2006-09-28 07:55:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because religious peoples lives have so little meaning,they NEED to believe in something.
2006-09-28 08:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by oneidmnstr 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What is a "happy life"? I strongly doubt "billions of people" have lived an entirely happy life, and clearly billions of people still live a life in deep suffering, whether religious or not (and most people sometimes meet illness, death, suffering of old age and other things). If someone thinks he lives a life fully without suffering, I would suspect it is because he's blind for the reality and sure without a hint of compassion for other peoples' suffering ...
In the end, I think that doesn't help him to lasting happiness.
2006-09-28 08:14:51 · answer #2 · answered by juexue 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can you explain how billions live a happy life WITH religion?
You go first.
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Ravi Zacharias
Excerpts from: Can Man Live Without God
"We have educated ourselves into imbecility," quipped the noted English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, as he bemoaned the many nefarious ideas that are shaping modern beliefs. Venting an identical disillusionment in his commentary on the American culture, George Will averred that there is nothing so vulgar left in our experience for which we cannot transport some professor from somewhere to justify it....
...Such machinations which combine linguistic trickery and the distortion of truth are familiar fare in law courts, bringing about the desired end of an utterly confused juror. And this, may I suggest, has been the precise approach taken in the battle of ideas that has occupied center stage for centuries. The road from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment, right down to our postmodern deconstructionist worldview, was predictable. All through those centuries warnings were sounded that if indeed man was the measure of all things, someone had to determine "which man." Was it going to be Hitler or Hugh Hefner, Stalin or Mother Teresa?....
...Many years ago author Paul Scherer alerted us to this downward slide. Referring to the volatile exchanges between the Church and its detractors he said:
"One by one the generation that refused to be bound by the Pope, and refused to be bound by the church, decided in an ecstasy of freedom that they would not be bound by anything, not by the Bible, not by conscience, not by God Himself. From believing too much that never did have to be believed, they took to believing so little that for countless thousands human existence and the world itself no longer seemed to make any sense. Poets began talking about the `wasteland,' with ghostly lives,' as Stephen Spender put it, `moving among fragmentary ruins which have lost their significance.' Nothingness became a subject of conversation, nihilism a motive, frustration and despair a theme for novelists and dramatists, and the `edge of the abyss' as much of a nautical term among the intelligentsia as it was for explorers in the days of Columbus!" (Paul Scherer, "The World God Sent", Harper & Row, 1965, p. 11).
2006-09-28 16:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is previous faith! some segregated followers are nonetheless to narrow minded to be certain that the God of each and every little thing that they worship is a similar God of each and every little thing that different religions worship. ameliorations stem from language and way of existence. people would desire to provide up all judgments. the final non secular Masters that ever lived all taught a similar issues, only in distinctive techniques. Lord Buddha's teachings are extraordinarily equivalent to Lord Jesus' teachings. They the two taught teachings of non secular fact, they weren't the founders of tangible international religions. They have been coaching in regards to the dominion of Heaven, and Lotus Land, which signify a similar component. we are non secular beings, not actual.
2016-10-18 03:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by haan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you explain how billions of have lived happy lives with religion?
Bet you can't!
2006-09-28 08:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who cares? What matters to me is whether religion is true or not. If it's just opiate for the masses to make them feel better about being raped and pillaged by their overlords, I'm not interested. I'd rather stay angry and change things than be happy with injustice or a fraud.
Besides, the Easter Bunny will not waste his chocolate eggs on those who love caramel. Sorry. Just saw the post below and I feel I have to mock mindless medieval superstitition wherever it rears it's empty head.
2006-09-28 07:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't seem that happy. You're just trying to start arguments with people.
Billions of people have been happy with religion too, if they weren't they'd quit. Sorry if you had a bad expirence. Quit feeling sorry for yourself, read C.S. Lewis, and get on with your life.
2006-09-28 08:01:51 · answer #7 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How many "billions" have personally told you that they are happy? How long was the line, and how long did it take?
2006-09-28 08:02:25 · answer #8 · answered by Grandma Susie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good one james.........
Can you explain the question?
I am not entirely versed on billions of people with happy lives.
How did this number come up?
2006-09-28 08:00:57 · answer #9 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can live a happy life without religion also. My concern is if I can life an eternal life without it.....I don't think so.
2006-09-28 08:01:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Enemy (Satan) isn't going to waste his limited resources against someone that he doesn't perceive to be a threat to the kingdom of darkness.
Just read the edited post above - Proverbs has a word for mockers.
But my word for you is may God soften your heart for all people and open your eyes to the truth. Blessings on you!
2006-09-28 07:59:34 · answer #11 · answered by WindWalker10 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋