2007-01-23 14:36:20 · 22 answers · asked by SuperSkinny 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
depends on what the truth is.
If the truth is that a great white shark is about to chomp my leg off, that would probably scare me a bit.
Generally speaking, I 'd rather have the truth and deal with it.
2007-01-23 14:40:28 · answer #1 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No. Now let me ask you this. Does the REAL truth scare you that much that you have to ask these stupid questions in order to give yourself some security because deep down inside you have this nagging feeling and you think to yourself, maybe, just maybe they are right and there is no god. I'd better shore up my walls with more dumb questions that even I can't prove.
Give me a break. You scared little Kitty.
2007-01-23 14:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is the customary question, 'There are no longer any atheists in a foxhole', and, paradoxically, truly helps the entire thought in the back of atheism: that the ideas, whilst confronted with some thing it won't be able to cope with, will manufacture a mechanism (stated as 'God') to deal with that subject. it extremely is one way of watching it. paradoxically, this made-up god may be the comparable made-up, ego-based god it extremely is worshipped in maximum religions. on the different hand, whilst the 'self' (physique, character) is rightly perceived as no longer being the bedrock of protection that we expect of that's (whilst a disaster brings us to our convenience limits and our individuality can now no longer help us), we are left with a surrendering of the self and the effect could be an commencing as much as the actual God. This God is the actual God - the single of affection and the single that has no thought of hell, sin, guilt, judgment. it extremely is the different of the fake god it extremely is worshipped in maximum religions.
2016-11-26 22:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth that one day people will grow up and abandon religion?
No, that truth helps me sleep at night.
2007-01-23 14:48:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. People who are willfully ignorant of the truth scare me.
Thanks for the 2 points.
2007-01-23 14:41:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you don't know THE Truth any more than Atheists do. you don't know what happens (if anything) after the body is defunct and that's what religion is all about ... trying to be sure of what happens after death. humans create religion out of fear, follow religion out of fear and fail to escape from religion out of fear, fear of the unknown, fear of a wrathful deity, fear of afterlife punishment so a self honest person might ask who is more frightened? an Atheist or a religious person?
2007-01-23 14:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an Agnostic, but I think I can answer that no, truth doesn't scare an Atheist. Does it scare you?
2007-01-23 14:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
The only people in this forum who are interested in hearing your proselytizing have already been converted to your religion.
Go somewhere else; this forum is for intelligent spiritual debate, not "questions" that are really just thinly veiled attempts to preach your religious beliefs.
2007-01-23 14:41:24 · answer #8 · answered by Huddy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians used to burn people for saying the world was round. I think they're the ones who are scared.
2007-01-23 14:40:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, if we live our lives in fear they will be over before we know it. I know the truth might be scary to you, but the only ones that fear death, are those that never really lived.
2007-01-23 14:40:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋