It's too bad really all these people getting sucked into beleiving in something that doesn't exsist. Is there any way we can help them from their folly? No wonder they are such suckers..send me your money etc etc..anyone who beleives is so gullable.
What can those of us who know better do to help these poor saps out before they end up destitute and on the street?
2006-12-21 05:33:24 · 11 answers · asked by antennas 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you are so secure with your own belief system, why are you concerned? Why does it matter at all to you, what others think or believe.
What are you afraid of?
2006-12-21 05:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by Rowdy Yayhoot 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion is part of the human condition, and a necessary part. True, it's been horribly misused sometimes, but it is essentially a tool, and any tool can be misused. Powerful tools can be used for great good or great evil, and religion is about the most powerful tool we've ever had.
Personally, I find such blanket condemnations of religious people as given in your question to be pretty silly. I might well ask how could anyone be suckered into believing something so blatantly false as the notion that all religious people are fools dying to be parted with their money?
I have no problem with someone choosing to be unreligious, but anti-religious prejudice is like all other prejudice: a product of ignorance. Perhaps you might consider educating yourself on what religion is really about before worrying too much about educating anyone else as to its evils?
2006-12-21 14:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by lehket 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If religion were to be evalutated as a logic problem, it would point to beliving in God. Since your life is so short and insignificant without God, and actually becomes pointless unless you just love to pay taxes and go to work every morning to make ends meet... it makes sense to have hope. I am a believer and I find it joyful and challenging... I am excited about my true idenity and how it is going to manifest itself as I draw closer and closer to God. If I end up being wrong, I didn't lose anything... my life is insignificant if it is temporary. If I am right, I am right. Now, lets look at the opposite picute... if I were a non-beliver I would not care... I go to work, pay my bills/taxes... perhaps drink enough to forget my sorrows, build an empire that will not last. No one really cares... now, under these circumstances if you are wrong, not only have you wasted your time here, but you have jacked yourself in the process. When you show up to the wedding banquet but you are not wearing wedding clothes (holiness), you will be thrown outside (separation from God). The fact that you are on this website means you have a tug on your heart, you are curious and searching. The Word of God sais that if you honestly search, you will find... if you knock, the door will be opened. Spirituality (Religion) is build in... I don't think it can be wiped out untill you are in Hell, at which point not only are you with people who don't believe but you are separated from God (as you have desired to be). There you will find your dream.
2006-12-21 13:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by DoorWay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Education is the key, and I don't just mean telling them that religious is superstition. It has to include teaching them about reason and logic. They have been trained to accept what's spoon-fed them on faith. That makes them intellectually and morally lazy.
Instead, they have to be taught to think, and not to just base things on emotional appeal. You have to realize how indoctrinated they are to distrust facts and reason. That's the primary reason they attack science so often these days.
We have grown into a society that is too credulous. The mass media is partly responsible for this. Commercials have trained us to trust claims more than our own intellect. Between commercial indoctrination, political indoctrination, and religious indoctrination, we been broken down into tame sheep that will follow anybody with a charisma.
We really don't value knowledge anymore. Anyone who tries to use reason is deemed an "intellectual elite". We'd rather listen to Tyra Banks than Richard Dawkins. Even our president is an idiot.
2006-12-21 13:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have been religious from our earliest beginnings. Scientific discovery has been used for good and bad purposes. Why is it such a surprise that people would use religion the same way?
2006-12-21 13:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by pastor guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it interesting that money always seems to be the first thing that is listed when people talk about the "evils" of religion. I think you love your money too much, dude.
2006-12-21 13:53:23 · answer #6 · answered by Cylon Betty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could start by opening your mind somewhat, and instead of name calling, try just doing something good for someone else.
And, yes, why do you care what anyone but you believes?
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2006-12-21 13:42:14 · answer #7 · answered by twowords 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cure is a big hard slap. Maybe then they'll get some sense.
2006-12-21 13:37:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The cure is the Rapture - we will be out of your hair in no time!
2006-12-21 13:35:47 · answer #9 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As its not an illness, there will never be a cure.
2006-12-21 13:52:32 · answer #10 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋