2007-03-02 20:26:38 · 11 answers · asked by drfreud 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
God springs forth from the primitive limbic system of your brain, the last remnants of your reptillion past. The area where our raw emotions reside, including the irrational belief systems.
The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.
The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.
In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being, supernatural entity or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, some will have good things happen to them and some not, some will blame the invisible entity but objective reality wins all the time....no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of theirs to work...sorry
And why does bad things happen to good people all the time? When the tectonic plates crash into each other causing human calamity, they don't worry about Karma, good and bad, evil and riteousness. Life's paths are made up of randon circumstances, some predictable and some not. Most religious people will state that god has a 'bigger' plan for them and humans in general, that we can't know the 'big picture.' Most say there can't be good unless we know or experience the depths of evil.
Is it fair to have predation, disease, deformities, child rape, parasites and evil in the world? If the answer is yes, then with god(s) like that, who need them?
2007-03-03 21:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because tragedy often brings people to Him. I grew up in a house where my mother taught me about God. I never believed in him until I had been arrested twice, had two close friends O.D. and die, and many other things I would not wish on anyone. I finally hit rock bottom and somehow ended up in a church. I am now a Born again Christian, who is thinking of going to a seminary. If God never allowed me to go through tragedy I never would have come to Him. Ultimately if I kept living the way I was living I would be dead... one way or another.
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2007-03-02 20:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Brandon C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gave humans the power of free will.
Basically, if God were to take this free will away from us,
everything would be the same. We would all think the same, do the same things, probably look the same. There would be no diversity. ALso God gives us this free will so that we learn from the decisions we make.
2007-03-02 20:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Erickson B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be good if God could resolve spelling for us too.
Specifically, the classroom of life is related to the use of freewill.
2007-03-02 20:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by PS Drummer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because God Wanted It That Way. God Does Certain Things And That's The Way HE Wants It. I'm not really a christian, so I did my best impression trying to think like one. So how did I do?
2007-03-02 20:31:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't allow human tragedy. Humans allow tragedy. God is our strength in tragedy. Why should He solve our problems when he gave us the ability to solve them ourselves?
God does send people into our lives to help us through tragedy, however.
It's up to us. God loves us enough to let us make our own decisions.
2007-03-02 20:32:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well freedom of choice, we live and die by our own decisions and actions.
Sometimes things happen that seem to make no sense.
Maybe its our purpose to resolve them.
2007-03-02 20:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by sociald 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you had an anthill would you stick your finger down in there to stop them every time an ant had a fight with another ant?
2007-03-02 20:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Jack S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that would take away the power He gave us.
2007-03-02 20:30:33 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because then we wouldn't learn a thing, especially about ourselves.
2007-03-02 22:52:17 · answer #10 · answered by occluderx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋