Why on the religion and spirituality section does no one ask meaningful spiritual questions?

Question

It seems people only ask religious questions which are always negative and fostering resentment. Does this mean that none of you people have any spiritual essense within you, only malice and hatred for others. It only shows how sad this world has become when a spiritual religious section is nothing more than a slagging match. So use your brains please and ask some deep questions if you are not to shallow.

I thought it might be a good idea to explain my point more.
First I am not a Christian, nor a muslim, Jew or Hindu, I'll leave my beliefs a secret due to not wanting to preach to anyone.
Why don't you ask questions which have more connections with your own lives, the troubles the joys or the strife?
Secondly I am certainly not ignorant nor patronising, just alarmed by the infighting that I see not just on these pages but in the world generally.
Can you not see this question in it self is a spiritual question, that many cannot answer, yet can only through stones at.
I'll answer it for you then, too many inflated egos and not enough humility.

I am not a member of a cult but a practioner of a very respected religion come philosophy.
I do not have to explain myself to a Christian or likewise muslim god because I simply do not believe, yet there are aspects of many religions and beliefs that I respect for their intrinisic spiritual merits.
To the person how remarked about hinting instead of shouting, well I guess hinting didn't stop the nazi's from burning gyspies, homosexuals, mentally disabled people and of course Jewish people, Didn't Jesus say one must Shout what one believes to be true from the roof tops? Did not Martin Luther King shout out against hatred, if he had only hinted what then would have happened to the civil rights movement.?

Suzie S.. you sound like you know Jesus personally, yet unless your over two thousand years old, I guess your only speculating.
I would say that Jesus would have more compassion in his heart than you could ever imagine. Who are you to speak for him, or anyone else for that matter.
Secondly, Jesus never made any claim to be a god, that was mere fabrication by the early church fathers.

To answer Felicity's question, I believe the poor of India are more content than right westerners because they realise that they have only each other for comfort (as human beings) and are not deluded by Desires or inflated egos, or the trappings of wealth, which only seems to divide people into class and status. If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
I should Know my Grandmother and Mother were both born in India.

Answer 1

I like the values which Buddhists have and wish with all my heart i could take their views and apply it to all areas of my life - at all times, god knows i need to, but whether through laziness, forgetfulness and/or by being judgemental i revert back to how i usually am, cynical, bitter at times and very opinionated.

I am very aware that the more opinions you have the less you know but i am too ingrained in habit to change at the moment, who knows maybe my time to fully embrace it isn't that far away, maybe im not quite ready just yet.

Answer 2

Deep philosophical and spiritual questions are not well received here. So many have a particular fundamentalist religious agenda to advance, real thinking is seriously discouraged. Then there's the peacemakers, usually female, who uniformly imagine that no principle is worth fighting for and that everybody must get along all the time. We also have the idiots who report anybody whom they disagree with and are a major reason there's little meaningful discussion here in R&S. Between those who imagine it's all their way or no way at all and those who discourage all forms of intellectual disagreement, there really isn't any place here for thinking people with controversial opinions. It's not that we're too shallow, it's that we have far too much at stake (e-mail accounts, etc.) to risk actually expressing an original opinion or our own.

Don't believe me? Just post something, almost anything, that the Christians won't like and see how long you last. There is no freedom of speech here.

Maybe it's time to fight fire with fire. "Deke's Assassin" is number one on my personal hit list.

Answer 3

Well to be honest I think it has something to do with the fact the Almighty doesn't respond on yahoo answers. If you were to ask a serious religious question, then naturally your answer would come from another humans opinions. Whether they are right or wrong is irrelevant, they are still opinions. So unlike all the other categories where you can get actually facts to your question, without Divine intervention you can't in here. Also I disagree, I once asked what I thought was a serious questions regards to Satan, well I wanted an answer so I thought it was serious enough, and it got reported.

Answer 4

I think that depends on the nature of the question and how it's asked. If someone is truly interested in trying to understand other people's point of view, I don't get insulted. When people pose "questions" that are really just an attempt to make one another look stupid and increase the gap between us - I think it's offensive.

Answer 5

I posted a question similar to this only a day or two ago. People seem to want to vent their anger in this forum but I hope that their are enough people who are willing to both ask, seek and answer questions in a mature and inquisitive way that the 'others' will get the hint and leave.
Perhaps we should get Yahoo to open up an "I know more than you" section for those who just want to be vindictive?

Answer 6

Basically a question on the religious and spirituality is required to do the following:
1. Provide as little information as possible to make the statement very vague.
2. Make a huge generalization about a group of people
3. You should include the correct answer to your question, in your details ie. like yours
4. Show some form of condescending arrogance.

Answer 7

Right. Here's one. Having lived in India, I became aware that Hindu's, no matter how awful their living conditions were, smiled more often than 'rich' westerners. Is this because they believe in re-birth and they accept their present life in the belief that they will be in a better situation in their next life?

Answer 8

Fairly meaningful unless you decide it can't be answer:
What is a meaningful spiritual question to one just happens to be heresy/fairy-tale cuddling lunacy/blasphemy/whatever to another. Such is the nature of things, particularly when some religions (Christianity) and non-religions (Atheism) are inherently mutually exclusive with most others.

The fact that you don't seem to have gotten the deep meaningfulness of some questions doesn't mean it isn't there.

Totally meaningsless except when you look at it from the proper perspective answer:
Seeing how deeply spiritually meaningful your question completely and utterly fails to be, allow me to quote from the Christian playbook:
"Let he who is witout Sin Cast the First Stone."

Answer 9

The reason is simple. Most people here are smart they already found out that religion plays a minor role in solving our daily problems. Plus some people found out that the existence of God is based on belief not on proof. He exists only in our minds.

Answer 10

After the slugfest, we usually settle down for coffee and a cigarette.

Besides, of the ten thousand or so religions out there, which one would you like to discuss spiritually?