Why do people fail to use common sense where religion is concerned? Why do they WANT to believe in nonsense??

Answer 1

They can't think for themselves. Ever noticed their I.Q. scores?

On Average, Theist has an I.Q. score below 75.

Answer 2

If religion allowed people to use common sense then they would all go to hell according to their religious beliefs. Common sense and religion do not mix. If you use common sense it becomes clear at the beginning that religion is a ridiculous farce. When you take a child and force it to believe it will burn for eternity if they don't believe in something that makes no sense, then they have no choice but to avoid common sense at all costs.

Answer 3

That is the Same question we ask you.

To believe in a Universe that "Just Happened" from a "Big Bang" that came from the "Nothingness" is ludicrous.

You cannot accept that God exist's in Eternity without a beginning, but you can accept the Universe coming into existance from the nothingness. Weird.

Considering this Earth, it's distance from the Sun, Too far away and we freeze, too close we Burn up, a perfect set of seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, .
Water Air, Gravity, an Ecological system, the perfect way that Plants, animals, Ect. all work together, to say that all that and more "just happened? "Ludicious! from 'Chance?" You got to be kidding.

Answer 4

I believe that nonsense because I feel like it. I don't care if you believe it or not. It's your right as believing is mine. I don't ever proselytize. Intellectually I know it's weird ( my minor is in philosophy), but on a different level, I still somewhat have some faith. I've had too many things happen that I can't really attribute to anything else. Some would call it luck–maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

Answer 5

Because to us, it isn't nonsense. And many of us DO have common sense, even where religion is concerned.

Answer 6

I think part of it might be that they were raised to believe and honestly lack the ability to tell the difference. If you started checking out some of the weirdness people believe and the disconnects from reality and *common* sense they need to have to holds those beliefs you would be even more shocked.

Answer 7

A better question is: why does someone else's belief concern you? If it's nonsense, it's their nonsense; so get on with your own life and leave other people alone.

Answer 8

I dont know the answer to that.

Maybe it is the same reason why so many people are offended and spend so much time worrying about something they dont even believe in.

Not much common sense there either.

Answer 9

One day you will regret this statement. I hope you learn the truth before it's too late. I will pray for you.
I am saved and I know that God is real. I personally don't understand how someone could NOT believe in God-that is nonsense!

Answer 10

2 Timothy 4:3 talks about a time when people will not put up with the healthful teaching but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumlate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled....and vs. 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories.......vs.5 you, though, keep your sences in all things....

Answer 11

"Why do people fail to use common sense where religion is concerned?"

Perhaps it is because "common" sense is a misnomer. Sense is not as "common" as it is purported to be. That's why you have to check with people who have some back up to their claims of intelligence like Dr. Francis S. Collins.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980. Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."