 4:2] be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your [Eph 4:18] ignorance,
1 Peter 2:15 (Whole Chapter)
For [1 Pet 3:17] such is the will of God that by doing right you may [1 Pet 2:12] silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Be careful not to fall into ignorance yourself, while trying to prove anothers.
2006-09-20 08:22:52 · answer #4 · answered by leftturnclyde152521 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I resent being called Ignorant . I will tell you that I have an inability to PRETEND something is real and alive if I can`t see it .
When you call other people names ,does that sound" Christian like" to you ?If you really want us to believe in YOUR GOD,show us proof.That is all we are asking .
Don`t Quote some ancient story book ,Just Show us PROOF .
But as you called me ignorant ,I feel the need to call you BLIND to the fact that you are IGNORING true and proven facts to support your Fictictiousand unproven GOD.
2006-09-20 08:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This kind of so-called 'question' disgusts me. I am disgusted by stupidity, willful ignorance and self delusion... which pretty much sums up the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam).
It disgusts me to know that three-quarters of the population of the USA is infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a bunch of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental aspects of existence and reality.
It disgusts me to know that so many people dwell in a delusional reality (per Genesis) in which a 6,000 year-old Earth is seperated from a 6,000 year-old Heaven by a solid 'firmament' structure (the sky).
I am disgusted by the fact that these people believe that they inhabit a magical universe, which they share with talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns 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 raised 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 a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
It disgusts me to know that in our society, irrational, deluded people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE such nonsense is TRUE are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
It disgusts me to know that these same people think that there is something wrong with those who DON'T believe all of this ridiculous crap.
Get a grip.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-20 08:54:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the first 3 answers said it all. Do the math (yes, that's part of a non-theist curriculum) and you will find atheists on the other side of your absurd assumption.
And by the way, don't embarrass yourself by looking up the results of studies on the "religiosity-IQ" correlation.
Education? Puleeze!
2006-09-20 08:09:17 · answer #7 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism and agnosticism aren't necessarily based on ignorance. People are free to believe or disbelieve and while I would rather they believed it isn't for me to force my views on them.
2006-09-20 08:06:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
Perhaps you can see below exactly what you believe in.
Please consider these tidbits:
Jews for Jesus = Vegetarians for Hamburgers
God? He or She?
Church? Christianity? Jesus? God? Dying?
What is the "Imacculate Conception"?
Does Imacculate Conception have anything to do with "VIRGIN BIRTH"?
Google "Imacculate Conception" and in less than a minute you will discover that the IC is NOT the "Virgin Birth".
What else do you falsely believe?
Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Can Gods die?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?
No Eternal sacrifice, big deal for a day!
If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.
If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.
If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?
If you believe this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to believe it too to validate you.
Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.
Believing and not thinking is like choosing to be lost.
P.S.
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2006-09-20 08:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry but atheists are the enlightened ones, as demonstrated by the fact that the better educated people are, the less likely they are to be religious.
As far as I'm aware there has never been, in all of human history, one single valid argument or objective fact that would lead a rational person to conclude that gods and goddesses are anything other than fictional characters.
Prove me wrong.
2006-09-20 08:02:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 2⤋
You mean the intellectuality of atheism and agnosticism.
2006-09-20 08:04:05 · answer #11 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋