I mean when we were kids, the vast majority of us were told, and believed, that Santa brought us our presents every year. And that the Easter Bunny brought us treats. And that spooks and goblins were out to get us at Halloween. But as time wore on, those stories became less and less believable.
Until one day, we realized that they were just childish stories designed to invoke wonder and imagination.
Now, I'm not saying that those things aren't important, but you MUST realize that they are just that; Imaginary stories.
So, why haven't any of you been able to grow up enough to realize that your stories about imaginary sky-pixies (you call them god) are just stories and fables?
2007-05-24 09:14:28 · 20 answers · asked by Yoda Green 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Apparently not.
Many people live their entire lives without facing the fact that their religious belief is just a superstition.
It would be nice if people would face their fairy-tales of childhood, but unfortunately they tend to just fester and grow into hostility, intolerance, and sheep-like following of leaders.
2007-05-24 09:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Religion was created in the absence of science and it had the effect of uniting a group of other wise 'free-thinkers' to follow a particular dogma and/or leader in unquestioned belief. It's how the religious right still hold sway on AMERICANS today. What we have now is a cult that believes that 'The RAPTURE' is real and are forming their political decisions that affect the world based on this and other weird stuff.
2007-05-24 09:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I observed it, yet that's an identical because of the fact the video of peanut butter that proves god can not create and god does not exist. If god can turn peanut butter right into a human than i will have self assurance in creationism. so some distance there are plenty extra evidece for evolution than creationism, how do you take care of that?
2016-11-05 06:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was NOT raised as a Christian. In fact, my father was an abusive atheist who poked fun at God (he called him the cosmic muffin) and said that he was a frisbeeterian (your soul's a frisbee, and when you die it goes up on a roof and you can't get it down).
I did NOT believe in God, and didn't want to either. I figured that if there was a God, that He hated me and was playing some kind of cruel joke on me. I also did not believe in love. My education in science and materialism didn't help, and by the time I was 23, I had become a binge alcoholic and eventually trashed my career in military intelligence (I was an Arabic linguist) by slitting my own wrist. Only after I began to have faith in Christ (long story) did life even begin to make sense.
Whether or not you are dismiss the set of circumstances that led me to faith is immaterial. It floors me, though, that someone of your apparent intelligence lacks the intellectual prowess to conceive that there just may be something beyond your comprehension, and is willing to waste your time on an indefensible position.
2007-05-24 09:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sorry to burst your little bubble, but if anyone believes in incredible stories, it is the atheists. Isn't it time to give up your Fable (oh, I keep forgetting you call it a "theory") of Evolution?
2007-05-24 09:35:13 · answer #5 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What are you talking about? Santa and the Easter Bunny are real. Who pooped in your easter basket?
2007-05-24 09:17:26 · answer #6 · answered by John L 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I first believed in Santa Clause,I was not a different person on December 26th.
2007-05-24 09:24:29 · answer #7 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is real. People saw Him and touched Him. His life has effected the lives of millions of people. He lived and died and His resurrection was witnesses by thousands. His life is not a myth.
His mother, appearing to thousands of people over hundreds of years is not a myth.
Denial of God does not stop God from existing.
2007-05-24 09:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by Mary W 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ah, yes, it must be great to be 11 or 12 like you are. Don't worry you will probably grow up, but you won't be any smarter.
Too bad.
2007-05-24 09:21:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'll be straight with you . . .
I the cases of many Christians, a lot of us grew up Christian, but never even understood what we were being told.
Like me, I grew up going to church, but didn't get what was I was being taught UNTIL I was about seventeen or eighteen years old.
A LOT of Christians are Christians not because they were brought up that way, but because they sincerely believe it. I was never brainwashed, I never even paid attention in church. I chose to believe it in my teenage years. . .
2007-05-24 09:18:25 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋