I was just wondering when the tides of change will wash over all these insane religions there are in the world.
THE QUESTION >>>
What could be said that would make someone truely embarressed to admit their belief in god, allah, jesus, mohammed etc?
I am just curious, because i thought mankind was living in the year 2007 and not the stoneage.
thanks for any enlightening answers. and for those who say "my god/allah/jesus/ (insert name of self proclaimed messiah) is real... " - please provide credible evidence. "Its in the bible/koran" does not wash!
2007-07-15 19:54:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Eds, with all due respect. How can you possibly have a physics major AND believe in god? The delussions certainly go quite deep.
2007-07-15 20:34:57 · update #1
Physics class.
Eds: So, you're an intelligent idiot then?
2007-07-15 19:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by Patrick 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The fastest way to get religious people on the offensive is to call us "delusional." If you wanted a real answer, why weren't you a bit more respectful? That you can't understand why we believe what we believe is typical. That none of our explanations would hold any water for you is perfectly understandable. What would make you believe in God? Him coming down to you and saying, "Hey, I'm God, I'm real! Worship me!"?
What I know is this: I was a skeptic for ALL of my life (since I was five) until God got ahold of me two years ago and started to change my heart. I'm a brand-spanking-new Christian, of less than nine months.
There is NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING that you or anyone else could say that would turn me back. It isn't that my mind isn't open, because it is. It's because I've seen too much, and experienced too much, to possibly think of giving up my beliefs.
Trying to convince me that there's no God is like trying to convince me that the color I've chosen as my favorite is WRONG. Believing in God, or NOT believing in God, is a matter of OPINION. And you're not going to be changing anyone's opinion, and neither is anyone else.
We will all find out whether there's a God or not when we die, for sure, but I don't think we'll find out a moment before that. Only the dead know if there's an afterlife or not...and the dead don't usually talk. (Disclaimer: This is NOT a reference to Pascal's Wager.)
2007-07-16 03:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A miracle!
I have no idea why people choose to believe weird stuff, but I know that it does not take much for superstitions and bizarre stuff to become entrenched in societies.
Just look at all the UFO believers and Astrology or Psychic supporters.
These all function just like religions in only depending on faith and no evidence or lack of it will ever matter to them. They rise and fall as fads but never seem to die.
Only by educating people in how to evaluate evidence and about mental coercion methods do we have even the slightest hope of reducing the moon-bat craziness that drives religion and all the other pseudo sciences.
Eds, the bible says there is water on the other side of the sky, that stars can fall to the earth and that the Sun goes around the Earth. I really doubt if you can honestly reconcile that with physics.
2007-07-16 03:08:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You are wasting your time. People are afraid of dying and therefore "ceasing to exist". Religion provides them with a belief in an afterlife, a continuation. It also provides them with a belief that someone "up there" who is very powerful is looking out for them, which makes them feel safe (from what I am unsure). If their lives are unbearable, it gives them hope that they will be "rewarded" for the suffering they endured during their lifetimes.
Also (and what rankles most), it provides them with that all-important "forgiveness", which tends to negate any need to take responsiblity for their actions (after all, if their god forgives, shouldn't other people?). That is why so many prisoners on death row "find god", and then try to use their conversion to have their sentences commuted.
What can you possibly offer them in the way of knowledge that would make them give all of this up?
2007-07-16 03:19:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
a book of the history of the people why the people did thier jobs the players and the played - words of truth cradelled in a web of feelings an explination from the prospective of a child
mix things up
cats - pyrimids- 9lives - cast system - eveloution - roman termanaition - current state of play - currently the evil are under a curse?
2007-07-16 03:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by zoe r 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
everyone wants proof but yet wont except what is given. no matter what your told your still gonna feel how you do till God gets a hold of you. i cant think of anything that would turn me away from God. I'll give you a few examples from my life, but you will still call it everything but from God.
as a child i had the curve in my back (forgot name) mom had the church pray over me and the next time the school did the test it was not curved anymore.
i had a pituitary tumor, my family had their church family pray for me, yrs later when got MRI the tumor was not there.
depressed, self injurious, felt i had no hope, got on my knees after 4 months of living that way and God took the depression away. anti depressants couldn't do it, counselors couldn't do it.
prayed for new car, got it. prayed for better paying job, got it. this has taking place in a time frame of about 2 months. (maybe less) ok theres some of my proof, so now enlighten me of what that is since how you don't believe in God. who answered my prayers? the prayers of the ppl that prayed over me and for me? who is responsible for the protection and blessing Ive received?
2007-07-16 03:11:16 · answer #6 · answered by warrior*in*the*making 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No rational argument can defeat deeply-held faith. About the only effective thing for many would be dying and discovering that what they expected to happen didn't. Religious or not, I can pretty much guarantee that will be the outcome for everyone, hehe! Don't you agree?
2007-07-16 02:59:26 · answer #7 · answered by AmigaJoe 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi maxie,
Our GOD inspired the writing of HIS HOLY WORD. All TRUTH is contained in it. If you want to read, study, and obey it then you too may have an opportunity to go to Heaven. I doubt that you will be able to do so. It appears to me that you will be one who follows satan and ends up with him for all of eternity. The truth of the matter is that all science has been confirmed in the Bible long before you and I were born. It is sad that you are too proud to listen to reason. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
Eds
Patricka,
I am a Physics Minor. Physics does NOT prove the BIBLE as being wrong. In fact what I have seen in science proves that the HOLY WORD of GOD is TRUTH!
Eds
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2007-07-16 02:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by Eds 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
It wouldn't be uninformed questions such as this one from a person who is ignorant ( no offense intended, just stated a fact as I see it) as to what religion is all about.
Do you know Jesus?
2007-07-16 02:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by kenny p 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Nothing. Absolutely nothing you can say or do will cause me to renounce my belief in God and my faith in Jesus Christ!
2007-07-16 02:56:56 · answer #10 · answered by doppler 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋