2007-09-12 05:53:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no not childish. comforting, reasuring the adult version of a safety blanket. but I still don't believe.
2007-09-12 08:11:40 · answer #1 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that "childish" is the proper term, but irrational beliefs are generally the sign of an undeveloped intelligence.
Most believers simply cannot face the fact that if you say something is "real," it must actually exist in "reality" -- not merely in your imagination. For example, love is something we all (hopefully) experience in our lives. This does not mean love is "real," or that it "exists." Love is a concept, an abstraction used to describe an emotion. Love does not exist in objective (physical) reality. Neither does God.
2007-09-12 13:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, as a child it's been said to be productive for the child's personality developement... of course, when that child reaches mature age and still believes in such things, I suggest it's time to call in the psychiatrists.
Add to that, having an almighty imaginary friends does show a tendency towards megalomania.
2007-09-12 13:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that many people brought up in a society that treats the concept of God as at least a potential truth (which lets face it, can't be denied, however unlikely you think it may be) are likely to have faith in it.
I'm guessing your opinion is that religion should be treated the same as fairy-tales? Maybe it should, but you could articulate it less childishly than just poking fun and stirring trouble.
2007-09-12 13:23:31 · answer #4 · answered by guest 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because fantasy and fiction are often found in the child's imagination and that description, of course it is. But the reality of it is this - it is spiritually mature to know the reality of God in your life, and, that is no fantasy. God IS reality. All of it. And anything out of reality is NOT real and NOT in God.
2007-09-12 13:02:25 · answer #5 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
On the contrary. I think it is childish to insist that no entity can be greater than oneself.
It takes maturity for a person to accept that Someone knows more and is more powerful than s/he is, and that s/he owes his/her very life to that Someone's Mercy and Grace.
2007-09-12 13:02:17 · answer #6 · answered by HayatAnneOsman 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I'd like to see you ask the same question before God on judgement day.
2007-09-12 13:13:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is rather like a child believing in Santa Claus, yes. The parallels are quite striking - the need to be good, the fact that you never see him, the fact that he is the embodiment of goodness, the fact that he lives in an invisible realm, and so on. God is Santa Claus for grown-ups.
2007-09-12 13:00:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
My God LOVES me--
what is a fictional God?
2007-09-12 13:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 7⤊ 3⤋
I do not think its childish at all. I think its extremely dangerous.
2007-09-12 13:28:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋