The "live & let live" mantra that so many espouse in here really bugs me.
Theists of any kind provide a base for fundamentalists to build on.
It's like the old adage about pot leading to harder drugs. It dosn't for most, but for many it does. I used to think that line was a load of crap, but life experience has taught me otherwise.
Fundamentalists have a much harder time trying to recruit atheists to their cause than theists.
On top of that, belief in gods, creation and an afterlife is delusional.
Is there any other delusion that we consider acceptable for our loved ones to cling to?
Or do you try and bring them around to sanity?
2007-07-24 02:48:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't it somewhat unhealthy for the bulk of the world's population to believe in delusions?
It certainly is. It's very "unhealthy" for all of those unborn children of people who believe the delusion hat we are all just one big cosmic accident and therefore it's OK to have an abortion if having a child would be inconvenient for you since life doesn't have any eternal meaning to it anyway.
It's very unhealthy for all of those people who come down with sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS because they believe the delusion that there is no God and so if it feels good do it since we are free to live our lives according to what we believe instead of what God has supposedly said.
2007-07-24 03:46:52 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By delusions do you mean the ideological materialism which was responsible for more carnage and violence in the 20th century than ever achieved by any other system of conviction in human history?
2007-07-24 09:59:18 · answer #2 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It's amazing that those who profess to believe in nothing are willing to believe every little story about us" - Dean Koontz
2007-07-24 09:53:47 · answer #3 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is unhealty to believe in delusions, such as evolution, there is no God and etc..
2007-07-24 09:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jim B 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes their are others like love,what is love got to do with it,these are only second hand emotions.
2007-07-24 09:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by mick 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
those who have eyes to see will see the Truth; nothing delusional about it in the least!
2007-07-24 09:54:56 · answer #6 · answered by karen i 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolutionism is a delusion.
Atheism is a delusion.
Paganism is a delusion.
2007-07-24 09:54:38 · answer #7 · answered by Me 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I've found Jesus Christ to be true.
2007-07-24 09:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋