Seriously, ones that you think are asking all these crazy questions and saying these crazy things because they are secretly curious about God?
2006-12-31 08:37:10 · 32 answers · asked by Stacey B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that God has wired in a desire to know him in all of us. With that said I think it is closer to the surface in some people more than others.
Of course, many of the crazy questions are backdoor attempts to get knowledge of God, and that is why we need to lovingly answer them. But sometimes I wish they would just go to church and get the whole picture - or read "The Purpose-Driven Life", etc.
But we are called to spread the Good News and that is what we have the opportunity to do here - and that is pretty awesome.
2006-12-31 08:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Honey, I'd call that wishful thinking. On your part.
There are many people who switch between religions many times in their lives. Many of these same people bounce through agnosticism and/or athiesm at some point as well. At whatever point they happen to be, the only definition that they deserve is the one they pick themselves. If someone believes themself to be a christian, then so be it. Now if they believe the teachings of a different religion, perhaps they might have chosen the wrong word, but seriously, who know what they believe better than they do?
Certainly some self-proclaimed athiests may be interested in becoming a christian for whatever reason. There is always that security that come from invisible friends; traumatized children revert in that direction a lot. Agnostics even more so, because the term agnostic has been broadened in the modern vernacular to include not only militant agnostics ("No one can know if god exists") and passive agnostics ("I can not or do not know if god exists"), but also weak diests ("I think there is some sort of diety"), spiritualists ("There is a binding supernatural force of some kind"), and other branches of supernaturalists who do not have a solid core belief structure regarding the nature of god.
A true athiest is not a closet christian, though. A true athiest is one who believes that there is no god. That's the whole defintion for it. Maybe some people call themselves athiests while they work things out in their head. That would be a case of someone adopting a convenient label. It happens a lot with every belief system, or lack thereof.
If by "crazy questions" you refer to things such as "Why would a loving new testament god slaughter babies in the old testament?" , that would be in fact a valid question, and one expressed out of a athiestic confusion regarding why 90% of the population is so francitcally in support of their religion that they would kill, pass laws, or degrade others. Athiests live in the same world as thiests. We have to deal with thiests all the time; not to mention thiestic laws, processes, and propaganda everywhere. It's enough to make us want to drive through the streets with a loud speaker yelling "This is ridiculous! Do you not see the flaws in your Holy Book? The contradictions, the lies, the propaganda? How can you miss this???? Why are you willing to die for a storybook and an invisible friend!" Obviously, most of us have better manners, but sometimes our mouths just run away with us online.
Yea, we're curious about god. We're curious as to which group is going to notice first that their god is a fantasm, and which god is going to be the first to instruct his/her people to start the next nuclear war. We are REALLY curious about that. About the rest of it? Like how we can join one of teh happy cults nearby? Not so much.
2006-12-31 08:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tain 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I doubt they are closet Christians. They may be curious about if there is a God or curious as to how people can believe there is a God but I don't think they are closet Christians. Its would be pretty difficult to be a closet Christian. You are challenged too often by both society and staying the course.
2006-12-31 08:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by neptune 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh god I feel sick.
Closet christians? Certainly not - on the other hand in a country as religiously oppressive as the US I'll bet there are plenty of closet atheists.
In fact the statistics practically prove that many celebrities and polititians must have pretended to be believers to get elected.
Curious about God? Maybe so, but I can be curious about leprechauns, dragons and unicorns. Doesnt mean I expect to meet any when I die.
2006-12-31 08:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
well i'm agnostic and i'm not any sort of closet christian and of course people are curious about certain things if anything we're also curious about the reason logic and commonsense of people when it comes to religion hell as an agnostic i look into every different possibility ahh but what would you understand as you only want to see things your way anyway i'm really starting to think about not coming to the religion and spirituality section anymore i'm up in the air about whether to come to this section once in awhile or just not come back never of course i know you christians and religious people will probably be rejoicing over that but whatever i'm getting tired of always having to open people's minds up when obviously they are so closed minded it just takes it's toll on me after awhile so happy new years anyway
2006-12-31 08:43:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's hard to be 100% anti-religion when you set yourself up as "against religion." It's rare to find an atheist who didn't have any religious background whatsoever...I mean, religion is EVERYWHERE. And not just Christianity, I mean. But if you're going to be against something, in a way, you tie yourself to it by being its enemy. So they're linked even if it's just finding out stuff to hate about their enemy.
Now, as far as agnostics (which makes more sense to me), they'd believe in God if they had proof. Which is kinda backwards, because that would mean that they "know" God--belief is when you don't have any proof. Anyway, some of them really don't know about God or what to believe, and are seeking the truth, so they might ask questions out of curiosity or whatever.
I think it would be interesting to find somebody raised in a lab who was never exposed to any superstitions, folklore, or religion. That person would probably be a little cuckoo, but it would be interesting.
2006-12-31 08:46:30 · answer #6 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
some at least grew up Christian.
I think the reason some say the more crazy things is that (at least in America) Christianity is considered the norm (it's true if you look at the stats more people say they are Christian in this country then who don't) and yet there is a small yet very vocal group that of Christians that feel the need to force their views on others.
maybe these are people who decided the attack the views of those people, not realizing that they are attacking people who are not as rude
or they could just being doing because they know it will push some people's buttons.
2006-12-31 08:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by goldenbrowngod 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I only ask crazy questions to incite verbal tirades from theologists.
I wouldn't think an Athesist, like myself, is a closet christian, but I would think that of an agnostic.
Have a wonderful New Godless New Year!
tc
2006-12-31 08:40:59 · answer #8 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gotta love the arrogance.
Why do they have to be "closet Christians" if they're "secretly curious about God"???
Why can't they be "closet Muslims" or "closet Deists" or "closet Hindus"? Why does it have to be the Christian idea of "God" that they must be secretly curious about?
BTW, if you ever ask yourself "Why are Christians so disliked?" - that arrogance is a huge, huge contributing factor.
2006-12-31 08:40:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Will you Christians quit asking that? No, Atheists, Agnostics and Pagans are NOT closet Christians. In fact, I'd rather be dead.
2006-12-31 08:44:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋