Explain like I'm stupid:
If you can’t criticize religion unless you are a religious scholar, then you shouldn't accept religion unless you're a religious scholar?
Because deity knows, we don't want to be professing knowledge in any field unless we're certified experts in the subject.
Yes?
No?
Drink?
2007-08-13 14:27:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
@ Utuk: I disagree. Example: It's not necessary to memorize the bible before pointing out that Samson was a suicide killer.
2007-08-14 00:56:56 · update #1
DRINK!
Ha, very good.
As you know, religion should be reserved for only the most special of minds.
2007-08-13 14:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If a 40 year old man told you that you were being held to the earth by invisible purple goblins and that aliens are disguised as politicians you'd probably 1) ask him how he knows the invisible goblins are purple 2) think he's a nutcase or a crackhead. Is he wearing a tinfoil hat? That will help you differentiate. 3) call him a/an (insert vulgar, demeaning title) So, if a 40 year old man told you that there is an invisible gray bearded old man in space that impregnated a chick without having sex and knows and sees everything you, even when you are on the toilet, what then would you do? This is the hypocrisy of people. Religion is not above criticism. And just because someone has made such an ideal a central theme in their life, doesn't make them above ridicule. People should be called out evenly in their idiocy. Religion is no exception. In short, believing in god makes you an idiot. There you have it.
2016-05-17 06:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that just sounds like a complaint. Why should you gain the power to alter something that is entirely beyond your comprehension? Something profound in its intricacies?
Its like letting a baby play with a bomb. That doesn't make sense.
In religious context: you only need to know so much to be a believer. If you want to hammer at the faith, then learn about it. By learning, you're becoming a scholar anyway.
2007-08-13 14:35:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. There is apologetics, and there is polemics. Apologetics means defending your own position - and that is fine, as long as you know what you believe. Polemics is attacking another person's positions. And, if you want to keep from sounding stupid, you should know every intimate detail of the position that you plan to attack. People who know what they believe usually get a certain amount of respect, even among those who disagree. But people who attack a position that they have not even begun to understand are usually perceived as ignorant at best, hateful and bigoted at worst.
As for religious scholars, few exist. Even most pastors are no longer required to study theology... and it shows. The average Christian is almost entirely ignorant of Christian theology.
2007-08-13 14:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is America, and you can criticize whatever you want. Try to stick to the President, and the Muslims, and Communist China, and all the enemies of The Son of Man. It is time for political correctness to end, as many believe we are now in Tribulation. Whether or not you accept Christianity is your own affair, but keep in mind what The End of the World as We Know It means to you.
2007-08-13 14:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't be fooled by them. Jesus did not choose many who are learned but mostly ordinary fishermen.
If God only speak to the learned - not many people will know God in His time on earth or anytime on Planet earth. The literacy in His time was probably less than 5%. And if God only speak to people with education, what kind of a God will that be ? A Intellectual God ? Yes I know one who is an Intellectual God - Satan, the serpent who have Mankind feeds on the Tree of Knowledge until this day.
So. there you got your answer - Intellectualism was started by the father of lies - in the secular as well as in the religious world - the good and evil knowledge.
So , you better wake up and don't look to them as if they as "gods" which they want to to refer to them as , of course!
2007-08-13 14:43:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People criticize things all of the time that they don't understand. But if they are wise then they ask questions instead of jumping to uninformed conclusions and putting them forth as criticism.
2007-08-13 14:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even God criticizes religion, have at it. Religion is man's feeble attempt to reach God. Read the Bible and find out what God's way is. =)
Jesus had more scorn for the religious than any other group, look it up.
2007-08-13 14:31:51 · answer #8 · answered by imaji 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No matter what you do in life and whom you chose to please or not please, someone will criticize.
Might as well be you and explore the things on your heart and mind. Express yourself!
You could remain absolutely quiet through life and still find criticism headed your way.
Don't worry about what others think. You be you!
2007-08-13 14:34:40 · answer #9 · answered by Randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can ANYone profess to be a scholar in a subject when there's nothing to study in the first place?
2007-08-13 14:31:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋