Would it not be immature for me to say,"I have faith that the earth is a cube"?
2006-12-29 07:53:40 · 8 answers · asked by big j 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Palomnik---Any person above the age of 10 who reads the ENTIRE bible and walks away believing that nonsense is wasting his time going to a library, becouse he is not mature enough to evaluate what he reads.
2006-12-29 10:02:27 · update #1
Crazy hors-- If you believe what you have found written in the Bible, then you,re not ready for those other studies.
2006-12-29 10:09:52 · update #2
Luvwinz--It will never bother me to not understand obvious B.S.
2006-12-29 10:13:08 · update #3
B.S. doesn't deserve understanding.
2006-12-29 10:14:26 · update #4
Reeann---You would not even be aware of a god if someone else wasn't thinking for you. You might still be searching for truth like any honest person, instead of wallowing in some mystical, romantic stupor that is nothing more than an over-simplified explanation of the universe.
2006-12-29 10:23:54 · update #5
TTC--- Sounds like you're describing some hard-headed child.
2006-12-29 10:27:33 · update #6
Smiling4e---Everywhere that you wrote God, you could have written "a god", or "nature", or Moe, or Zeke, or" Whoever"
2006-12-29 10:34:29 · update #7
Smiling4e---Everywhere that you wrote God, you could have written "a god", or "nature", or Moe, or Zeke, or" Whoever", or "Whatever".
2006-12-29 10:35:17 · update #8
You sure use a lot of words to say so little.
2006-12-29 10:37:12 · update #9
Louis L---I disagree.Most Christians I have talked to, admitted that they have never read the entire Bible. They read mostly bits and pieces from the New Testament.It's much easier to blieve the N.T., because it is not filled w/ hate and violence like the O.T.
2006-12-29 10:47:30 · update #10
Smiling4e---Do you really need all that clutter in your mind just to remind yourself that it's wrong to lie,steal,cheat, or kill?
2006-12-29 10:53:37 · update #11
Yes, it is.
It is much easier for some people when someone is telling them what to do, what to believe, and how to act.
Now shut up and send all your Money to God immediately, or you will burn in Hell.
2006-12-29 08:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by yomama 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. everybody could be intellecutally lazy; Christian, Agnostic, Atheist, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. i became Agnostic for an extremely long term. Laziness might propose which you're actually not doing something and making no progression. As a skeptic myself i think that someone who's agnostic is merely being extra intellectually common. it is to assert, Why say you comprehend some thing once you do no longer comprehend? faith is believe. The question for me became, "Who do I believe?". For the longest time I in basic terms depended on my very own observations so I did extremely some study which I proceed even on the instant. the load of info which I proceed to locate is crushing.
2016-11-24 23:28:27 · answer #2 · answered by immanuel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is your god. Nothing wrong with it. If you have decided in your heart there is no God, how can your mind actually receive any teaching. I think very intellictual scholors, both believers and athiests, have argued this for a long time. The result, one could not prove God didn't exist, and the other couldn't prove God did exist. A sort of intellectual stalemate. Should people continue to learn and study about things, sure. But as you know, it takes a lifetime, and is ongoing. To consider yourself intellectually superior for one reason or other suggests to me that you have your own type of "laziness" that you have not considered.
2006-12-29 08:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by mariedockins 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith is the assent of the heart to an intuition of existential truth.
If you think people of faith are intellectually lazy, you need to turn off your computer and visit a library. You could start with Karl Rahner's "Foundations of Christian Faith."
And I wasn't talking about the Bible. I happen not to be a fundamentalist; the Bible is an anthology of ancient Hebrew myth, law, history, poetry, and apocalyptic.
You might also try Hans Kung's "Does God Exist?"
2006-12-29 07:57:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I disagree, just because I have faith in God does not stop me from pursuing knowledge in everything. Science, biology, anthropology, all fascinate me and I am always trying to learn something.
2006-12-29 07:59:17 · answer #5 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is immature. It's also obvious that you've never struggled with faith. It's much more lazy to refuse to open your mind and eyes to ideas that aren't easy to understand.
2006-12-29 08:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am an atheist and I assure you people do not believe what they believe because they are lazy.
2006-12-29 08:27:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not hardly. It takes a lot of work to study and stand your ground
2006-12-29 08:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋