People around R&S always ask questions and imply that religious faith is the opium of the masses, the crutch of the weak. Why?
My faith allows me to face trouble without despair. It gives me confidence to believe that tomorrow may be a better day. It encourages me to do better for myself and meet my potential.
If a non-religious person can make the same claims...and many of them do, then how is it that I'm weaker than they are?
2006-10-23 09:14:42 · 31 answers · asked by Rabid 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edit: Leopold, I'm a Veterinarian. I am both scientific and rational, and I still believe in God. (I don't require that others believe as I do.) So trust me, I'm not a brainwashed zealot.
2006-10-23 09:23:49 · update #1
Edit: Jaycubb, the first preceding of reason is to admit it's limitations. Ever have a moment when things worked out for you, in spite of the odds against you? When statistically you should have lost? How about when one such moment leads to yet another? Also, the more I learn about medicine, the more I thought that the synchronicity of the world could not be accidental. Also, I freely admit that faith is irrational...but a purely rational world would be VERY boring.
2006-10-23 09:34:36 · update #2
Non religious types look at religious types as putting all their faith in an invisible ghost pal instead of themselves.
2006-10-23 09:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The short answer is that many people hate and attack what they don't understand. How can an unbeliever possibly know or understand how you or any person of faith feels and knows? I'm a Christian, but before I was a Christian I thought all Christians were weak minded and blindly followed the doctrines of men. Later on I started reading the bible to see what all the "fuss" was about and next thing I knew, bam, I had an epiphany. Now, I can understand and see what a person of faith feels. It's like the blinders have been lifted. God has revealed Himself and His truth to me. I know I was wrong in my thinking of Christians because God has shown me the truth. People of faith are the exact opposite of weak-willed, myth believing, fools. The truth is unbelievers are the real weak-minded fools. The differences is they are blinded and cannot see the truth because only God can reveal His truth and that only comes through faith. So when an unbeliever attacks a person of faith they are just revealing their own ignorance. They can't see this because they are blinded as we all were at some point in our lives.
2006-10-23 09:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find that it is easier to give in to selfish desires then it is not to. Jesus showed people how not to give in to selfishness and to serve God.They speak about that there isn't a God or after life as if they were there at the begining. They choice to believe in evalution as if something that adapts to a poison is evolving. They confuse the principle that if someone took too many antibiotics becomes immune to them as evalution in bacteria that becomes immune to antibioctics. The same thing as person who handles poisonous snake become immune to the venom the more the are bitten as evolution in bacteria that becomes immune to antibiotics. They have no soild proof and still believe in thoeries. Then once confronted with God judging them they turn to ideas that there isn't a God. Which(to me) shows that they would rather run away then face reallity. The knowledge that there is a God makes it harder to do the things they know are wrong. It is easier to do something behind you parent's back then to do it with God watching. They flee from the idea of forgiveness because they don't have the strength to believe they are good enough and loved enough to be forgiven by God. The Bible teaches that we are weak to sin and selfishness without the confidence of knowing that God loves us.
2006-10-23 10:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by TYRONE S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some are moderate and level-headed. Others are non-sensible, ideological, narrow-minded and literal. These are the ones using religion as a crutch. The former are the ones using faith simply as a guide. One demands a road map, while the other is content with a compass.
2006-10-23 09:18:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
However, religion hinges about the fact that someone will make your life better, when you could do that, sure I can understand forces larger than me, but your best source for hope is not a god, but the strength you have within yourself. This is what gives (some) atheists more confidence.
2006-10-23 09:19:14 · answer #5 · answered by valkyrie hero 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not the weaker one you are in fact the stronger one to hold your faith in God. The weaker is the one in a denial of God because there faith is not there simply because what they can not see God in substance, they choose not to believe in and in this they choose to ridicule those who do hold faith that is a very weak person in mind and spirit.
2006-10-23 09:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by Happy2bAlive 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i like to enable the bible talk for itself Hebrews 11:a million Now faith is being particular of what we are hoping for and particular of what we don't see. 2 Corinthians 5:7 we are residing by faith, no longer by sight. Hebrews 12:a million-3 as a result, on condition that we are surrounded by any such large cloud of witnesses, enable us to throw off each little thing that hinders and the sin that so quite entangles, and enable us to run with perseverance the race marked out for us. enable us to restoration our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the exhilaration set formerly him continued the go, scorning its shame, and sat down on the wonderful hand of the throne of God. evaluate him who continued such opposition from sinful adult males, so as which you will no longer enhance weary and lose heart. Galatians 6:9 enable us to no longer exchange into weary in doing sturdy, for on the right time we can acquire a harvest if we don't supply up. advantages upon you and this youthful guy
2016-10-16 07:43:13 · answer #7 · answered by benner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who have never met Jesus condemn Christians as weak. Those who have met Him and know that He never lies and tries to deceive them, that He only wants the best for them. Christians have the knowledge and peace and this really bugs non-believers. This world is going to hell and still Christians can smile about troubles. Naturally, non-believers think we are weak and they also think we are nuts but they keep trying to get into the funny farm.
2006-10-23 09:32:05 · answer #8 · answered by martha d 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
on the contrary. It takes a strong person to admit submission to his creator and a weak person to deny such truth. Believing and putting your trust in GOD takes strength because you let go of your own fate and you leave it in the hands of GOD. therefore you have strengths by having trust, sumbission(FULL) and belief that GOD can do better for you than if you tried to accomplish things on your own. People don't realize that HE wrote the book and HE's in control not us. Weakness can spill over into false arrogance.
2006-10-23 09:19:25 · answer #9 · answered by mimi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe faith in God suggests a strong-willed person, but a weak-minded and fearful one also.
In other words: If you rely on faith to allow you to face trouble and give you reason for optimism, than you are weak-minded to not be able to feel these things on your own. I say you are strong-willed because it would likely be very difficult to sway you of your beliefs.
...with all due respect of course.
2006-10-23 09:18:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are weak believers and weak non-believers. I (as an atheist) have never condemned or approved of anybody just based on that one parameter.
If a person has a mind and uses it, if they are intelligent and thoughtful, if they are good and kind, if they accept their own failures and the failures of others and if they accept that we are all imperfect and just trying are best and may choose different paths up the mountain -
Then, no problem, babe!!!
A
2006-10-23 09:18:45 · answer #11 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋