For all of you who think Religion is for the weak?

Question

What about those on flight 93 who's last phone call was a prayer?
What about the last prayers of many of the victims in the towers?
Do you think they were weak?
Just wondering.

For those of you who say praying didn't work, maybe they were praying for their families. How selfish can you be?????

Answer 1

This group of answers needs some positive reinforcement. And being a wishful thinker, I'm loaded with positive reinforcement.

Religion is for the Enlightened . Not the weak.

Weak people aren't strong enough to believe in anything without a USDA Stamp of Approval . That's not strong.

Strength comes from within your very soul. You can choose to use it or you can choose to lose it.

Strength is also the ability to 'take all the abuse that comes your way'.. .. . .... . . ..And still Stand strong on your beliefs, regardless of whatever others say.

Thank you and God Bless.

Answer 2

Amongst so many haters and non believers, I think it takes a lot of STRENGTH to believe and say you believe. Many people pre judge me. They look at me and have a hard time believing I am a Christian. I could be weak and say I'm not but I need to stay strong as I want to be right in God's eyes a lot more than in a person's eyes. I don't think I'm weak at all and I surely don't believe that those poor people praying in the towers were weak either. The scriptures even tell me I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.

Answer 3

You will never feel more alive as when you are closest to death. Ask anyone that's ever been in combat. When I was in Vietnam I got an attitude that death was always beside me and could take me any time. One gets used to that environment and learns to accept death. Personally I believe in another level of life after death and I no longer fear it. As far as flight 93, Todd Beamer and the others that gave their lives that day realized they were going to die but had the balls to thwart the terrorists from accomplishing their mission. Personally, I think the targets were either the White House or the Capital. Either way, loss of life was reduced by the passengers actions.

Answer 4

Religion is definitely not for the weak, but I think the examples you give have nothing to do with it. As a previous answerer said, death does indeed do some strange things to people, and at any rate, there is certain comfort to be found in prayer. It is not necessarily that they were strong because they prayed right before they died; they may have been very strong people their entire lives, or they may in fact have been weak, but none of us has any way of determining that unless we knew them personally. I think you are exploiting the tragedies of 9/11 to promote a skewed version of religion.

Religion can be for the weak, if it's not used properly. That is, any fool who doesn't bother to think for him or herself can swallow a bookful of doctrines, and say a couple of prayers. So what, though? If that's all their religion is, then it is in that essence that it is the opiate of the masses, because people absolutely must think and have faith to have real religion.

That said, proper religion is not for the weak at all. It is very hard to admit to oneself that you know very little if anything, that you are not always right, that there are greater things than yourself, et cetera, and very hard to ask oneself the great questions of life/philosophy. It is hard to suffer and it is hard to always try to do the right thing. It is hard to surrender oneself to the Truth. So in that sense, religion is not at all for the weak.

Answer 5

Can I remind you of the reason for the men taking the plane over in the first place?
Also, what does that have anything to do with religion being for the weak? I don't think that religion had anything to do with their strength and courage. They were strong because they wanted to live, not because they were praying.

Answer 6

I personally think that it takes strength to make a choice for yourself that might make you seem like a *gasp* individual in this society.Here is a better question,"Would I be less weak minded if I gave up and just went with what everyone else thinks?Would I be less weak minded if I let atheists make the decision for me?"
hmmmmm

Answer 7

All atheists don't think religion is "for the weak." Generalizations like that are just silly. You don't think "all atheists" are rebellious teenagers, do you?

I think christianity has a lot going for it: a strong moral code, a social network that would be very comforting, the belief that the god who created all is deeply interested in you, that you have a plan for your life, that when your loved ones die you get to see them again and that when YOU die it's not really the end.

These are all perfectly good reasons to become a christian. They are some of the reasons that kept me a christian for a long time and they don't really have to do with "weakness".

Answer 8

Religion? It is not religion that is weak. It is people who rely on blind faith, people who use blind faith as a crutch - it is them who are weak. The weak ones are those who need to believe in superstitious miracles and 2000 year old fairy tales in order to have purpose in their lives.

I'm no Atheist, but I'd like to point out that you would need a lot of courage to be an Atheist. Atheist don't believe in an afterlife and are stigmatized by society - people who join organized religions in order to "fit in" demonstrates true weakness.

Answer 9

No. They were helpless. i remember being on a plane that was acting erratically. I am not religious, but for lack of anything better to do, I suddenly remembered every word of the Act of Contrition. Catholics know about that prayer. Luckily, nothing happened, but I am sure the people who started praying right before imminent death had the same psychological mechanism occur.

Answer 10

I'd like to know what the weak have in difficult times. And especially in times of being worried. And np, those people weren't weak, but corageous.