something that will make all religious followers see the truth of their beliefs.
can it be done?
i know we have had some success.
does anyone have any suggestions?
btw
before anyone says live and let live, religions have a large impact on society in many facets- from door knockers to suicide bombers, so why cant atheists be free to evagelise what we think is right.
2007-07-25 00:58:15 · 17 answers · asked by brassmunkiee 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
why can't atheist be free to say what they want to ridicule religions?
we can!
faith is a strong adversary protecting religion - it won't lie down by itsself - it's a stubborn donkey of an adversary. you need something to fill a hole the size of a promise of paradise, and feelings of superiority caused by the conciet that all others are less valid spiritually than you if you wish to attempt to replace religion and succeed.
i have attacked blind faith, 'sola fide' religions being the stubbornest and most severe of the adversaries arranged in front of us.
attacking anything makes you relative to it which is metaphysically useless - you have to propose an alternative.
You cannot convince a child eating too much ice cream is bad for your teeth without giving him a sugar free snack which he thinks is tasty to replace it with - he'll get stubborn, actively try to stop you taking his ice cream, start to cry, lash out, give you a guilt trip, and if you just nick his ice cream. - With nothing for him - he has lost out, and to boot you are the bad one picking on a child.
the same respect we hold for giving children that metaphorical ice cream in life is somehow also given to the religious in their beliefs - The events set in motion on 11th Sep 2001 catalysed in my mind that time is over. yuo are damned right to say "before anyone says live and let live" damned right!
Opening minds to a valid alternative is the answer.
I have learned that people cannot stop doing what they see as loving without replacing it with another form of loving - you can't replace religion with atheism. (Athiesm comes along by no longer believing, it's a natual consequence, not a replacement). You have to replace religion with something real - something real that the output of which is so loving or so moral or so valueable or of such quality that it can fill such a void as one left by the absence of a paradise, that it can make people give up thier place in heaven.
what can fill that hole is Good itself it's Value, it's Morality, all Quality - and the active pursuit of an increase in both it's quantity, density and speed.
That's is what you replace religion with, no longer would the quality done by the religious be limited by their promise of paradise. instead EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER.would be known by everyone (the buddhists could tell you that but they "let it be"- but some aren't actively fighting for it they satisfied with knowing the battle was always won).I would love everyone to stop not knowing this
how ironic then that i have spent years searching for a life aspect that tunred out to be one of the first things i was ever told by my mom when i was a baby: "BE GOOD" she said and it may've taken me several decades to realise the scope of my mom's constant request and to construct a working understanding of how to do so in a fashion i consider enough, but i'm there.
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Quality only - It's religion updated for the modern era. We need no fallacies like religion attached to what we intrinsically know. - if what is good is not glaringly obvious as it damned well often is, then I already have a valueable analytical framework for analysis that can differentiate the patterns of good and deal with the close calls and it is damned effective far more so than looking for a passage from the bible to help.
i think the wrong in religion is dying already but perhaps this is why fundamentalism seems on the increase it's the 'final flurry' of something dying backed into a corner and boy! has it got my attention. I won't stand by and suffer the effect of its death throes. i'll help to limit it's effect in those death throes.
50 years I reckon, that how long it often seems to me to take for quality information to get round to everyone "knowing it". 50 years before the death of religions' grip on how we live our lives. 50 years of fundamentailism affecting in the meantime my personal output will be as high quality as i can muster so everything gets better faster for us before we kill that idea with a better one. - GOOD!
Be,well.
Buff
2007-07-25 02:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by . 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2013-12-01 02:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is one of the following three.
1. Did you know that the edible consumption of "herbal" brownies is completely Biblical?
2. What do you suppose Bob Marley meant by "The more people smoke herb the more Babylon fall"?
3. I love you unconditionally, man. Do you love me unconditionally? Why or why not?
2007-07-25 08:28:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is religion so afraid of the female gender that men crushed them to the lowest and wouldn't let them speak?
2007-07-25 08:05:35 · answer #4 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why? That's the most important question, which not many seem to have a singular, unanimous answer to.
2007-07-25 08:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by Gaymes Last Orchestra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the meaning of life?
2007-07-25 08:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by independant_009 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it's 'why'. And many people also have difficulty answering that question at times.
2007-07-25 08:06:27 · answer #7 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read this quote recently.
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus
2007-07-25 08:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most important question ever is this.........'What the hell did this world do before beer was invented?'
2007-07-25 08:02:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has the right to believe in what they think is right, that's our freedom and free will. You can serve God or you can live a sinful life, it's your choice.
2007-07-25 08:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋