Because I'm intrigued by space, the universe, and astrology, I was over at Space & Astrology just now. A person, probably a young person had asked how the universe was created, and guess what a good three-quarters of the answers were.
2007-07-25 10:31:36 · 17 answers · asked by Yank 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NOT 'ASTROLOGY' BUT...
2007-07-25 10:42:15 · update #1
It only proves that three quarters of the people who answered the question were ignorant of the facts.
2007-07-25 10:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, you mean the ignorance of the religious folk.
Do you mean the ignorance of those who believe that the pedophile catholic priests are actually "men of god?" Or are your referring to the traditional end of century prediction of the end of the world? Or maybe you are referring to the error made by the monk who calculated the birth of Jesus Christ having him born in 4 B.C.? Or maybe you are talking about the ignorance of the whole idea of live after death proposed by the Christian Church? The actual event will be with the dead are raised to fight the ultimate battle against the Anti-Christ at judgment day. The survivors will be brought into heaven (if judged fit). So does that mean if I die and old man and so don't make a good soldier on judgment day that I will die on the field and so not make it into heaven?
What I don't like is the ignorance of the religious folk who claim that their religion and the special book associated with it offer all the answers to the world and all of its problems. Even after that book has been proven to contain errors (the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth). They still cling to it.
Science doesn't know everything. For example what there was before the big bang and what caused the big bang. I don't think that the laws of chance could be so lucky as to produce the race of man, but then it took billions of years to do it. I don't know everything and I am willing to have an open mind and listen to new ideas. Religious folk don't, they have their nifty book with all the answers and they can quote (or tailor) any passage from it to prove that they are right. You can't prove something is correct with that something as your only source. The only other source they have is faith and faith is the belief in something that can't be proven.
If Jerry Fawell rose from the dead tomorrow and told us all of the joys of heaven if we would only follow Jesus’ teachings then I would listen. Of course we all know that won't happen. Sure God was supposed to have done it once, but there is some evidence that even the resurrection was not a real event. There was a herbal poison that could mimic death available, the apostles could have just stolen the body, there are a lot of other possible explanations. We will never know the truth. But, the religious folk won't admit that or even look at those possibilities because that defeats their religion and rules their world invalid.
When science proved that the sun did not revolve around the Earth it was revolutionary and a major change to science, still we accepted it and worked with it. Quantum Mechanics doesn't work with Classical Physics, the two don't agree, yet each hold together in their own world. That revolutionized science, but it didn't destroy science. We learned this, adapted to it and now working to figure out what the problem is. Religious folk won't even tolerate the idea of an error or minor change in their religion that is why there are so many flavors of Christianity.
The ignorance of the past of the Christian Church is appalling. Martin Luther started The Reformation because he wrote a paper objecting to the public and obvious sins of the church; like selling the sexual favors of nuns or selling indulgences; permission to sin. He wrote one note and posted it on the door of Saint Marks. It would have ended there with a minor discussion if not for Guttenberg who published the list in a book and by including a portrait of Martin Luther made him the most well known and recognizable figure of his day. Science did that, not religion.
What gets me the most is how perfect the religious folk think their religion is when there is nothing in our world that is perfect. Yet somehow they have all the answers. They also ignore the previous religions, all which try to explain the origins of the world and the important questions of where we came from and why we are here. The Egyptians got it wrong, the Greeks got it wrong, the Norse got it wrong, the largest religion; Hinduism doesn’t make sense to me or most Christians, yet the religious folk of various religions think that that they have it all right and all perfect and that their one book will explain everything. They are just as convinced as the clerics of Islam, the Priests of Greece, the God Kings of Egypt, and the warrior priests of the Norse. If they all got it wrong then why do they have it perfectly right, so right that the book is perfect and doesn’t need to be updated? One-thousand years from now Christianity and Islam may be looked upon as quaint religions a full of errors and mistakes as all the ones that came before them. But, the religious folk are blind to this and refuse to see it. They have proof, all from one book and all from the words of pedophile priests, people like Jim Baker and other deeply flawed people. Oh no, they wouldn’t lie to us. That is the same blindness that let the Germans who lived near the Nazi Death Camps go on with their day to day lives ignorant of what was happening next door.
No, I am not comparing religion to Nazism, but some of them get bad enough to approach them. I think that the Bible lays down the foundation of all modern laws and that Jesus set an excellent example of how to live a person’s life. There is some good in religions, but not their blindness.
2007-07-25 11:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee I don't know ...... GOD!!
Its so funny how every time you ask a question about something everyone always says because God wanted it that way. Its almost as if they say to them self's Hmmm.... I don't know the answer to that so instead of trying to figure something out why don't I just say God did it!
Bring on the hate mail!
2007-07-25 10:58:15 · answer #3 · answered by lindseygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance always has a use-by date--once all the people on earth agreed with the Bible that the Earth was flat,fixed & immovable. Facts changed that.
2007-07-25 10:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by huffyb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because a lot of people believe in religion, it doesn't necessarily make them right.
Bill Maher called it "Insanity by consensus". Perhaps a little harsh but pretty accurate.
2007-07-25 10:38:04 · answer #5 · answered by blooz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately most still live under the beliefs instilled in them as children. They were threatened with burning in hell forever if they didn't 'believe'. Rational and common sense cannot remove that fear. I really feel sorry for them.
2007-07-25 10:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They spend their time studying a book of fairy tales and no time on the facts of this world. How can there be anything but ignorance?
2007-07-25 10:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were looking at ASTROLOGY??!! You're a real atheist man of science i see.
2007-07-25 10:42:39 · answer #8 · answered by skot302002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll look. But don't you mean astronomy. astrology is almost the opposite.
Anyway was it God?
2007-07-25 10:36:12 · answer #9 · answered by hog b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In case you didn't know, God also created the FM radio. The FM stands for "F*cking Magic".
2007-07-25 10:38:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋