2006-12-10 09:43:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
...but is it the religious or the irreligious whose sanity is in question?
2006-12-10 11:47:06 · answer #1 · answered by Jens Q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question! Sanity is ultimately a comparison with what is considered normal. Since most religious people consider themselves normal and most societies are predominantly religious then it cannot be a suspension of sanity.
I don't personally believe in GOD because I don't see any evidence of judgement from an omnipitant being. From what I can see things just happen - to everything - It's only the fact that we put ourselves above everything on earth that these things appear more important than they actually are.
Logically the question seems to be more like - Do you believe in GOD ... Am I right?
2006-12-10 17:57:51 · answer #2 · answered by interested_party 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False religion indeed does. There are truths in every endeavor of life, & so too there are falsehoods. So if you are targetting all religion and focusing on that premise alone, then you would have to ask does science, education, mathamatics, history,philosophy, family , friendship,sports.....require a suspension of sanity?
It has been said 'that science without religion is as bad as religion without science'
2006-12-10 17:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life requires a suspension of sanity. Hence religion often appears to offer a solution! :-)
2006-12-10 17:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by keith 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it must do. Especially if you take into consideration what the adoption of a religion involves in terms of relinquishing control or responsibility to the power of 'God's will'. It stops people from facing the realities of life (especially the unpleasant ones, bereavement, natural disasters etc) which are much more easily dealt with in the context of such events being for a Divine (yet unrevealed) purpose.
It's almost fatalism and creates a lack of situational 'ownership'. I'd actually go as far as to say that it's possible to draw parallels between the state of mind of a religious person and the state of mind (and lack of culpability) which needs to been proved when entering a legal plea of 'temporary insanity'!
2006-12-10 19:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mark E 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Romans 10
2006-12-10 17:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not always. Buddhism is classed as a religion but does not have a god so its more of a philosophy for life really. As a buddhist I guess I can say you don't always have to suspend your sanity
2006-12-10 19:42:23 · answer #7 · answered by la.bruja0805 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Count Dracu got a very bad rap. It seems he got wrongly indentified with Vlad by devils. Dracu habited kissing friends on the neck, a chaste salute. Slanderers have tried with some success to malign others so.
2006-12-10 17:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is the acquisition of sanity. The Holy Spirit gives us a renewed mind, deals with our anxieties. gives us confidence in life, and allows us to live life to the full.
2006-12-11 01:40:22 · answer #9 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Exactly. Faith is a deliberate denial of logic, and as such is the ultimate evil: the ability to use logic is the distinuishing characteristic of H. sapiens, and what could be worse than to deliberately give up the only thing that makes one human?
2006-12-10 17:46:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-10 17:45:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋