2006-11-10 09:34:54 · 12 answers · asked by The Chaos Within 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope.
Keep asking the same question, keep getting the same answers. Don't do any searching for God on your own. Just continue looking down your nose at others whom you think are less fortunate, less intelligent, and less sage than you are. If you chronically need to feel superior to someone--which you do, since you chronically seek to allege your own intellectual superiority over people of faith--then you are petty, empty, blinded, and sad.
God can fix you, if you seek him.
2006-11-10 09:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it is not. In fact a life is best led when a person has faith backed up by the products of reason & critical thinking. Blind faith (faith with no basis in reasoning or logical thinking) is what I think you refer to, and I believe that blind faith is a very dangerous thing indeed.
2006-11-10 17:38:57 · answer #2 · answered by kristalshyt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Some of the greatest thinkers and scientists throughout history have been Christians. Read Blaise Pascal or Isaac Newton - they both wrote more on "religion" than they did on science. All of the Ivy League Schools were founded by Christians. Jonathan Edwards was the first President of Princeton. Read some of his work and see if his faith interfered with his "critical thinking". The greatest commandment in the Bible (according to Jesus) is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy MIND." (Matthew 22:37, emphasis added).
2006-11-10 17:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by 5solas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. In fact, every science is built on the notion of faith - faith that an idea can be proven sound. Once done, it becomes reason.
2006-11-10 17:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by Yngona D 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
BLIND faith is, yes. However, faith itself is not. Blind faith is faith without ever once questioning why you believe something. "I believe in the Bible because the Bible says to."
Faith itself can go hand in hand with reason. "I believe in the Bible because, after having weighed all the other options, this makes the most sense to me."
2006-11-10 17:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by Esma 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. But my idea of faith is different from religion.
2006-11-10 17:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by Luken 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Read "The End of Faith." GREAT book! It argues that faith allows people to do awful things in this life for the "reward" that will come in the next life.
2006-11-10 17:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by TrainerMan 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
i hate big words lol
but if you are asking can we be religions and critical ... then personally i like to think i am both yes
2006-11-10 17:36:30 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anti thetical? I wonder how many understood, or if they knew they did not understand, EVEN BOTHERED TO CHECK IT OUT. Yes, it is the antithesis by definition.
2006-11-10 17:40:30 · answer #9 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. It is superior to both and supersedes both if one is so gifted.
2006-11-10 18:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by Tommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋