Four billion non-Christians would be happy to confirm for you that the Christian story is imaginary. However, if you are a practicing Christian, you can probably feel your "religious mind" overriding both your rational mind and your common sense as we speak. Why? Why were you able to use your common sense to so easily reject the Santa story, the Mormon story and the Muslim story, but when it comes to the Christian story, which is just as imaginary, you are not?
Therefore, the question I would ask you to consider right now is simple: Why is it that human beings can detect fairy tales with complete certainty when those fairy tales come from other faiths, but they cannot detect the fairy tales that underpin their own faith? Why do they believe their chosen fairy tale with unrelenting passion and reject the others as nonsense?
2006-12-02 08:00:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
its brainwashing.
They're brainwashed to accept one set of stories (no matter how ridiculous they are)
and brainwashed to reject all other stories (regardless of how similar they are to the ones which they have accepted).
Look at the answer above mine to see the irrational results which can be produced by this brainwashing.
2006-12-02 08:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you believe Christianity is a fairy tale, why not argue about Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk? Why is Christianity so much more important for you to argue about if you believe it's worth just as much as fairy tales? Obviously there's something about Christianity that you find it important enough to argue about.
2006-12-02 16:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by bachlava_9 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Inside your head is a censer. It's a needed part of your mind, without it editing out input, you'd be flooded with sensory data. Try this, how much of the awareness of your butt seated on a chair were you, before I brought it to your attention? That is the censer a work.
It also has a side-effect tho. part of it is attached to your view of reality, your point of view, or as Robert Anton Wilson and others refer to it, your reality tunnel. Not only does it censer just sensory, it censer all input, even information.
The Reality Tunnel is a persons world view, self image, and filter of their sensory input. It filters all information that comes into the mind. When people select or have on inflicted on them, a Reality Tunnel, they accept all information that supports that tunnel, reject everything that doesn't, and any and all information is also filtered and colored by that tunnel.
Don't be fooled, everyone has a Reality Tunnel, it's what people think of as a world view, or maybe, point of view, but everyone has it...the trik is to have a tunnel that is wide enough to accept as much information without the minimum amount of discoloration.
2006-12-02 16:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human brain doesn't seek the provable or evidenced answers, it simply seeks an answer good enough to get by in daily surival. If you are surrounded by a society that beleives in flying elephants, you will likely support that belief without evidence simply and subconsciously because it helps you get along with everyone else.
2006-12-02 16:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by One & only bob 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple. It is because I CAN separate fantasy from reality. The reality is that Christianity is the only religion where God is giving salvation freely, without works, by grace through faith. ALL other religion is man's attempt to reach God - by doing good works, or praying or living a good life. There is a difference. The difference is Jesus - and the empty tomb.
2006-12-02 16:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said.
Mt 7:13-15
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
2006-12-02 22:03:44 · answer #6 · answered by kirstycristy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It requires insight to examine your own views dispassionately and objectively and insight isn't a virtue that you develop if you've spent your whole life being spoonfed a lot of theological propaganda.
2006-12-02 16:05:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Simple : it works for me.
2006-12-02 16:08:04 · answer #8 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh?
2006-12-02 16:02:34 · answer #9 · answered by sheeny 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I dont know the answer.
2006-12-02 16:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by Mayonaise 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋