I'm curious about something.....?

Question

It appears that the vast majority of people claim a belief in some kind of diety. But what percentage of those people claim this belief just because it's more acceptable to side with a majority? How many sit in churches every week just glancing at their watch and wondering if they will get home in time to see the start of the game on TV? I'm not making accusations and I try to ask this respectfully. Please try to respond in kind.

Answer 1

i would say if they dont really have a belief then they wouldnt be wasting their time ... i think theres an actual belief with most of them .. im sure thers a small percentage that do it for show or do it for selfish reasons like making business contacts tho ..

Answer 2

I think this is a very valid question.

I do believe in a deity, but I can't really explain why. I don't believe in holy books or virgin births or any of the dogma that is often attached to such beliefs, but I have never doubted the existence of a deity despite questioning it. The best I can come up with is "I *think* there is a God, but I have no evidence to support such a belief so I know I could be wrong." I tend to think more like atheists in many respects, so I actually kind of feel like I am going against the grain on both "sides," but I'm always open to new information and with a bit of luck, some day I'll have a real answer. Of course, I might just take a big dirt-nap. Either way, I'll have tried to live an ethical life. I don't do church - I laugh. I can't help it. :-/

Answer 3

I was one of those people that you are describing. I went to church when I felt like it and then waited for it to end so I could go home and do whatever really. I studied ways to disprove the the idea of the existence of a god. Then one day I came across something curious and began to explore it. I found in me this desire to prove something inherent in my own person. I had to disprove to myself that there was something more. That puzzled me. So I went deeper and found so many "religions" and studied many of them. And then one day I went to a church and didn't experience religion but something supernatural, something that was not emotional or anything I had ever experienced before, it was the manifest presence of something so large and great and beautiful I cried. I couldn't believe it I was captivated. Jesus literally became real to me. Not in some vision or some dream, but right were it mattered, in my heart and in my soul. A place were only a God can touch and change. From that day forth I have never been the same. For those that sit in church and experience religion I invite you to come and experience God through His Holy Spirit you will never be the same again. My goodness there is so much that I could tell you but please email me if you would like to know more about what I found and who I have now become through that power of Jesus the Christ.

Answer 4

Actually, the church I follow, is not in my area; thus, I do not attend church.
I used to attend churches, but once the preacher said that when you die, you go to heaven, they've lost me.
Christianity is based on the resurrection. A whole, one-time-event, not on an individual basis. So, if someone on a pulpit is preaching the individual resurrection thing, they are not following true Christianity and I know that that is not the church I want to be in.
Do you know I have never been in a Christian church that did not say that?
The resurrection is the whole basis for Christianity, how can they deny that? That is the climax of the Bible.

Answer 5

Most are lemmings that just go with the flow. They have no clue why they sit there or even what the book says. They only know what a preacher screams at them while they check their watch to see if the game has started yet.

Cause if they actually knew anything about the book to begin with, they wouldn't be sitting in that building, listening to a man let alone doing it on Sunday.

I myself attend no church yet stand 100% for YHWH.

Answer 6

I see alot of this, and it makes me wonder about these people! To me, they are not religious people! It take more than "attending church" to be religious. You've got to know your Lore, understand the meanings behind the stories - even if there are many meanings, etc. Alot of people in the majority religion are there because it's expected of them. They don't know much about it except what they hear from zealots. Because in society, it's expected for people to be of a religion, not very religious people "do the moves" but don't know why. Maybe it's because they don't care, or maybe the religion just never called to them, and they don't have the strength to go against the flow and find what calls to them.

Answer 7

Belief in some kind of a god makes the universe infinite.
If it is not infinite some day it will stop and never occur again.
Without a god one must realize the day will come when they will stop existing for eternity.
Although the foregoing is true religion is so ingrained in people of all walks of life that any alternative is unthinkable.

Answer 8

I became a Christian late in life. It didn't come easy - Churches, preachers, overbearing Christians, and Televangelists were a big roadblock for me. And I have to admit most of my questions could not be answered by the everyday Christian - a shame really.
I would say your claim is possible - I have no way of disputing it.

I don't go to Church much - it is very boring, not intellectually stimulating, and same old sermons/scriptures rehashed.

Answer 9

Thankfully I live in a secular society in which the religious are the odd ones out, but I reckon in more religious societies it's simply a matter of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - just go along with what other people profess to believe, to have an easy life.

Answer 10

You may well be right about the majority but some of us have made a conscious decision often later in life. I know I did. I don't care what the majority believe, only what my heart tells me.

Answer 11

I know my sister is like that. She goes to church (but only since she met her husband, she used to hate church as much as I did) and says things like "I'll pray for you", but she drinks, smokes, parties, and treats people horribly.

The few times we've had spiritual discussions she says the most stupid things that show me very clearly she has an extremely fuzzy concept of what 'God' is all about.