2007-06-20 10:19:55 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I took a minute to read through the answers given above mine before I decided to respond. It was an effort to collect a little data before giving you just pure opinion. Unfortunately the first few responders were dead on the money. The effect has been nil to none in anything that might qualify as what one might think of as a positive direction and it might even be true, as it has already been stated somewhere up there ahead of me on the list, that the religiously entrenched are only motivated to dig in for a prolonged re-enactment of "them vs God & us" - a the second coming of a revised and bazzaar sort of philosophic WWI.
It appears that the name "Myth Busters" isn't a very popular one with the god-beliving crowd and it also appears that the activity of myth busting is preceived as forcing ones atheist opinion upon another rather than a gesture of offering the results of research and the simple truths that are found and evidenced in logical reasoning.
You may have seen something in the entire collection of answers given that I haven't, but my over-all opinion, my broadesr perspective, on the effects of myth busting as it pretains to god-believers has to be that it riles them into an emotionally driven defensive posture moreso than it eases them and causes them to think over what has been presented to them.
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2007-06-20 11:28:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It really doesn't have any measurable effect. The good Bible Thumpers are already familiar with the arguments from myth busters and they have their rebuttals ready. Just pose one of the myth busters positions and watch all the responses.
2007-06-20 17:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I qualify as a "Bible Thumper", exactly...
But I am a Christian.
I would say that calling anyone a "Religious Myth Buster" might be a bit...ambitious?
Those who might even imagine naming themselves any such thing would get no reaction from me but abject pity.
Someone who has come to the conclusion that there is no God through their own logic and observation gets more respect from me than someone who is trying to change my belief with that same logic and observation. Someone who tries to tell me that his conclusions, which are different from mine, make him somehow superior to me and others who share my belief, is again and object of pity.
The fact is that I would like to help you...but I can't get past that steel wall you've built around your heart...
With a tear in my eye, I would like to ask my God to bless you, and perhaps, one day, open your heart so that you might hear His voice...
My dearest wish is that I might embrace you, and others who think as you do, as members of the Family of God. I am praying that God will not lock the door, till you and these other "myth busters" come stumbling home.
2007-06-20 17:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I am actively out there busting religious myths every day.
So myth busters are Bible believing Christians.
Pastor Art
2007-06-20 17:43:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love it. Some of it's so witty. We come to Answers to pick up questions. No questions, no Yahoo Answers. Narrow minded people on both sides are a downer, because they're usually negative also. You would think hell is the good news of the kingdom. Which means grave in Hebrew. Jews never believed in hell until they found out the Christians had something going on that sounded pretty 'good'. I guess we would all like to see some people in a fire for a minute of two. Just until the eyebrows singed off and that smirk on their face turned to pain, but we realized that that it was against Walmart policy and the boss would be mad. Then we wondered if maybe something was wrong with us. Cooler heads prevaled. The bad guys turn everyone off.
2007-06-20 17:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A quick study of basic psychology will tell you that you can't break through delusion easily. It'd take a lot more than the myth-busting on here to have a real effect. Still, to those who aren't steeped in the fundamentalist doctrine, there is hope.. and they can learn something.
2007-06-20 17:28:52 · answer #6 · answered by Kallan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not much at all, you can't reason with blind faith.
However, I do think the "Myth Busters" as you call them probably have a singificant impact on people who are being lead towards religion by others. A lot of people are drawn towards religion because of fear of hell, and I think that athiest arguements probably give these people a better chance of making their minds up without the 'hard sell'.
By the way, the point that M S makes above is very valid. There is a huge difference between offering an opinion to someone who is looking for one, and forcing your opinions onto people who you know will be offended by them.
2007-06-20 17:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Can you tell me exactly what a 'religious myth buster' is?
2007-06-20 17:25:12 · answer #8 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one can take away my faith in the word of god or my belief in him in fact when non believing myth busters do that it just makes my faith stronger the lord spoke of this happening toward the end times so keep the faith be strong and put on the armour of god
2007-06-20 17:27:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lean a little closer to your screen.
And who are the "Religios Myth Busters"? I've not heard of them. They are nothing until I hear of them. Send them to me to present their "case". lol
2007-06-20 17:26:00 · answer #10 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋