Basically the ones who can not deal with the fact that there may be a possibility that when they die there will be nothing at the end.They are not brain washed, i think they are just missing a gene. If there is a gene for having an open mind, an introspective logical thought process. Any religious person in my opinion is missing this for sure. They ask the same questions as others, why are we here?, what happened when we die? etc.... but the firing mechanism of the brain inevitably leads them to a blind ally, which frightens them and leaves them no option but to look for a higher explanation, eventually they will adopt the predominant religion within their community, or any other one that makes sense to them, depending on how much research they put into this task.
In the end they make camp in this blind alley, and do some decorating, awaiting to be rescued some day, This is good for them. If it makes them happy who am i to argue! Just don't try to decorate any of my alleys!!!!
2007-08-13 15:48:53 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just because you have this so called warm fluffy blind faith inside you. Don't call me closed minded!!! I will gladly embrace your warm fluffy faith. As long as the existance of god is scientifically proven beyone all reasonable doubt!!!!
2007-08-13 16:08:41 · update #1
Think so. I have "3" PhD's, am of Faith, and I have so many other diplomas the university had to use "document sheet" to list my "degrees" yet I am missing a gene and logical thought processes ? Weak minded ? Blind ? etc., etc.
Seems to me you aren't INTELLIGENT enough to even wipe my nose much less make a judgement of my CHARACTER and to be NICE will leave it at THAT............
2007-08-13 16:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Impossible.
God was invented so long ago that the concept couldn't have come from the motivations you list.
Science was born of the curiosity of the religious about reality. It was only recently that science came up with its current method that requires falsification.
It may be true that fear of death is the current catalyst for belief, but there are many others that don't involve that particular fear.
Religion started out as an appeasement of fear, that is true, but it was the fear that the rain wouldn't come, or that it would never stop- that sort of thing. It was born of the fear of the winds and the lightning.
The first evidence of a spirituality of man that has been uncovered was the body of an ancient humanoid that was buried with the skull of the animal that killed him.
Pantheism was perhaps the first form of religion, and when it gained belief, there was no logical way to argue against it. It is not wise to see our ancestors as being somehow stupid for their invention of religion because it was the mental ability to understand cause and effect that led to it.
Without that, we wouldn't be who we are today.
But what encouraged the religious industrial age, and the power that religion wielded were the institutions that gained that power without any sort of actual benefit in kind.
The benefit became something after you die, so that nothing that happened could possibly show any chink in the religious armor. Even science supported this until the discovery of Piltdown man as a hoax led Mr. Popper to demand falsification to any scientific theory.
Not only was this recent, but it was what cast the wedge between science and religion for the first time.
Nowadays, you are correct. But the birth of belief in a god or gods was the inevitable bridge between animal and modern human (such as it is) that Genesis tried to explain.
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2007-08-13 16:05:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you feel the need to criticize people for their beliefs? I always wonder that when people ask these dumbass, closeminded questions with empty logic. You say that religious people have no logic, that's not true. I'm excellent at logic. (This is a fact. I took a class in logic and made a 99. Also, I made a 98 for my yearly average in IB Algebra II.) I'm pretty sure that I have a logical thought process. It also seems that you're the one being closeminded. It seems as if you have completely dismissed the option of an afterlife. Your accusations are just as close minded as the statements made about gay people going to hell and such. You may want to think a little more about what you're saying before you call other people close minded.
2007-08-13 15:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by Chelsea 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that man today has complicated things so much. Most people that are truely religious and read the bible do not ask those questions. They have already been answered. Actually I think That people with your thought process on this are trying to rationalize why they are living the kinds of debotched lives they lead. You sound so eduacated but you missed the whole point of God. All that education right down the toilet
2007-08-13 15:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a person was missing a gene then you still would have to explain the atheists who have converted to faith and visa versa.The fact that you try and pursuade people with your reasoning demonstrates that you really don't believe your own assertion. I also wonder if a person thinks they are somehow better than someone who is self righteous has he not fallen into the same trap?
2007-08-13 15:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Edward J 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a missing gene might just be a bit severe just consider the propaganda of a child in their most vulnerable years brain washed for life and the peer pressure that goes with it . I know I used to be one like that and laugh at how I built mountains of excuses ill founded to support the false postulates I was programed with as a child .
2007-08-13 15:57:26 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm so upset now that the light of day has been thrust upon me and that all that i see around me is easily explained through science and modern philosophy...... here's the but!!! there is no chance in a million , that the odds of this universe being created by chance, verses being from God, would be supported using mathematical probabilities. the person of blind faith that believes that his DNA is from primordial soup with millions of lines of code with no errors and all left handed amino's any error would be fatal to your theory is you. I'm in a pillbox your in a glass house and I'm feeling like spraying lead cause I'm devastated at how stupid i am for thinking some one made me when it is easy to just poo DNA out of any fanny in the cosmos.you are just making me really angry so I'm gonna kill my house plants . my house plants are on your hands dude !I'm gonna start drop kicking jade plants around!
2007-08-13 16:37:35 · answer #7 · answered by go broncos!!! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're calling self-righteous people weak-minded? Higher standards don't indicate a weak mind. I know that God is real, and I know that he loves everyone. Nothing will ever change my mind.
Accepting the gospel is an influential part of eternal and present happiness. I hope that someday it'll be part of your life.
: )
2007-08-13 15:54:40 · answer #8 · answered by : ) 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm an atheist, but I doubt God was invented for weak-minded self-righteous people. There are plenty of those everywhere, not just among theists.
2007-08-13 15:59:44 · answer #9 · answered by Tim Elliot 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe they are brainwashed by the church and their bible, which has been controlling people for generations.There is no room for free thought. My friend asked a question in Sunday school about adultery.. There were some folks in the class that left after they heard the answer..So, to say, if they don't like the answer, they go someplace else that does. Self righteous!
2007-08-13 15:58:58 · answer #10 · answered by Thunderrolls 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋