2007-04-16 14:16:11 · 35 answers · asked by . 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we have as much capacity for rational and logical thought as anyone else , plus, we go a step beyond that and allow Gods teachings to guide those .... rational thought and logical thinking by themselves leads to many bad things ...
2007-04-16 14:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. If I believed as some, then my mind is nothing more than a chemcial electrical firestorm. Furthermore, the brain itself is apparently incapable of feeling pain - it just interprets it. When you have a "headache" it's not your brain that hurts, it's the meninges on the surface of your scalp, your sinuses or the muscles at the back of the head or on the scalp.
Does rational thought hurt me as a Christian? No. It makes me wonder, though, about how "rational" your thought processes are. You seem to think you can categorize all Christians, and this is obsurd. Have you interviewed them all? Worse yet, this sounds as if it is emotional in its origin, and emotion is as far from pure cold rationality as one can get.
Methinks he doth protest too much...
Tom
2007-04-16 14:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea. It always hurts when I form a rational thought that no doubt will get wasted on morons like you. Hurts real bad, too. Sort of like giving a rubber bone to a retarded dog. I guess that could be amusing for a while, though. Were you always stupid like this, since we're asking.............?
2007-04-16 14:23:03 · answer #3 · answered by vox populi 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what's going on. If I wanted to, I could avoid pain, but sometimes it's a better and a righter thing to do to feel the pain, for the better of something greater than myself.
Like what I've been exposed to with Christianity. I could deny all my experiences so that I could conform with those who deny it without knowing anything, but that wouldn't be honest, would it?
So all those people who haven't expereinced the type of things that God exposed me to will either never get there, or somehow respond to Him the way I did.
2007-04-16 14:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey here's a rational thought for you...ever think that this country waas FOUNDED UNDER GOD! Why do you anti-Christians continue to complain about us, when you're living in a country origanly founded under the person you claim doesn't exsist? Why don't you go join everyone in Canada and Europe......aye?
2007-04-17 13:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually no it doesn't..unlike how much pain you must have experienced when you chose to throw in an insulting question. If you do not like what we believe then why don't you just go leave us alone..only people who do not use their brains waste so much precious time insulting others rights to belive what they do. Isn't that what freedom is? You freedom seems to be conditional..you cannot bear anyone believing anything that you do not approve of..isn't that like being a dictator..you have to insult or punish those who do not match your thinking....the world is made up of so many who think like you..that is why there is so much violence, hatred, wars etc..all it takes is a spark of insult etc.
2007-04-16 14:34:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually what hurts my head is when non-Christians (athiests specifically) use the rules of logic (in a world they claim is from chaos) in order to form questions to the only people who actually acknowledge and know Reality. It's pretty cool how Jesus uses what the world interprets as foolishness to confound those who are wise in their own eyes.
See Christians know the truth, and no matter how much they tell those who are spiritually dead, they cannot understand, nor can they want to understand. This is why prayer is so vitally important in the giving of the Gospel to unbelievers. You must remember that they are dead people. They are unable to understand spiritual things, for they are foolishness to them. They are hardened enemies of God, incapable of loving Him, and therefore unable to do anything to save themselves from His wrath, which is about to come upon them. You must pray to the Father to send his regenerating Spirit to them, to wake them up, so that they may see the sinfulness of their sin, and their desperate and deadly situation before a holy and righteous God. Then they will repent and embrace Jesus Christ, as he is offered in the Gospel, and endeavour to follow after him to the end.
Of course, then they will become of of the ones who know the Truth, and will look in bewilderment and sorrow of those who are lost and perishing, of whom they once were.
2007-04-16 14:28:50 · answer #7 · answered by stegokitty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you will find, if you all open yours eyes, that this person is indeed a christian and it pains her to think rationally.
Which one of you so called 'christians' actually asked if this person was ok?
So much for christianity then!!!
2007-04-17 02:31:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. I'm having one right now. To pray that God has mercy on you, and softens your heart that you can come to know His son is the truth, the life and the way.
2007-04-16 14:22:44 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any organised religion is antithetical to rational thought. Dogmatic religions or people who follow their religions dogmatically, prefer not to use their brains and senses but rely on their prophets and/or scripture.
2007-04-16 14:22:20 · answer #10 · answered by munmun c 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋