Are humans with religion weak?

Question

The only thing we know for positive since time began is we live and then die.

Are those who practise and preach religion basically too scared to face the concequences of life? Are they weak? Is it in human nature to look for a main source detailing rules for living life and then of course a happy place for death.......

I dont really aspire to this and i think for my social survival i may need mental help. Not to say that im crazy but its starting to grate on me why i might get something wrong because i messed up based on past experiences and another person will just state some godly holy phrase and somehow he/she is forgiven even know there is no evidence of god,the validity of the bible and christ.

Answer 1

Of course they are. They're frightened, little people who are incapable of facing the realities of life and death. That is what religion is all about. Take away the threat of eternal punishment and the promise of "pie in the sky, by and by, when you die," and there is absolutely no reason for religions to exist.

Prayer has been proved to be a worthless exercise. "God(s)" have done, and are doing, nothing to alleviate the sufferings of man. So, religion obviously has no relevance in how one lives ones life, other than to emotional and/or intellectual cripples seeking to be rewarded for their inability to create for themselves a fulfilling, meaningful existence while they're here.

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Answer 2

*There is no evidence of god,the validity of the bible and christ.* That is why it is called faith and not science, although most people who believe see evidence of the existance of God in everything living on the earth. Why would a person with religion be weak, to accept religion is to accept you have a responsibilty to something greater then yourself not a sign of weakness.

Religion does not make you weak just as not having religion doesn't necessarily make you strong. I don;t understand what you mean by get something wrong though, to often people concern themselves with the "right" religion, the "right" practices. All religions have the same basic messages of the eternal and God is graceful so anyone that tries to live a good life and according to their conscience (the voice of God) will be living according to God's will. I am not weaker for believing, personally believing makes me stronger.

Answer 3

They have a certain weakness, but it's a weakness that can make a person strong in other ways. For example, if you're not afraid to die because you believe in an afterlife, obviously that can give you a kind of strength. But this strength can also be a disadvantage. Sometimes it's healthy to fear death. This is only one example, though. What I'm really saying is it that people are too complex to categorize as "strong" or "weak". It's better to focus on truth versus myth. As an atheist, I find people respect me more when I attack them with logic rather than judgement.

Answer 4

Anthropologically speaking, religion is a natural manifestation of a people's culture. Basically, religion is the way we do things to compensate for the 3-dimensional world's incapability to provide solutions. (In plain language... where science ends, religion begins). Regarding religion and human weakness, it depends on faith. Humans who have great faith accomplish great tasks no matter what religion it is. (Pagans = Babylonian/Chaldean empire, Medo-Persian empire, Greco-Macedonian empire, Roman empire; Christians = Holy Roman Empire, Byzantine empire; Muslims = spread of Islam, crushing the Byzantine empire; Jews = surviving the holocaust, winning back the Holy Land; Mayana Buddhism = Chinese empire, Khmer empire). Even in the absence of true religion, faith in others can still move mountains (Communism, Fascism, etc.). Humans with religion are not weak per se. But humans with weak faith are always weak.

Answer 5

I think not.

I think religion first AROSE out of certain weaknesses in human nature, but it has been maintained by manipulative leaders and flat-out flawed, illogical thinking. The worst among them think that, say, a television works by the miraculous glory of god and not electricity. Same deal with creationism and evolution...

Answer 6

A wise person recognizes his strengths and weaknesses and looks around him and knows that there is some intelligent being higher than himself who has designed and created all that surrounds us. Then, he carefully examines the scriptures to see what the creator has had recorded to teach us about him, his son and his purposes for the earth and mankind.

Answer 7

I believe that people who live by a religion are stronger than those who do not. They follow a set of virtues and generally maintain stronger family ties than those who do not. Just by living by a higher standard boosts society as a whole, rather than the 'me first, screw everybody else' attitude that's so prevalent now.

Answer 8

Are they weak? Of course not. Man people have over come their fear of death, and even to the point of taking it themselves because of faith. Nations were founded on it. They can hold to their ideology even in the light of ' evidence " against them. Some have had their fellow believers burned. Others have had them stoned. And yet they continue to believe.

That is not weakness, friend. That is more strength then I will ever claim to have.

Best wishes.

Answer 9

I rely on the teaching of christ.

You cannot prove or disprove the validity of the bible. Whether or not Jesus in the Bible was an actual historical person, someone had to write his teachings.

I believe he is the ultimate authority of what is right and wrong...good and evil. And I believe this not from his supposed ressurrection or virgin birth or other miracles.

I believe because his teachings ring truth to me.

Answer 10

i beleive that they are weak because they dont want to see life the way it really is and they shove it so far in thier brain they actually start to beleive it ; this world is what our minds created it to be, the idea of god was created with the mind and his apparent legacy has been passed on by the power of the mind.