Seems to the logical person that all faiths have a hold on their followers during the life of the human animal by having this incredibly massive threat over them of a good afterlife or a bad afterlife if they dare question the unprovable (and ridiculous).
Why waste a life by being scared of being placed in the wrong part of the afterlife - which wont happen anyway because there is no afterlife (except in the bible/other novel(s) of course. ?????
2006-10-12 21:44:13 · 28 answers · asked by Jon H 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Part of an answer...... ""When it comes to the afterlife, we'll probably both be surprised. I hope your surprise doesn't prove too warm for you. "".
So, does that make a believer not only scared to question - but also ready willing and able to overtly proclaim the threat to those that have concluded something from fact ?.
PS. My partner is deeply religous and I dont try to 'unconvert' her, and she doesnt try to 'convert' me. If believing an old storybook is your thing then thats fine. All I'm doing is asking questions that some people jump to the wrong conclusions over, maybe due to uncertaintities in there own minds ?. Who knows.............
2006-10-13 00:58:17 · update #1
"Why waste a life"
You do not know anything about my life, most would find it appealing.
Why is it important to you what we do? Are you lonely?
2006-10-12 21:49:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think to believe you have to justify to yourself a lot of contradictions, they manage fine. I don't think they are scared although they scare the shi t outta me. I live with a conscience, put there by Catholic schooling, however I am to burn in hell, even though I pray every night, be nice to people, would die for the children in my charge and give to charity. I'm a puff, oh well never mind always was a bit of a pyro. Anyway maybe God will be pissed off at all those people that wasted their lives not practising what they preach. At least i am honest and good
2006-10-12 21:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by Powerpuffgeezer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where were you before your birth?
Where your deceased ancestors are after their death?
if there is no accountablity afterwards then why don't I do everything that I want to do in this world.
I want to kill people, snatch money from the poor and let them die out of hunger. If I do all these then where is the justice.
Logics are not applicable everywhere, this is man made philosiphy. We try to put every justification of our wrong doings but actually we dont' understand unless we come across the experience.
The life is not so easy my friend. We have to be accountable for all our doings, good or bad after death. Be prepared for that.
2006-10-13 00:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by A muslim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not scared to question anything. However, we are also not scared to trust in something (Someone) we do not understand.
How do you convince a child to wear a seatbelt? You cannot prove it will save their life, you cannot predict whether you will have a crash or not. You believe that your child will be safe in a seatbelt without any proof.
When you buy food, you have no proof that it has not been poisoned. Do you question anyone about the things you buy?
What about medicines. Do you have faith that your Doctor and Pharmacist are giving you stuff that is not dangerous? Are you scared to question what you do not understand?
Sometimes you have to have faith in something. You have to accept it as true without any kind of proof. Otherwise you would be paranoid.
2006-10-12 23:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I wasn't raised to believe any of that, it was only after I met Jesus (and yes that really happened, it was a real experience) that I realised I'd had my eyes shut to the truth. Read about Paul/saul on the road to Damascus, it was a bit like that, the scales fell from my eyes. Or liken it to Neo in The Matrix waking up in the real world and realising his whole perception of life had been a lie. That's what happened, so I believe in the Bible.
Nobody can 'intellectually' convince anyone to become a (true) christian, it has to happen by revelation from god.
2006-10-12 23:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by good tree 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont know about any other 'religious' people, but i am certainly not afraid to question what i cant prove. studying a science at university means i face this a fair bit, but it doesnt make any less of a christian.
as for this whole afterlife business - christians arent scared at all, because they know they wont end up in 'the wrong part'. its just others who need to be worrying :)
2006-10-12 23:28:58 · answer #6 · answered by clairelouise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The right word to describe afterlife here is goals of our lives. Being happily in heaven motivates us to be human with good heart while hell promised a torture punishment if we have done sins. Of course nobody includes a religious people can prove the existence of afterlife, they aren't scared with your question buddy... I think they might praying to God to bless an insane person like you!
2006-10-12 21:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by lilbabylin 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's a question to get answered on the internet.
Basically, you are confusing the realms of religious faith, with scientific proof. They don't really mix. Of course religious people can't prove everything they believe: that is why they have faith. The foremost source for this is obviously The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Incidentally, I'm on the side of proof: I'm an atheist.
2006-10-12 21:48:27 · answer #8 · answered by hallam_blue 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
have you considered the possibility that some people can percieve more than you can, and their belief is based on personal experiences?
remember that to a village of people who were born blind, color would be an absurd idea, just as much so that the metaphysical is to you.
I know for a fact, that is, with as much, or more certainty as I have that I exist, that gravity exists, that souls and the afterlife are real, because I've personally experienced and observed such to exist, just as I have personally experienced gravity to exist. kthe fact that I cannot prove it to you, does not change the reality of it any more than the fact I could not prove color to someone who was born blind.
2006-10-12 21:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a general rule, religious people are delighted to answer questions. We only get scared when the questions are obviously loaded to try to induce doubt.
You live your life as you wish to live it, I'll live mine the way I choose. When it comes to the afterlife, we'll probably both be surprised. I hope your surprise doesn't prove too warm for you.
2006-10-12 21:50:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They must be like me asking and answering to myself knowing answering but have no one to listen due to the fear of repraisals they have developed their faiths into this dectates them to take the oath of silence as an excuse as they cannot burden the consequece of the belief they indulged into became a farce in not attaining the reality of the efforts to find the real thing they forgot that the faith they were looking for was in them and did not need any expouyser but their own honesty rather than imposing honesty as this is an ingriedent given to us in birth.
2006-10-12 21:55:26 · answer #11 · answered by SAMARENDRA D 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋