It was a hypothetical question that i thought took some thought and imagination but i found that religious people have no imagination. Only the atheists were able to think through it and even comprehend were i was coming from. My question is do believers have less imagination on the subject of God than non-believers?
2006-10-21 12:32:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is my next question not my last question for those of you who care.
2006-10-21 12:32:54 · update #1
Sigh.....................................................More hypocritical behavior. i am a believe and i use my imagination. I do not follow blinded the words of men that tell me how too believe in God. It will be the quality of imagination that will in the end save us from the false prophets. If you cannot question your faith then the false ones will use it against you. Think....dont...follow blindly.
2006-10-21 13:30:33 · update #2
Believers do not make things up about God. The character of God can be found in His word, the bible. Most people, in asking about God, get upset when answers come from the bible. I find this rather ironic. It's like taking your car to a car wash, and then pitching a fit when someone tries to wash it. Don't ask a question and be surprised when all the answers....from those who know God....come from scripture!
2006-10-21 12:52:03 · answer #1 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't have to do with being a believer or not, it has to do with being a fundamentalist or not. Literal thinkers by definition have less imagination. One of the traps that believers of any sort can get into, is putting limits on God. It is very human to try to define God in ways that we very small creatures can understand. God is so far beyond us, so infinate, that God defies definition, is beyond description except in the metaphorical sense. We can only say God is like...not God is...., because as soon as we insert the word after is, we have limited God to our understanding of what that word means. So a real believer, to truly understand God as well as a human being can, has to use a lot of imagination to break through preconceptions and cultural stereotypes to even begin to have an inkling of the infinate love, power, and creativity of God. I find that many of the people answering questions like this are either literal thinkers, or haven't been exposed to a deeper understanding of the nature of God, and naturally dismiss the shallow, meaningless "old man in the sky" image. If that were all I'd ever been exposed to, I would dismiss the notion of God, too.
2006-10-21 19:54:36 · answer #2 · answered by atbremser 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blind faith in anything, is the beginning of intolerance, and the ending of actual thinking. The less that one belives in, then the more active thinking that can be accomplished, or, on the flip side, being able to change a belief, is also keeping flexibility in thinking.
The main way to freedom of thought, is in allowing yourself to either not believe in anything, or to belive firmly in something, only as long as you need, and then once again abandoning the belief.
This is one of the main tenets of Chaos Magick, that it is strong on practicalities, but leaves the actual use of metaphysics up to the practitioner. To the Chaos mage, the only thing of import is this, that the will of the mage can force change on the universe. That is the whole cake, everything else is just icing on the cake.
The practitioner is now free to use any system that appeals, and discard any system just as quickly, Golden Dawn hermeticism, Cthulu pathworkings, Tarot, Pendulum. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. a quote attributed to Hassan I Sabbah, creator of the Assassins Guild, but more than likely, written by anyone else, and just attributed to a historical personage.
This is similar to discordianism, or even the church of the subgenius. All attemping to get accross one point. Any value in anything is placed there by the person performing the observation.
Whether or not Deity exists is not a relevant question, just, is there a belief in that deity.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
Everything is Mara.
2006-10-21 19:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh...
YES! Yes you did just ask a question about God.
If the other thing is also a question, I would have to say that people who tend to get all of their answers from a book are less imaginative than people who look for answers in life and inside themselves. But imagination can be responsible for insanity as easily as it can bring creative thought. It was an act of imagination that led one man to say that his dog told him to rape and kill and another act of imagination that led another man to write The Divine Comedy. There was some other thing that made the difference between these two men.
2006-10-21 19:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagination is what got the people of Israel in trouble at the foot of the Mount of God. They imagined that God was actually a calf. God asked them; What did you see in the fire? What did you see in the smoke? What imagination has so corrupted you that you would fall into idolatry.
The calf was God, an imagination gone wild. I guess they had a hard time sculpting gold into a flaming pillar and a pillar of smoke.
Imagine what The LORD looked like... Do you see him when you pray? Do you see the Father? What does the spirit look like? Do the look like DaVinci's paintings? How about like Michelangelo's Piata? Did a dead Messiah really look like that?
Sheez.
2006-10-21 19:38:23 · answer #5 · answered by Bimpster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what your hypothetical question was, but I'm hoping it was better than this one. If this is your idea of a thoughtful and imaginative question, and you're atheist, then it seems apparent that nonbelievers don't have much in the imagination department at all.
2006-10-21 19:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't think that believers have less of an imagination than Non-believers because we are still trying to know God, We know God is mysterious, and we try to uncover that, so that also takes creativity.
2006-10-21 19:36:03 · answer #7 · answered by Nyltza M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
GOD BLESS
2006-10-21 19:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious nutters don't think about anything and if something that questions their little fantasy comes up they have a bad habit of ignoring it, or insulting you and something complete irrelevant (like if you ask them something and they come back with something random and factually inaccurate like "evolution can't be true because I'm not a monkey") They are just too stupid to understand. Say no to jesus
2006-10-21 19:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Say No To jesus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there are imaginative people who believe and who do not. I don't think your faith has any thing to do with your imagination. Unless you are so narrow minded that you are unwilling to stretch your imagination.
2006-10-21 19:36:45 · answer #10 · answered by Suspended 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋