atheists are included in religion, because the atheists are just like anyone in a religion - brain-washed/brain-dead and unable to Prove their beliefs.......................... !
2007-03-26 02:48:14 · 10 answers · asked by drwooguy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most everyone that I've met that is associated with ANY religion is NEVER a free thinker.
One slight mention of a question in their beliefs and you are labeled a sinner.
2007-03-26 02:52:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is up in heaven. He created Lucifer and bathed him in every manner of jewels. (The only angel he did this too by the way) so that he would become corrupted become evil. Why? because God cannot do Wrong himself and he needs an outside force to act on his behalf in this endeavor. Why does he need Lucifer? Because in order for him to get the people that truly believe in him he needs to give everyone a choice. Jesus is merely here to give everyone of us an out because when he gave everyone a choice they all choose the wrong way. (See the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah on and on.) Every time enough of the world doesn't believe in God he destroys the world and starts over. This is what the end times are about. What do you think am i a free thinker or brainwashed?
2007-03-26 03:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of the ancient egyptian theban faith. Not wicca, or pagan, but of "Amen-Ra." Ask yourself, why do religions all add "amen" at the end of their prayers? Egyptians had what they considered a "God on earth." The Pharoah who was the only one "chosen" by God to lead and advise the peoples, who in turn were allowed to "be" Free thinking in faith. One main deity though for over 2400 years. The creator God, "Amen."
Myth does not "build" what the most intelligent still can not figure out, nor does it last thousands of years.
2007-03-26 03:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine a child being left on its own to try to discover counting, numbers, addition, subtraction (with borrowing). multiplication, long division, fractions (like anybody understanding them) ratios, geometry, trig, calculus, ans statistic all on their own. Simply creating a relationship with numbers, and letting the knowledge flow naturally.
It took thousands of years and hundreds of mathematicans each building on the knowledge of previous generations to develop mathematics. No one person ever has, or ever could, develop all of that on his own.
Yet we think that a person could take the far more complex subject of God and figure it all out on his own without a help or teaching for others. That makes no sense.
Even a casual glance through the Bible will show that it is the stories of hundreds of people over centuries who encountered God a personal way, and then recorded that knowledge for others to learn from. It is a progressive revelation (like math) that builds on the knowledge and experience of the generations before. Each increaing the understanding of God, who he is and how to relate to him.
Just as Stephen Hawkings could not become the "free thinker" that he is - expanding so many ideas about science without first getting an understanding of the fundamentals of science that have preceded him, so a person who want to have a "free-thinking" relationship with God needs to begin with the fundamentals already knew about him.
Just as a child so not have to discover math but himself, but has teachers and books to help him, so a Christian has the teachers and preachers of the church and the books of the Bible to teach those fundamentals to him.
Once you have those, the sky is limit for how far God can take you in your relationship with him.
2007-03-26 03:02:28 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You believe that you have a relationship with the creator but I tell you the truth, it is the Great Deciever you commune with. Still praying for you
2007-03-26 02:51:29 · answer #5 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I disagree.
Let's deal with logic.
Religions and god are created by people and a god who is all powerful and all benevolent does not exist.
Why don't we need a god?
If a god who is all powerful and all benevolent does exist, people won't need a religion. If god is not all that, believing in this god will be pointless.
2007-03-26 02:58:26 · answer #6 · answered by ShanShui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brain-washed/brain-dead people because we don't believe in god??
Okay, that doesn't make any sense.
2007-03-26 02:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not our "style of government" that's replace into unfavorable yet how Obama is perverting and twisting it with a view to advance his own agendas, i.e., having the IRS harass non-liberal businesses, turning the branch of Justice on the media to objective and silence them, etc.,.
2016-11-23 16:34:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
free-thinker,spiritualist.I believe in God inside us,guiding us through his conscious to ours
2007-03-26 03:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That is, neither.
I hope you didn't think that your list was exhaustive.
2007-03-26 03:21:04 · answer #10 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋