It is wrong anywhere and anyone to believe anything without sufficient evidence. Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the Communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define ‘faith’ as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. When there is evidence, no one speaks of ‘faith’. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. Nobdy has any evidence to prove that bible is the word of God. It has to be believed blindly.
Shouldn't beliefs be formed on scientific and logical enquiry? If God wanted people to believe the bible why did he give people the poer of logic and reason? Or is it because he only wants fundies to believe in bible? It looks as if God has not given them the power of logic, reason out and question things
2007-02-05 22:30:23 · 7 answers · asked by Born again atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
blessed is he who believes without seeing.
2007-02-05 22:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by ekduin 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is what I keep asking, though I admit I often exchange the word 'fundies' for 'stupid people' but I consider them fairly interchangeable.
Surely anyone who thinks about the bible can be at best, a liberal, sophisticated Christian and reject much of it as allegory.
There is no moral guide in the old testament - thou shalt not kill meant thou shalt not kill another jew - outsiders or 'infidels' were considered fair game and the following books with their God-condoned massacres just goes to prove it. Since we can understand that many of Gods actions are immoral we obviously do NOT get our morals from the bible!
The scientific method of thought is one of the greatest things humanity has achieved and I will be more proud to be human when its something practiced by everyone.
2007-02-06 06:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The human mind is too small to understand everything that God knows - his nature, just for one, is too complicated for us to comprehend.
Yes, I would admit that Christianity is but blind obedience, but evidence is not everything - and, if ALL the evidence would be presented to us, we would not be able to think anymore. It would be too complex to understand.
And as to the Bible not being sure to be the word of God, Jesus is the testament. Jesus said that the Bible is the word of God, and He (Jesus) is, after all, the whole basis for Christianity.
True Christians don't say anything about other faiths doing harm and their own not. The next time you meet a Christian who does nothign but tell you how great Christianity* while other religions are useless, or tell you that he would be saved and you will not be, saying nothing else worth of knowledge, I suggest you tell him this:
"Is that the basis for your belief? Threatening people with hell and belittling other people's capacity to believe? You are not a true Christian. Go back to your Bible and read it properly."
*don't get me wrong; Christianity really is great.
2007-02-06 07:21:14 · answer #3 · answered by Charlotte 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God does not want any particular group of people to believe in him, he prefers all do. He leaves you the choice though to make up your own mind. Evolution is more faith than science also. You believe that life stated with Spontaneous Generation, yet there is not one tiny piece of scientific data that would back that, and every test to replicate it has failed. Yet if you believe evolution you believe it. Even though modern biology has shown it to be impossible by today's scientific standards. What is the difference?
2007-02-06 06:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we could chop of owe head might get rid of the logic and reason, pity we be dead.
sorry can help
but your right i could not believe blindly ether need something more than a book and all the Christian all shy away when you ask for it.
2007-02-06 06:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by goth_raz 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not our fault that God has rejected you. There are some poeple that have not redeeming qualities. You might be one of those people.
2007-02-06 06:35:19 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas A 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
but we have the Holy Spirit which leadeth us to all truth
2007-02-06 06:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by sahara_springs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋