Can you direct an individual towards a website that disproves the fable of Noah's Ark, or that the Shroud of Turin was made in the 14th century, or that DNA more than likely came from comets? How can we, as responsible humans, make sure there is enough valid content to ensure our children will evolve to the next level of humanity?
2007-09-13 11:50:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer to the first question is Probably. The problem is that anyone can post anything and few grain of Golden Knowledge can be easily lost in the Mountains of Mental Poop.
In a way, this can be countered by a site such as this one. You ask a serious question and get many replies that have absolutely nothing to do with your question... yet in the midst (or should I say mist) of confusion, occasionally you find someone who knows what they are talking about.
A few hours with any good search engine will reveal significant answers to your second question, but this has little to do with the beliefs of many concerning the book known as The Book.
The answer to your last question begins with the education of your own children. And allowing them to make their own choices. Humanity is evolving. With or Without any knowledge of the direction(s) that will be taken. Humanity cannot stop this. It will happen.
Some humans will spend their entire lives in an attempt to drive Humanity backward into the Past. Do not stand in the way of a fool and his(her) chosen task. We are mortal and some beliefs will die with the people who hold them as they leave their current physical bodies.
So be optimistic. Humanity will change. We will not forever be locked into the selfish, ignorant and arrogant behavior that has marked us for thousands (millions?) of years.
It is not like this all depends upon you personally. We each seem to play a role. Do what you must because it is your Path. Do not be concerned about those who do not understand. The only person that you can ever change is YOURSELF.
2007-09-13 14:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
You said to correct you if you're wrong.... so I'll correct you If a person dies today & was never a Jehovah's Witness, they WILL have a biblical hope of eternal life because they will probably be resurrected & given the chance to put their life in order with Jehovah's requirements. You also said " a person who died in another religion would have absolutely no hope. Correct?" No that is incorrect. Many people from different religions will be given the chance to conform to God's requirements. That would mean rejecting former false worship. However, those alive at Armageddon who have not changed will be eliminated. Jehovah has always had exclusive rights about the "admittance criteria"... he's Almighty God. And why on earth would he reject his own requirements & allow false worship in his paradise earth? I never give a 'canned answer'
2016-05-18 23:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by annmarie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought an interesting book this morning, "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason," by Sam Harris. He argues that faith is actually dangerous of itself, because it causes people to have a distorted view of evidence and science and reasoning. Faith is generally defined as belief in the absence of evidence, or even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Modern people can't afford such a concept to be taken seriously.
Of course, there are spiritual points of view, and we don't all have to be staunch materialists. But if Faith causes you to devalue logic and reason, and to condemn people who believe differently from yourself as less human, less worthy, then it is hazardous.
Ironically, this leads to the concept that religious tolerance is also dangerous. That is, if someone announces they have Faith in something irrational, and you say nothing, you are giving tacit consent to such irrational concepts. To the very idea that certain nonsense is not to be challenged.
The other thing that we need to promote is the fact that you don't need a religion to be moral or ethical. Indeed, religious morals are often in contradiction to well-reasoned ethics. Religions can tell you it's all right to treat someone else in a way that would otherwise be very wrong if it is for the good of their soul. Lie to them, lock them up, even kill them for the good of their soul.
The Internet will provide enough knowledge if we work on it. It doesn't pop up of itself.
2007-09-13 13:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't see that religion and science are incompatible. The internet will likely change how literally a great many abrahmic people take their religious texts, but that does not equate to a demise of religion.
Besides, why worry about things that do not exist, since you are talking about future discoveries, and everything not proven by science does not exist, right?
2007-09-13 11:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by Beowulf 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's as much disinformation on the internet as factual information. It's up to the individual to sort out which is which. But what the internet does that is unprecedented in history is it gives the common man a means with which to communicate his thoughts to the entire world.
2007-09-13 11:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
with the internet people are able to read and explore the Bible as they have never be able to do before...they can join world wide church services, watch Bible series programs..
With the World Wide Web the Word of God has gone around the world and is available to everyone...
only scoffers and the unbeliever will be interested in the other worthless sites that you mention....
2007-09-13 11:59:34 · answer #6 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your suggested social task is huge...
To completely remove "gullibility" and "brainwashing" from the world by the "Oh Holy Moly Book of Books To End All Books ?!?"
I don't see it happening within the next few thousand years...so...
Unless we get nano-technology to "therapy" peoples illusions and defensive mental walls away...
We're in deep dog doo doo for a while...(The irony being...if there was a God...it would be in His best interests to convince people He "doesn't" exist...
...if He truly cared about Humanity...)
Sucks, don't it...?!?
2007-09-13 12:03:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That would be irresponsible. Nothing from the bible has been disproved. So if your goal is just to make people stupid, go ahead. But people need something to believe in, so religion will never die out.
2007-09-13 11:58:57 · answer #8 · answered by Speak 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The internet provides enough information to insure confusion will continue until kingdom-come my comet slime friend.
2007-09-13 12:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by mikearion 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man IS a religious being> Religion will die when humans no longer exist.
2007-09-13 11:58:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋