the decline of faith?
2006-12-19 01:59:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When organized religion teaches certain "truths", and modern science finds out that these "truths" cannot be true, there is of course a danger to religion and its credibility.
2006-12-19 02:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is not declining. Your general knowledge is poor on the subject. In my field most people have a religion and software engineers are not uneducated people. Spiritual hunger cannot be satisfied with intellectual answers so education is not really relevent other than knowing the concepts of the chosen faith.
2006-12-19 10:08:45 · answer #2 · answered by Pilgrim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge should not be dangerous to religion. The thing that can make it a threat is that in order to embrace a belief system of any kind you have to have some degree of faith and people think that knowledge is better than faith. God wants us to have knowledge and wisdom but people get so caught up in gaining knowledge that they think there is a worldy answer for everything and rely on what they can learn instead of faith. You can have both and one of the most important things to learn is that you cannot learn everything and to learn how to have faith.
2006-12-19 10:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One has to wonder where you get your knowledge from. Decline in faith? Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, there is an explosion of kids and young adults turning to religion, despite (or maybe because of) the amoral culture that we get rammed down our throats every day in this increasingly hedonistic society. The amount of knowledge one has acquired has nothing to do with ones faith. I've met religious people from one end of the spectrum to the other and the same with people who are not religious. Faith is something that people who have none can't understand. One only hopes that they, too, will someday see the light.
2006-12-19 10:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by Knowitall 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is a relationship.
As we as a people get more comfortable and full of ourselves, we think we did all of this by ourselves and no longer need God.
We are wrong.
But many of the truly educated realize that we could not have created ourselves and do an honest study of Religion and find it makes sense. But most find it easier just to follow the crowd, eat cake and ignore God.
Please do not confuse education and spoiled comfort with intelligence.
If Religion was against education, why are there so many Colleges with Religious Backgrounds????
Peace!
2006-12-19 10:04:35 · answer #5 · answered by C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. However, I will admit that the more "knowledge" we gain, the more we do not see the need for God. This does not negate the existence or our need for God.
The Bible encourages knowledge and wisdom. It tells us that "wisdom is the principal thing" and that with "all our getting, get understanding." The prophet Hosea said that God's people "were destroyed for a lack of knowlege."
The problem with those who are knowledgable is that they do not have wisdom. You can have head knowledge but not use it correctly. It can also lead to biased conclusions because we think that what we know is all that needs to be known.
Atheist love to compare Christians to the ignorant and the uneducated but they are way outdated and very biased in this assumption. It is not even an argument that is really worth discussing.
2006-12-19 10:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by mark777 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Studying the bible and finding the truth in the bible, could be bad for some religions that are not teaching what they should.
Secular education can be bad if it teaches theories and philosophies of men that are not in harmony with the bible. People will tend to get proud and feel that they know more than God or that they don't need him. That's why Jesus said at Matt 11:25 " "I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to babes." It's only the meek and humble that will benefit from the bible.
2006-12-19 10:53:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a difference between education and knowledge. For example, Tim LaHaye, author of the "Left Behind" books, is probably very well educated, but he obviously has no knowledge of what the Bible really says. LaHaye is dangerous.
It depends on the type of education you receive. Those who are truly well educated and have knowledge and wisdom generally have more faith than those who are indoctrinated by the LaHayes and Falwells of the world.
2006-12-19 10:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by Stranger In The Night 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems like it's the opposite, humans exposure to education in the last hundred years is higher and religion has grown a lot.
Unbelievers have shrunk, there was a prediction by an Atheist one hundred years ago that more people would be atheist by now, but just the opposite happened.
I've even noticed more scientist are becoming religious in one extreme or another.
2006-12-19 10:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There shouldn't be, knowledge should only strengthen one's understanding and thereby increase faith. My religion, "mormon", teaches that all people should seek to be educated in all areas/topics and that learning is one of the most important things we can do. I have received a J.D. and a Masters and with increased learning my understanding and beliefs have only been cemented.
Additionally, at this point science and religion work perfectly hand-in-hand, at least in my view.
2006-12-19 10:49:23 · answer #10 · answered by straightup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Has there been a decline of faith? Since you're asking about knowledge, how do you know there's been a decline of faith?
2006-12-19 10:06:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋