why dont people try to show that there religion is right instead of trying to prove that someone elses religion is wrong! all religions are based off miracles and it takes faith to believe in your relgion. so why dont people who arent relgious just stay out of religion instead of try to prove that its wrong!?!
2007-05-20 14:23:21 · 21 answers · asked by jacob e 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Insecurity. They can't believe that anyone could be happy believing what they don't believe. They might also think that, Gee, what if they're right? and that can't be, so they try to prove them wrong. If they can get one person to turn away, that's justification to them that they are right and the others are wrong.
2007-05-20 14:35:02 · answer #1 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At which point in human history did science exist without religion? If we go back as far as ancient Egypt, they had a science of building (pyramids and so forth), but it was in the service of an already established religion. Arguably, the atheist / communist countries of the 20th. century had a form of science without religion, but that was only by government fiat, not a true separation. And the "religion" that science proves wrong, for example, the Ptolemaic system of astronomy that called the earth the center of the universe, was, first, a science that was adopted by religion. Science is proving that the earth wasn't created in 7 days as we know the term "day", but that claim is held by only the most ignorant knee-jerk believers. Most Christians don't buy the literal creationism. I think if the ancient historical record were examined, we'd find religion did just fine long before science was a gleam in some philosopher's eye.
2016-05-22 12:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you tried to show that religion is right, you'd be doing the same thing!! There is no way to tell someone that they are wrong and you are right when it comes to religion.....it will always be this way until we all find it in ourselves to really love each other and find a meaning to life that we can all understand and believe instead of making war and fighting.
2007-05-20 14:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by ~MEEEOW~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's say that Alice is about to buy a house. All she did was look at the way it looked though. It was a beautiful house. Her friend Mark specialized in home construction. So when his friend Alice was going on and on about this house, he began to ask her questions, things that people should usually ask when buying a home, only to discover that she hadn't really looked into that stuff because her house "was so pretty." So he talked her into taking him along when she went with her realtor to look at it again and upon inspecting the house, he realized that there was a huge crack in the foundation and that the house could fall apart any time and she would loose all her money. Do you think it would be fair of him to warn her? That is all a lot of people here are doing. They are warning people of possible cracks in the foundation.
2007-05-20 14:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by Her 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well debating has 3 sides to it.
1. You provide a positive case for why people should believe what you believe.
2. You should point out the weaknesses in rival beliefs.
3. You defend the weaknesses of your own.
If people are convinced that they have the truth and peoples souls are at risk, to NOT say something would be immoral compared to the mere bruising of the ego you get when your beliefs are under fire. If it leads to your salvation, then good! My ego be damned!
2007-05-20 14:38:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because
1. religion affects public life in general and so everyone has the right to speak out against religion if they so choose.
2. atheists think that a person believing in and basing their life on myths and fairytales is a terrible waste of time and energy.
2007-05-20 14:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think we want more people to start questioning what they think they know. religion is the one area that is really off limits to skepticism. it's really taboo. also religion can be dangerous. i.e. 9/11, the crusaded, persecutiion of jews, etc. etc. would the 9/11 hijackers have flown those planes into the wtc if they hadnt thought they were doing allahs work? and that they would get a free pass to heaven with 70 virgins or whatever? religion CAN, not is, but can be dangerous. be skeptical of anything someone tells you is the truth.
Those who can induce you to believe in absurdities can convince you to commit attrocities.
-- Voltaire
2007-05-20 14:30:49 · answer #7 · answered by noXizTenC 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres.
Albert Einstien
2007-05-20 14:43:23 · answer #8 · answered by margherita 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People that feel the need to superimpose their beliefs up on others truly need to stand back and look at them selves. Who is to stand and speak for all? Who has the audacity to come in to your home and tell you what should be in your heart or that what is there is incorrect? What you believe in your heart is decided by you, no one else. Anything forced up on another is a facade.
2007-05-20 14:50:38 · answer #9 · answered by angelskisses75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I well know that most religious arguments are wasted effort. Might as well try and talk to a staggering drunk about the 'evils of alcohol'
On the other hand, religious zealots have the habit of baiting others to 'dunk the clown', (themselves) often funny when they are caught lying in public. (watch them wiggle)
Just as 'Pride cometh before a fall', these braggadoccios beg for comeuppance.
2007-05-20 14:40:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋