i dont talk about the attitude religious people have because what they consider their god tells them, i am just talking about believing in a higher entity.
Are we humans able to believe in a higher entity without creating a religion that only serves to label us and separate us from the rest, thus making us the good ones and the rest the bad?
Is the attitude that most religious people have nowadays the logical attitude that derives from the main idea: "there is a god"?
2007-07-25 13:18:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, but you can't be too sure of yourself on anything. And I would not proclaim to know what God wants.
2007-07-25 13:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by poke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most of those people would be confused and feel like fish out of water for a while, but they would eventually pull out of it. I doubt they'd just start killing and stealing, but I'm sure they'd finally start exploring their sexuality more honestly and openly as a healthy non-gullible human being should. I also think that from their perspective, the world would suddenly feel much more colorful, complex and spicy. Both in good and bad way. Morality only depends on how many people are how much happy, but that concerns a lot of prediction of effects of one's actions. That's all morality is about and it gives very different levels of difficulty of estimating how moral an action is. The further into the future you try to guess, the harder it is. This is one of the reasons why religions are so immoral. They claim to predict all the way to infinity, which is impossible and that can't be good.
2016-05-18 05:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by carri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Any kind of belief in any god is simply a waste of time, at the least. The secondary beliefs, besides belief in god, are much more dangerous, but that doesn't mean that belief in god is productive. I think the best possible world, if religion had to be involved, would be a universal belief in god, nothing more profound and irrational than that.
2007-07-25 13:33:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be no reason to believe in a God without having constructed a set of laws that he she or it was supposedly administering. If one wasn't looking for a figure of power, one would not need a belief but merely be satisfied with speculation.
2007-07-25 13:27:31 · answer #4 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i don't think that just believing in god is immediately dangerous. dangerous beliefs include 'there is a god and that's the only way to explain certain features of the universe' or 'there is a god and he wants us to persecute the other'. having said that it seems to be awfully easy (for some people, at least) to go from a generalised, harmless belief in god to a dangerous one.
2007-07-25 13:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean the Biblical god. The Bible is our only source of knowledge about god. He hasn't spoken to me, anyway. So to not believe the Bible is what God's all about is pretty flakey.
Following the Bible, you should kill your children to make God happy. You should kill your neighbor for not believing. You should kill your children for disobeying. And you're not allowed to believe in science. Just depends how you feel about all that, I guess. People who can stomach it, though, are mostly in prison.
2007-07-25 13:24:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope I don't feel its dangerous to believe in a god at all. I think it is just lazy and simple-minded to use an entity to explain the unexplainable. (what happens when we die? how did life begin? etc.)
2007-07-25 13:24:50 · answer #7 · answered by Sleepyriggles 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, it is the old "My daddy can beat up your daddy" to its highest degree.
2007-07-25 13:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by Phartzalot 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋