It seems like most people who are drastically into religion are very close minded and stubborn. You can not have a civilized conversation where you can both express your points, views, and opinions. Why is this?
Religion is great. It teaches morals. But most people are so involved in religion that they are blind. Why don't they have the ability to rationalize and question what is logical and illogical? They respond like programmed robots automatically reading verses from literature. I guess my question is: Why aren't most religious people Free Thinkers?
2007-01-21 14:17:42 · 12 answers · asked by Bobby_Bomberman 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't want to talk about it.
2007-01-21 14:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question. I think it is only the fanatics(85%) that are like that. A few of my really good friends are Christians, but they fully understand how evolution is fact. They also acknowledge the fact that the bible is mostly allegorical and that they strictly follow Jesus's teachings and nothing else that has to do with the bible. That and this is the product of children being indoctrinated so young that they can only think like these robots. We really shouldn't judge their ignorance as a whole fault of theirs. You have to understand that this has been their life for a better part of it. It is the ignorance of yesteryear that has us in society today. Slowly it will be dug out because you only get more liberal as the generations move forward. We are stuck in the middle of this very slow progression but rest assured rational thought and logical thinking will be in a greater majority of peoples.
2007-01-21 14:28:11 · answer #2 · answered by Puggz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just a note: any religious person who claims to be a Freethinker is lying. You cannot believe in a religion and at the same time claim to have Freethought. Freethought is based on logic and factual research to discover what you believe to be the truth. Anyone who thinks there is a huge dude in the sky that controls everything is not thinking logically and is ignoring scientific evidence of the world around us.
2007-01-21 15:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a free thinker. I hope that I am a free thinker. I think that faith actually hones your capacity for free thought, rather than limits it. When I was an atheist, I would completely have agreed with you. Please read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis for a much better explaination than I can give here. I realize that it only addresses Christianity, but its lessons are applicable to thought about many different religions.
2007-01-21 14:25:59 · answer #4 · answered by Suzanne 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right about religous people but I think it is seen in both religous and non religous people. I don't think most people have really thought out what they believe and are not willing to admit it for whatever reason. So they spout what they have been told to believe. It might be scriptures or it might be world views that society has taught as dogma that they don't really understand.
BTW. I am very religous and try to admit when I don't know the answer.
2007-01-21 14:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by lend322 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Freethinking makes it very hard to remain "religious" in the traditional sense. Being religious usually means hanging out with other religious people, and if you find them insufferable, then you're not likely to enjoy spending your free time with them.
You're more likely to enjoy the company of atheists. Or at least the company of people who aren't centering their lives around their God.
And by the way, I don't think morals are in any way, shape, or form the exclusive purview or even the most reasonable endowment of religions.
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2007-01-21 14:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You make a generalization. I could ask why so many atheists are so closed minded. I could say that even without asking them, I know they are, otherwise they would have opened up their hearts and allowed the spirit to guide them. Someone who is not willing to do that is not a free thinker.
2007-01-21 14:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by rndyh77 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon on the religion. Any faith is a conception device. If the conception device is one which emphasizes man or woman duty, values individuality and tolerance (which include "liberal" Christianity) then absoulutely definite, faith promotes freedom of idea. yet, if faith is used as a way of administration and oppression then--no matter if it is going through the call of Christianity, Communism, Nazism, or maybe if--then it is going to change into the enemy of freedom--of idea or something else. anybody have conception ssytems of a few type--no matter if tey pick to call that set of beliefs and values "faith" or no longer. once you accuse "faith" of proscribing freedom, you're making precisely the blunders ability oppressors want you to make--blaming the corporation instead of the human beings who're doing the oprressing.
2016-10-15 22:13:08 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You simply can not belong to a religion and be a free thinker, because religion controls thought by certain rules and literature.
2007-01-21 14:29:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because religion makes them feel special. Self rightousness is a strong drug.
One does not need religion to have morals. All it takes is common sense. If a person is too self centered to be considerate, kind and honest religion will not change them
2007-01-21 14:30:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I got a booger
2007-01-21 14:22:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋