Are they lost, ignorant, misguided, unlucky, enlightened, intelligent, informed, logical?
2007-04-23 08:18:51 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
doesn't believe in religion or doesn't believe in god. Some of the greatest minds believed in God like Isaac Newton,, Galileo even Charles Darwin.they were great thinkers and open minded. Religion is different to faith in God religion formalises a creed that restricts thought whereas true faith encourages free thought.
2007-04-23 09:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by Vengeance_is_mine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oooh, how many different reasons do you want?
According to a person of "faith", they could well be lost, misguided and ignorant. People forget that its' just a matter of faith and not a way of life, how can there be such a thing as "right" or "wrong"?
On the other hand, they're also free to be "open-minded" and "intelligent" (which is no requisite for not having religion, though it does help) and "informed", but again its' all about faith.
The problem is people don't remember that its' all faith. everyone has their own reasons for believing and not believing in faith and gods and energy, e.t.c, its' how good at reasoning they aer that defines them.
Toodles
2007-04-23 08:49:14 · answer #2 · answered by thetruesloth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expression is ill-formed. Saying that someone believes (or not) in religion is like saying that someone believes (or not) in belief. Which well, if you wish, might mean that someone believes (or not) that a certain belief exists, in which case not believing in religion is plain stupid, since it clearly does exist, there are actually quite many of them.
What you might want to say about that someone is that they might not be religious, or that they don't adhere to any religion, or that they don't believe in any thing that has a religion devoted to it.
And well, that someone would be just a radical form of atheist, and there are ignorant, lost, misguided and unlucky atheists just like there are lost, ignorant, misguided and unlucky believers. So if I didn't know the person better, I wouldn't say anything else about him or her.
2007-04-23 08:48:48 · answer #3 · answered by Trillian, Moon Daisy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How would you describe someone who doesn't believe in something intangible and outside the scope of scientific observation? Like, evil, future, love, good, utopia, justice?
The very essential things that underpin the foundations of social interaction and political structures are ideas for which there are no empirical definitions but we reify them in the language of spiritualism. Of referring to entities or a dimension outside the observable universe.
To believe in love, for example, is to believe in God, for He defines it in Christ.
If anyone knows of a better definition without relying on a very tortuous dialect of an empty universe I would be glad to shoot it down in flames with the knowledge of truth.
2007-04-23 11:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by forgetful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
logical - I can't logically except the idea of God in my head, but I would never say I was more intelligent, informed or enlightened than those who can.
2007-04-23 08:25:13 · answer #5 · answered by reniannen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blind? Woefully unobservant?
There's a massive amount of religion around in the world. It's undeniable, surely?
Whether it's good that it's there,
or whether we'd be better-off without it,
Now that's a separate question of belief.
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal.
2007-04-23 08:28:58 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is evidence that point to the fact that there might be a life after this one but its not that substantial and that is not enough for some. Nothing wrong with that. You just believe or you don´t.
2007-04-23 08:26:45 · answer #7 · answered by Guðni 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I call them people who don't believe in religion! There isn't one large categorization because atheists fall under there, agnostics, non denomenationalists, etc. etc.
Assumptions aren't good for anyone . . . . :0(
2007-04-23 08:23:53 · answer #8 · answered by danni_d21 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
very clever logical people who believe in the truth.not hearsay.that's why I'm an atheist and proud of it.we think for ourselves.can you.
2007-04-23 09:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by earl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i go with enlightened, intelligent, informed, logical.. but that just might be become i am someone of faith with no religion, lol.
2007-04-23 08:21:31 · answer #10 · answered by Loathing 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋