Why is this religious belief so firmly ingrained in various components of our society? In twelve-step meetings, AA meetings, AA consoles the victim of alcoholism with a spiritual pat on the back and instructions to turn to God for relief from the disease. Likewise common wisdom assigns many philosophical and moral questions that occur to humans godly justice as an answer. Yet it is clear to many thinking men and women that the idea of God no longer serves a useful purpose. What is the ordinary fellow in the twenty-first century to say in response?
2006-12-13 14:33:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Although I do believe in a higher power of some sort, I don't believe that any Human has ever gotten it right. My major problem is that all of the Occidental Religions(Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are based or stem from the Hebrew Religion, which was written 5000 years ago, and people of that time thought the Earth was flat, and that the Universe revolved around the Earth, so right from the beginning, they are based on faulty or a complete absence of science. They are also faith based, and they don't support any argument against them, saying that you are supposed to believe as fact absolutes that are quite frankly wrong, in my opinion. Finally, I look around the world and see all the Evil that is perpetrated in the names of these various religions, and can't possibly believe that the God that they describe would allow such things to occur, especially in "His" name.
2006-12-13 14:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Crowfeather 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I am one of the apparent few who agree with you. I think the main reason people continue to believe in God is that it is very emotionally comforting. People need to feel there is something they can understand controlling the things in the world that they cannot understand.
And really, to believe in something like the Big Bang, for most of us, does require faith in science. I can't explain and really understand the Big Bang but I do have faith and trust in people who really do get it. I have seen too many things explained too much better by science than by religion to not believe in science!
I mean really, who could believe in a great flood when you stop to realize that the Nile river used to flood fairly regularly at a depth of over 70 feet? I can just here the conversation that started the Noah story. "This? This isn't a flood sonny! Why back when I was a kid the water rose to 200 feet deep! And before that there was such a storm as it lasted 40 days and covered the whole earth. This thing we've got here is just a little puddle."
Now that is so much easier to believe. I've got a million of them.
2006-12-13 19:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by Avalon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I can't directly answer your question, I have a thought.
How could one prove that something, anything at all, doesn't exist? If it's not here, it could be somewhere else, and one individual cannot be everywhere at one time.
Some think that the idea of God no longer serves a purpose? I haven't heard that one yet.
2006-12-13 14:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say much, besides my faith in the Bible. That it exists. That 69 books about the same person couldnt have possibly been written over that long a period of time by that many different people. not everyone will believe... we all just try.
2006-12-13 14:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by Missy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These clear thinking men and woman would not contain any of the leaders of the free world, nor would it include the highest I.Q. known to man. (Marilyn St. Laurent), Nor would it include any past or present president of the united states. They, like me, have and do find a purpose for God.
2006-12-13 14:46:05 · answer #5 · answered by hydroslug 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋