For all the 'one-way-or-no-way' perspectives, doesn't it ever bother you to think that millions upon millions of people disagree with your absolute truth and have their own absolute truth of their own?
If you're so absolutely sure, wouldn't it be noticable for everyone else to the degree that they would have no choice but to agree with you? How can you be 100% sure that your view is 'fact' beyond faith when countless of people can point out how and why it's not 'fact'?
I'm not instructing you not to have faith, but I am pointing out that your faith certainly is 'not' fact for the rest of the world. Your belief, each to their own, but when you start trying to legalize and incorporate your religious belief as 'the one way', you're endangering everyone else from the free will of decision and beliefs we are entitled to.
2007-01-18 07:54:18 · 41 answers · asked by dying_for_cpt 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
illogical question
people are free to believe whatever they want
2007-01-18 07:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
To summerize, "people are stupid"... There are millions out there who believe pleanty of ridiculous things, and as most western civilization uses the correspondence theory of truth (other theories don't work so well in social-justice cituations), they can't all be right.
If for example you believe resolutely that you didn't murder someone, but someone else believes wholeheartedly you did murder someone... Achnowledging that it may be true for them, and not fact isn't a good idea.
I mean I sympathize with your viewpoint, and I hate it when people claim they KNOW they are absolutely right, because they don't and can't know with any certainty something based upon faith. But at the same time, there can only logicly be one truth out there, one often has faith they didn't have a psychotic episode and butcher people when one can't absolutely prove it and one has faith that the person they recognize at someone is that person regardless of non-reliable aspects of human memory (we automatically fill in the blanks),
2007-01-18 07:59:18 · answer #2 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't and wouldn't expect all the world to agree with me. Everyone has different experiences. Even within one certain religious system no 2 people agree on every single thing in it. For every person on the planet there is a unique set of beliefs. My ego isnt so huge that I would expect others to think and believe exactly like me.
2007-01-18 07:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by Dovahkiin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why are you so certain that other beliefs are wrong? Everyone's beliefs are true to them. Facts change over time. All you can do is take an active role to counter those that you find extreme through voting and active participation.I know of no religion taking an active political role to change society. Who is this "you", you speak of?Try to control your responses to what you can attribute to ignorance. Perhaps, some view you as extreme. Have a great year and relax.
2007-01-18 08:16:59 · answer #4 · answered by firestarter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you name any two humans that agree on everything? I think not. You would have to standardize all knowledge and experience, giving everyone the exact same set of facts and theories for that to happen. As long as people have different choices, they will MAKE different choices. That does not make anyone right or everyone wrong. It's just a symptom of the human condition.
2007-01-18 08:07:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would be great if all the world agreed on one belief. But nope. We are rebellious and cynical. So we won't do that.
Bet if you go around asking people there would be some that would not agree that 1 + 1 = 2. Remembering that 1 + 1 is definitly 2.
2007-01-18 07:58:27 · answer #6 · answered by twizteez 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesnt matter what the truth is about anything, someone is bound to disagree with it. The only way everyone would agree on something is if no body had a mind of their own.
2007-01-18 08:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, all the world would not agree with me because I'm certain that my belief is absolutely true and right. That's only my opinion of my belief. Whatever I may think of my belief, others would hold their own opinions of their own belief.
2007-01-18 08:00:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because my faith states that only a few will be able to enter in because the 'gate is strait' and 'way is narrow'....
Matthew 7:
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
2007-01-18 08:16:32 · answer #9 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans like most animals are territorial. The claims to having religious truth and certainty is just a vulgar claim to intelectual territory and it gives a convenient license to hate or look down upon other people.
There is nothing divine about any religion.
2007-01-18 08:01:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No of course not- for the enemy satan, deceives many just as the Bible says- and this is how it is- and will be- many will turn away from the truth because satan will give them something else to make them think it is the truth, something that feels good to them- he is a liar- and as the bible says: and this is to christians!
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
-So just think of those who are not rooted in the faith of Jesus Christ, how easily they are to be led astray- because they are not rooted in the word of God, nor do they believe it. The enemy blinds many:
This is to those who do not walk in the truth of God's word nor believe:
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
And the Bible also tells us many will turn to their own way, something that suits them and makes them feel good, instead of stick to the teachings of Jesus Christ which is the ONLY truth and stands forever.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
2007-01-18 08:01:26 · answer #11 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋