2006-10-29 06:13:41 · 18 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"The Emperors New Clothes" is a story about a couple of conmen who say they can weave the most beautifully fine cloth to make an outfit for the Emperor, only wise people can see this cloth they tell the Emperor but fools cannot see it at all. Eventually the emperor processes through the town in his fine new expensive raiment and everyone gasps at the quality and beauty of the new clothes but a little boy , an innocent child cries out, "The Emperor is wearing no clothes"...still the procession must continue.
2006-10-29 06:22:37 · update #1
You theists really twist stuff to fit your world-view don't you though, if it's logic subvert it, if it's science subvert it to your own ends.
2006-10-30 06:46:36 · update #2
If the Emperor has no clothes on ,you can see he is naked .
The Fool believes there is a god that can`t be seen .....
His thinking is delusional.
2006-10-29 06:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people around the emperor were pretending that he had a new suit of clothes in order to humor him and puff up his personal vanity (pride, self-importance, and so forth). The people who humored the emperor were doing thus so that they may themselves receive certain favors. It was all a big con so that no one had to say the truth: that the emperor was a man who was given status and power by other people, and that there was no authority anywhere in sight except for the perceptions and misguided beliefs of a bunch of scared and self-centered children acting like adults in the realms of politics, personal benefit, and so forth.
The one who believes that there is no God believes that humankind is all there is--and as a rule believes, to one extent or another, the great lie: that humans are of the ultimate importance. This fundamental lie, if believed, leads people to do, say, and be things that are worthless, because they are feeding their own or others' misguided sense of self-worth, which is vain.
The child in the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is the one to point out that the emperor is in his underwear. The child has nothing to lose or gain--no political power, no favors from the emperor...and he has no sense yet of being socially outcast because he doesn't believe the illusion that other people have created and upheld. That is, the child can see plainly and speak plainly, because he is not afraid of any earthly consequences of seeing plainly and speaking plainly. And he has said the truth that was in everyone's minds but on no one's lips, because all of the people, including the emperor, were cowards. Because to utter the simple and basic fact of things would be to cause the whole structure of illusion of self-worth to come crashing down on everyone's heads, they thought. And where would they be then?
The great lie is that people are something on their own power, and are worth something on their own merit.
The great truth is that people are given gifts of God's power when they seek his will for their lives, and they become worth something in eternity, apart from their bones and flesh, and transient, vain whims, temporal pursuits, and empty desires.
2006-10-29 14:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The king was the fool he was the only one that thought he was wearing clothes,only a child had the nerve to say so.
God is king he's no fool,only people that can't feel in their hearts that he's real and have faith in the truth that judgment is coming,these are the fools.You must come to God as a child would,with out Bias,just as the boy in the story spoke out of innocence.
2006-10-29 14:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a lot of difference
there is no god, is what a fool says constantly and is kidding himself
just like the people who said the emperor had clothes on...when infact he didnt.
therefore...the people who think theres no god and the people who think the emperor is still clothed are fools in the utter sense
peace ^^
2006-10-29 14:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The fool speaks only of what he can see. Beliefs can't be seen, so even though it is true that the emperor was naked, it is not necesarily true that god isn't there
2006-10-29 14:22:23 · answer #5 · answered by Chipper 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
once one gets past public peer pressure, the emporer's state of dress can be imperically observed and documented using a variety of sources.
no one can prove or disprove there is a god; one can only critique and debate those who claim to have an exclusive interpretation.
2006-10-29 14:16:14 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not the same... the emporer is naked
the fool saying "there is no God" is wrong and out of line with reality
the person saying the "evolutionary theory' emperorer has no clothes is right, it rests more on phillosphical assumptions than inductive logic... the emporer is naked and saying so is consistent with reality
2006-10-29 14:19:23 · answer #7 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You cannot prove that a God exists. The emperor, well just look and see.
2006-10-29 14:19:18 · answer #8 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Explain...
This sounds like a story I heard...but I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about.
2006-10-29 14:16:11 · answer #9 · answered by BekaJoy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which God?
2006-10-29 14:16:40 · answer #10 · answered by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋