2006-12-23 09:28:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Peter D--sorry to let you down but I do not drink nor do I use drugs.
2006-12-23 09:36:51 · update #1
It didn't. From a logic and science perspective, the verdict has been in for a long time.
People, however, who give religious sects their power by 'belonging' to and supporting a particular group, can be extremely irrational creatures. Logic and science do not hold sway over emotion and fear.
Look at how long it took for the ideas that the world was round, or that the sun was at the center of our solar system rather than earth, to be accepted. Not because it didn't make sense, or because it would change the day to day realities of most people, but because it contradicted the idea that people, and the earth, were special, chosen, and at the center of the known universe. God's universe, God's people. The idea that it might not be so was terrifying; so terrifying that people who spoke or wrote or studied such heretical ideas were silenced or killed.
Thats a pure fear response. It still exists today. Science, logic, and reason do not comfort those who need to believe they are special, protected beings, whose consciousness will survive their physical deaths. Reality may be known, but you can't force its acceptance on someone who will not believe.
2006-12-23 10:04:18 · answer #1 · answered by functionary01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when you start with "I am the One God.." as many religions do, you're bound to end up with these symptoms. It's called a tautology. Some years ago, before "Political Correctness" (not bad in the genre either) came along, ESQUIRE magazine put this in among its annual 'Dubious Achievement Awards': Best Tautology -- The Klu Klux Klan; for printing and distributing a poster which read: 'If you are White today it is because your ancestors practiced separation of the races.'
2016-05-23 02:25:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is emotion; Science is logic.
Emotional people are not able to differentiate constructive criticism from destructive criticism.
Religion for for people who do not want to think. Religion tells you the answers and expects you to blindly believe them without thinking about them.
For example. It was religious doctrine that the world is flat.
Galileo was jailed for proposing otherwise.
There are more emotional people in this world than logical.
Anyone can criticize science. You just need logical facts.
2006-12-23 09:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by bird_brain_88 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
immunity against criticism?
are you in a bubble?
seems the majority criticize religion, yet readily accept the dogma of evolution without question.
2006-12-23 09:31:38 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's really hard to criticize something that has no basis in the real world, by which I mean Faith is intangible and irrational. It's easy to make up new positions to fall back upon when your beliefs are based merely on your own assurance that you're right.
2006-12-23 09:33:02 · answer #5 · answered by anecdoteman1 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
People living under the rising sun are not affected by darkness.
2006-12-23 09:37:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It deserves every level of criticism and scrutiny. Truth stands against everything. There is a truth above everything - superior to all human intellect. If religion can't stand the criticism and scrutiny than maybe it will have to bow to truth -God.
2006-12-23 09:34:28 · answer #7 · answered by neptune 3 · 0⤊ 6⤋
WHAT?
Seems like to me that religion (all kinds) are getting criticized more than just about anything else nowadays...
2006-12-23 09:31:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Because it's been so interwoven into people's whole world view, identity, and hope, that to question it means to question one's very self and one's whole reality. THAT is incredibly scary.
2006-12-23 09:31:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
By cultivating an atmosphere of ignorance.
2006-12-23 09:30:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋