dont you think that people should use their brains too instead of believing everything that a religion teaches

Answer 1

Sure. study. But, unless you have all the answers, there are some things that will require faith.

Answer 2

Certainly. Even as a child, being raised in the Jehovah's Witnesses, we were taught to question and research. Even now, having been disfellowshipped for 24 years (lived with two ladies at the same time), I still use much of what I learned from them to look up things. When I see something in the newspaper or on TV that I don't understand, I look it up. My mother does the same thing at age 80. She got her first computer just five years ago.

We learned how to look things up in the ancient Greek, and in other Bibles. Unlike other religions, every witness is taught to be a Minister and public speaker. You can't get baptized until you have had a minimum education, because after being baptized, you are a legal minister, both men and women. They have ministerial school once a week for 90 minutes, with written tests monthly. Everyone participate, even the children. At age 12, you can be assigned a 3 minute talk, to be given in front of the whole congregation. Those gradually increase in time as you gain experience, until you can give the Sunday talk or a talk at the bi-yearly circuit conference, or the yearly district conference, of which there are over 300 world wide.

Answer 3

Of course! Whether you believe in a religion or not, in order to have complete faith or complete disbelief, you have to use your brain. Believing in a religion means taking that religions teachings and thinking about them logically and accepting those beliefs. And even then, if you consider yourself a believer of this faith, you must still rationally think about what they are preaching and if you accept that or not. And more importantly, you should understand the difference between what that religion say, and what the human institutions of that religion say. Almost every religion in history has at one point had some crazy preacher telling believers to do something that had nothing to do with that religion's true beliefs. Listen, understand, and use your brain to make up your mind for yourself. Then you can believe or not.

Answer 4

This is a multi-faceted question, but I will try to limit my answer to one or two facets.

People should use their brains. As a Christian I believe in the authority of the Scriptures, but I also think we are directed to study them thoroughly and test religious ideas against them. For the most part, the Scriptures tend to be gentler than many religious leaders are in promoting religious thought.

How do we react when we are presented religious doctrine? According to what the Bible teaches us, we should test this doctrine against the Scriptures. We should not only verify that the doctrine is scriptural, we should verify the interpretation.

Is all Scripture the unfiltered word of God? I believe that it is, but I also believe that much of it requires interpretation and a great deal of study just to understand what it means.

If any person "believes everything a religion teaches" he or she would first have to know "everything a religion teaches," and few people can claim to have done that.

A true religious person never stops studying and learning from life as well as from the Word of God.

Answer 5

Absolutely! This is why I do not "listen only", but I study and find things out for myself.Many religions are lost. All religions have truth, just not the whole truth. The bible tells us that we should search for the knowledge of God, like we would for a hidden treasure. I guess you can say that I am searching. And this requires lots of digging.

Answer 6

Yes!

Religion with a strong foundation, should have no reason not to accept questions from their own followers. A religion should not condemn non-conformists for asking logical questions, if they intend to attract more followers.

Humans are naturally inquisitive...and logic is the basis that should be used, before joining any religion.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating at the Tree of Knowledge.


This shows that God wants you to go through life stupid and obeying.

Answer 8

Yep, I also believe they should use their brains instead of believing philosphy and science falsely called so.

Answer 9

Using your brain means believing that God made heaven and earth.

Anything else doesn`t make any sense.

Answer 10

This is kind of what the Pope was talking about when he got into trouble.---Faith and Reason. If the Catholic faith is understood properly it is totally reasonable.

Answer 11

Yes that is why we have the ability to reason and to exercise free will.