Is one really "mature" if they havent yet grown past religion?

Question

Does anyone who clings to religious mythology really have the right to call themselves mature? Seriously...

Answer 1

Intellectually and morally mature? No.

Answer 2

Children stop believing in things like Santa between 6-8 years of age; about the same time that their brains begin to understand and manipulate language (that is why they love to make up and say funny compound words like ‘butt-head’, etc.). It is a phase in human cognitive development when we begin to distinguish between imaginary- and the reality-based worlds.

It is a testament to the power and influence of organized religion that it has developed strategies that override normal brain development and retard the intellectual and emotional maturation process of so many people. Every Theist with a normal brain must have doubts about their faith and question the reality of their God because of the total absence of any fact-based evidence supporting their beliefs.

Fundamentalists (whether Christian, Muslim, or whatever) take self-delusion and denial of reality to pathological extremes. Every educated person in the world knows that evolution and the established age of the earth are facts just as real as gravity and electricity. However, the conservative faithful blindly deny what is clear for all to see. They falsely claim to be scientifically literate, yet they fabricate and believe false evidence even as they refuse to see the physical reality that is right in front of them.

It comes down to their acceptance of an epistemology that effectively denies the possibility of true objective human knowledge based on the study of empirical evidence. How else can you explain their insistence on teaching as science the folktales and mythological beliefs of quasi-historic tribes of semi-nomadic illiterate Semitic goat herders who lived thousands of years ago and who thought that the earth was flat with air above and water below?

Answer 3

Does anyone who lives to poke fun at religious people ever grow up. All those jabs at the religious group is behavior akin to school age children. Which now begs the question, what will you be when you grow up? How can atheist proclaim that they have cornered the market on maturity, and now wish to lecture others why they fall short. Is reckless morality the scale of meaure used to gage others and the way they choose to worship? Where does it end? I know, you folks will pick up where Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler left off.

Answer 4

Maturity can be defined in many different ways. Many who cling to God and religion may never mature in an intellectual sense because they effectively have stopped growing. Unfortunately this can also affect other development because they develop an inaccurate and closed minded view of the world around them

Answer 5

i'm not religious by any sense of the term and i find this question pretty ridiculous and immature. being religious doesn't make you any more or less mature. i've known several religious individuals that were very mature and well rounded. just because there are a lot of ignorant fundamentalists out there doesn't mean all theists are immature. i don't think religion defines maturity.

sure there are an enormous number of people out there that sport whatever religion it is they follow and do a great job of making themselves look like fools because of their incendiary remarks of the non religious, outrageus claims, and ridiculous blind faith. i would say THOSE people are immature. but they aren't all like that.

Answer 6

Do u mean the stories of the Old Testament? If so, they r full of moral lisons.

Last Friday i learned about maturity. Spiritual Maturity is when u start reading or listening to sermons about mature things like about Jesus in the Jewish feasts, or about inspiration of the Bible, or the history of the Bible. Things which r considered to b Theology.

Spiritual maturity is reading and caring much about God's love, or the cross, or His death and so. Such things would attract u to believe in God by the Holy Spirit, but not to know much about Him, or about Christianity.

Good Lick!

Answer 7

Yes, I think so. They believe in their convictions and they are convinced that such and such is true. For instance, Jesus was a real person. I totally believe he performed miracles. It's called FAITH and I don't happen to have the same faith as Pat over here, or maybe John over there. A mature person would accept that others have faith that they themselves lack. They will simply respect the differences and move on. I don't happen to be a Christian despite believing that he performed miracles. I simply don't believe he was the Son of God since I don't believe there is an omnipotent God.

Answer 8

It is true that religion can be a crutch but so too can skepticism and scientific relevance.

A person is mature when they can fully rely on themselves for their needs. Having something one can believe in is a basic need. So having a religion can be very mature.

Answer 9

Indeed, IMPure religion arrives defiled and then gets worse.
But "pure religion" arrives undefiled and remains unspotted.

I intend to remain unspotted from your sort of 'mature',
the $ort of adult-ery many old law vs law adults cling to;
saying they know, but later ask forgiveness for know not.
They also teach first and learn after: preposterous order.

Flush the seriously... and lighten up, above such law law.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 10

I think so. It took me a while until I started to follow Jesus and not religion. I believe the Bible is true. I believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior. You have your free will. And an important decision to keep.

Answer 11

Yes. All people, even mature ones, employ psychological defense mechanisms. Religion is essentially denial. As long as it doesn't cripple the person in other areas of life, it's a viable way of getting by.