2006-10-09 04:32:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes it is. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
2006-10-09 04:38:57 · answer #1 · answered by digitalquirk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some, yes. Some religious folk blindly believe anything they're told by an authority figure. I wouldn't necessarily blame this on religion though; perhaps their upbringing or education? I know quite a few religious people who have come to their beliefs on their own from careful thought and study. Doesn't mean I agree with their conclusions mind...
2006-10-09 04:42:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's a brilliant form of human beings in this earth. With that suggested, i could ask, "Do you no longer think of a guy or woman could be a severe logician i.e. well being care expert, mathematician, logician, and so forth. and additionally be a believer in God?" nicely, there are. I constantly pay attention lawsuits from non believers approximately how following God or a God thoroughly seems virtually robotic, besides the indisputable fact that it is you who it may look could like a number of to lose their very own identities. i've got self belief sorry on your suited international.
2016-10-16 00:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think I'm "religious" b/c I'm a born-again Christian, then I'd say you're wrong. I have a relationship, not a religion. And thank you for your narrow-mindedness, but I am quite skilled at critical thinking. Are you?
2006-10-09 04:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by peachy78 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, teaching a pig to sing might be possible.
2006-10-09 04:35:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If by critical thinking, you mean simply asking smart-mouth questions, and then pouting when some actually gives a good answer to a stupid atheist question, then I would agree with you. Only atheists ASK stupid questions; Religious people ANSWER stupid questions.
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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....
...The very scholars who taught their students to question authority are themselves disparaged by the same measure. No one knows what to believe as true anymore; and if anything is believed, the burden of justification has been removed. Interestingly, the word university means "to bring unity in diversity," and the idea of the academy was to impart knowledge and virtue. Neither of these goals are recognizable today. The Sartrean longing to unify knowledge never materialized, and it is now a tacit assumption that the hallmark of modern education is skepticism, going back to the Cartesian model, in which the only thing one can be certain of is doubt. However, tragically unlike Descartes, there is no god to guard us against deception, and where Descartes began the modern skeptic has ended.
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)....
2006-10-09 04:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i am glad god gave us a brain to think with...
2006-10-09 04:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by 42 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-10-09 04:34:24 · answer #8 · answered by Pitambri 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋