i belive that politics, science, math, and philosophy is turning us into a big nation of idiots questioning our selves enlessly without ever finding an answer when the answer is right in front of us.
2007-07-09 16:25:41 · 14 answers · asked by mike 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
in a way!!!!!!! its so true!!! look at our goverment? they are turning us against eachother in question because they are worshiping satan in the other realm???? and we are questing what les in the deep voids of the universe!!! ]
i swear to god all of you are getting me so pissed off!
2007-07-09 16:30:38 · update #1
we are not getting smarter!!! we are getting dumber!!! i swear all of you will burn in heel for your ignorance!!!!
2007-07-09 16:31:34 · update #2
im sorry im just pissed of about how we have all become goverment product. all of you,search for the truth and you will find it. the goverment is just one big cult worshiping lucifer who ever since the new world order are turning us against eachother. please people find it in your hearts and you will see that i am right.
2007-07-09 16:37:53 · update #3
I don't know about "turning against God" but I do believe we're turning against RELIGION because we are becoming more informed. Knowledge has a way of pushing back the encroaching darkness of ignorance. As long as man continues to learn, religion is destined for mythology. With nothing but dogma, tradition and ritual to counter the advance of knowledge, religion is doomed. However, whether or not God actually exists, belief in God is unaffected by human knowledge and understanding.
I'm guessing you're a religious person (Christian?) who can't understand why others don't believe as you do. There are many religions to choose from and there's also the option to not believe in ANY religion. I believe you’ll find that the only ones who have a LOGICAL reason for their beliefs are the non-religious.
Looking up on a starry night, I can understand the sense of awe and majesty that leads one to consider God the Creator. I can even understand how one can WANT God to be there.
What I can't understand is how one extrapolates from a belief in God to a belief in a SPECIFIC religion. There is NO logical process that can identify one religion as true and the others as false. The fact is, one's choice of religion is usually inherited from family, culture or community. This is clearly and abundantly illustrated by the geographic associations with religion: if you're from Viet Nam, you're likely to be Buddhist; if you're from the American south, you're likely to be Baptist; if you're from the Philippines, you're likely to be Catholic; if you're from the middle east, you're likely to be Muslim; if you're from Israel, you're likely to be Jewish; if you're from India, you're likely to be Hindu; etc. etc. This doesn't mean one can't choose otherwise . . . only that the overwhelming majority of the religious (even though devout) have made their choice by influences other than their own convictions.
In the case of conversion by "spiritual experience", the religion (spirit or God) of the experience is preselected by your existing leanings and biases. By the way, there is growing evidence that there is an evolutionary basis to the electrochemical processes in the brain that produce spiritual experiences. Although powerful, the spiritual experience is a delusion that wears off very quickly. Choices made during such an experience are emotionally charged and difficult to rationalize.
So, to summarize, I believe we're turning away from religion because religion can't stand up to the knowledge mankind is amassing. Overall, I don't believe belief in God is necessarily affected. I think God is becoming more cosmic and less personal. Morality is important for man -- not for God. God doesn't have to be -- or need to be -- personal. He doesn't intervene in our affairs. He doesn't answer prayers. Nobody can talk to him -- or at least, he doesn't talk back.
As for the other stuff you mention (politics?), I can't identify with the emotional appeals in your follow-ups. Nobody's going to hell and there's no Satan, Lucifer or Beelzebub.
There's a lot of good answers here, Dangel . . . try and let a small fraction of it sink in. Open your mind to the possibilities.
2007-07-09 16:27:35 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree, the more we so call advance with technologies and human rights the more immoral our society becomes. If you take God out of the equation altogether what is to stop us from immoral acts, or from people committing suicide or murdering others? The law? I for one don't fear the laws of man because I can always opt out by killing myself. I don't fear death, it is an easy route to take. I've always said that if I took that route I'd take a lot of people with me. If I didn't fear God nothing would stop me from committing acts of violence towards others. It is Gods promise that keeps me going and keeps me sane. The answer is simple treat others as you would want to be treated, why is that so unacceptable to so many people, and why do others think it is such a stupid way to live? I will never understand. I mean it has basically gotten to the point that you can't walk into the workplace , purchase an item, or even have a conversation with another human being without consulting a lawyer first, because someone is gonna get offended or someone is harassing another, or someone is conning someone else, are you sure we are advancing? I think the word trust should be eliminated from the dictionary! : )
2007-07-09 23:47:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don’t lame out now. The Bush Administration, the Republican Party, and hard-core conservatives have all sold themselves as the most devout of Christians.
It was, specifically, Rove’s mobilization of the Christian vote that put most of our current elected officials in office. The government you are ranting about is a 100% true-blue real Christian government – and that is where the evil comes from.
And your question is proof that Christianity is a philosophy of fear and ignorance based on the humanity-hating doctrine of a sadistic God. Only a Christian could claim that knowledge creates idiots with a straight face.
2007-07-09 23:40:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or are we questioning this invisible friend because we are getting smarter and thus have realized that we can no longer endure the double standard of criticizing the child for the very same action as the adult, which is believing in and saying you indeed have an imaginary friend.
2007-07-09 23:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by Edhelosa 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Higher education is turning us into idiots. Right, Lets be dummies for god!
2007-07-09 23:32:02 · answer #5 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're trying to rid ourselves of the last vestiges of the Dark Ages. About time, too.
2007-07-09 23:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it has so much to do with the increase in knowledge as it has to do with the decrease in love.
2007-07-09 23:29:37 · answer #7 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and what might that answer be?
see the thing is when we stop questioning ourselves, others start to do it for us. it gets pretty annoying.
2007-07-09 23:31:17 · answer #8 · answered by Sam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, idiots do not look for answers or ask questions. Idiots take everything on faith.
2007-07-09 23:28:54 · answer #9 · answered by God 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
amen..WHEN we stop and smell the roses..hear ethe birds singing or woodpecker hammer.ha.
they are singing love songs..to GOD.and we're missing it..everyday..and night.
men..is not our SAVIOR.
or Creator.
2007-07-09 23:30:36 · answer #10 · answered by blessedrobert 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋