plug the gaps in human knowledge with GOD,
whats wrong with not knowing something
2007-07-08 08:35:58 · 4 answers · asked by G.xi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To quote Elmer Fudd "The unknown is vary vary scarwee!"
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown, and partly the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing - fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand.
— Bertrand Russell, 6/3/27
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.
— Joost A. Merloo
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience [and religion] and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
— Isaac Asimov
What the mind doesn’t understand it worships or fears
— Alice Walker
Fear is the mother of all gods.
— Lucretius, (B.C.E. 94?-55)
For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.
— Genesis, 3:19
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!
— George Meredith
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
— T. S. Eliot
Big Deal! I’m used to dust.
— Gravestone epitaph requested by Erma Bombeck
2007-07-08 08:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The unknown is far to scary for most people. Stuffing god in there is like a comfort food to many.
2007-07-08 15:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Christians are mentally lazy. Mental atrophy caused by using their god as a crutch.
2007-07-08 15:43:29 · answer #3 · answered by Kaze 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
scientists still don't know what happened before the Big Bang(even tho their trying to find out) and theirs no problem they admit it
2007-07-08 15:45:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋