I saw that as an answer to a previous question and I'd like to know how many people believe that it's true.
2007-01-30 09:15:26 · 23 answers · asked by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't. But then I don't believe in a word of God.
But that is most definitely the attitude of the relgious who seem to mostly want a pre-fabricated belief system which requires nothing of them but obedience.
2007-01-30 09:20:12 · answer #1 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
That's one of the very earliest, and most enduring, of Church dogmas.
The Church Patriarchs attacked questions like "Why did God create a world in which evil exists and redemption is necessary?" - perfectly reasonable and poignant questions which ought to occur to anybody capable of thinking - as "thoughts which lead people into heresy." "Orthodox" literally means "straight thinking," i.e. "group thinking" along bureaucratically approved lines. All original thought is "heretical" by definition.
The same Church knew what it was doing when it persecuted Copernicus a thousand years later for daring to suggest that it was simpler to hallucinate that the sun was the center of the "universe" than the earth. A modern mind wonders what the big deal was, but the Church authorities back then were perfectly aware that once you begin to poke holes in the cosmology of the bible, it's a slippery slope to the destruction of all the superstitions upon which its "authority" depends. Of course, the blockheadedness and bigotry of the average peasant assures that advances in science, however damaging to dogma, will take centuries to filter down to the level of his understanding.
And so it remains today, with such nonsense as "ID" and Creationism, which represent The Reaction in full force in the 21st century. These are the spiritual descendants of the people responsible for the Dark Ages.
2007-01-30 17:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's not really going away from god. It depends what you think about. Having your own ideas on things is not a sin. It depends how you use your knowledge. Many Christians are freethinkers. Look at all the protestant religions. I suppose it sort of depends on what you like to call a freethinker. If you go against a specific phrase in the bible, like no stealing and you think it's ok, then you are going against the word of god. Some things in the bible are debatable about what they actually mean. Look at the Catholics in the middle-ages. That's what happens when nobody's a freethinker.
2007-01-30 17:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by Slimmy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To be a free-thinker is to go away from the Word of God" The word of "God" as represented by who? Pat Robertson? Jerry Falwell? The PTL club?
To be a free-thinker is to be unafraid to think for ones self, nothing more.
2007-01-30 17:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is not necessarily true. Free thought means that you don't automatically believe whatever you're told. You look at things logically and decide for yourself what you believe. This may mean that you end up believing in God (which would be unfortunate, but it's your choice).
2007-01-30 17:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not to be a free thinker, you can think, imagine, hope and dream many things. But, they should always be things that would glorify God. If you are thinking it would be okay to think or do something unGodly than you would still be able to think it. God just wouldn't agree with it and it would be a sin.
2007-01-30 17:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by Stacey B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lets clarify a few things. Since sin, mankind is less than perfect. Perfection is YHVH's standard. YHVH sent the Savior YAHOSHUA so that by receiving Him man could receive the perfection needed to live in a perfect world. If a person chooses not to receive this gift, then he cannot live in the perfect world, and therefore, when the Almighty cleanses this world with fire, and burns up all sin (prior to making this world new, and perfect) then those people attached to their sins will be burned up with the sins they refuse to give up. How could the Almighty be more generous????
Clearly, no. Being a free thinker does not require one to contradict the Almighty. That is only error
2007-01-30 17:19:17 · answer #7 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't know that you have to qualify the word thinker with free. I think thinking is all that's required.
2007-01-30 17:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find it hard to believe, that using the one faculty God gave us that seperates us from animals would ever be a bad thing, It's how we use our thoughts and knowledge from "free thinking", that define us as good or bad.
So nah, don't agree with anyone who says that.
2007-01-30 17:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by AJ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe this at all because Christianity teaches in the bible that God gives everyone "free will" so I am sure that must also include freedom of thought, as well. It is what we do with the "free will" that will determine our fate.
2007-01-30 17:50:38 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. E 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO NO NO!!! I don't like that at all.
Even though I'm a free thinker, and I'm atheist, It's not about the so called god.
2007-01-30 17:19:15 · answer #11 · answered by ARMY Babe 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋