"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11.
I think this quote sums up religion in general perfectly. Any thoughts?
2007-08-24 14:15:10 · 19 answers · asked by Pauls Imaginary Friend 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nice quote. This is exaclty what does not happen in religious movements - religious 'leaders' indoctrinate the younger generations and then they carry this emotional baggage into adulthood where the guilt complex they have had ingrained into them by their elders remains and retains some of its potency.
This is why ongoing generations fear Hell, they fear being judged at the Pearly gates, they harbor hate towards those who do not share their views and they start and propagate wars among opposing beliefs (Muslim, Christian - choose your poison, they are all as bad).
This is why I believe religious indoctrination of the young is tantamount to child abuse.
Just look online for the creation museum - how is taking your child to this junk science 'exhibit' not child abuse?
2007-08-24 14:18:42 · answer #1 · answered by struds2671 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I don't see any irony - the Apostle Shaul realized after the scales fell from his eyes - meaning he could see the truth clearly and no longer would desire any true believer's cloths be laid at his feet while they were stoned - and/or etc. ...
The Apostle Shaul simply realized that there was no time to do stupid things once you come to the understanding of the truth - it is time to pick up your yoke and follow the messiah where ever he tells us to go and to be a man with a back bone about it.
Where do you fit any irony in here?
I don't see any religion with any real understanding whatsoever out there doing any righteous works. They break the sabbaths - they condone warfare by allowing their parishners to pick up arms and kill those they don't even know - they hand out condoms instead of preaching that you shall not fornicate or comit adultery - or allow a man to lay with a man the way a man lays with a woman ... nor allowing any woman to lay with a woman as it is against nature and causes confusion ... diseases and / or etc.
The churches have no understanding whatsoever to act like a man - as they have no knowledge or understanding of the truth - and the truth = the law of Yahweh ... short and simple -
Read Isaiah 24:1-6 and tell me what irony you see there ...
Hope this helped your understand a thing or two ...
Peace;
Aintmyfault
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2007-08-24 22:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by aintmyfault 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children are good at being curious. It's all "Why? Why? Why?" and when you become an adult you watch FOX and figure you know it all. When you think and act as a child, it is like you want knowledge, so you ask WHY?! and it IS ironic, since the so-called scholars of religion say one should not question the scriptures....
Just be curious. Dark matter is out there somewhere.
2007-08-24 21:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by beztvarny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get your point, but many would argue that spiritual perception is the realm of the mature, not materialism (the philosophical meaning), including me. Materialism would be the milk, the concreteness of childhood, while spirituality would be the meat (sorry to offend any vegans; it's just an illustrative simile), the spiritual discernment of the mature. We have to have teeth, like incisors (pun intended), to process meat.
2007-08-24 21:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you call believing in the one that saved your soul childish, then yeah. However, as a adult, one can think as a adult, and examine other things, as i have, and i seem to have found those to be the childish ways, so, i must be a man
2007-08-24 21:36:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess when I put away religion, I was doing God's will. So Atheist are the only true followers.
2007-08-24 21:41:44 · answer #6 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it silly to blanket together thousands of vastly different beliefs held by billions of individuals.
Respect others rights and they will do they same for you.
2007-08-24 21:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by ✡ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"If there be any mistake in the Bible, there may well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth."
2007-08-24 21:23:20 · answer #8 · answered by Phate 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sum total of man's desires and man's abilities is only realized in loving relationship with his creator.
god bless
2007-08-24 21:21:40 · answer #9 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Paul says he now understands things better since He has matured. He isn't using child in the sense of children, but as less mature.
2007-08-24 21:20:02 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋