I am an atheist and therefore do not believe in anything supernatural...although may Christians, Muslims etc think that their god is real yet laugh at those who would believe in fairies etc. What makes their god any more real?
2007-09-14 06:52:55 · 12 answers · asked by profileofanatheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
A famous quote from Morgan Freeman starring in "The Big Bounce"
"God is just an adult's imaginary friend."
2007-09-14 07:03:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing their, "God" is actually a deity like Zeus or Odin or Inazuma used to explain things that are unexplainable. i.e. Zeus is the God of Thunder so that is where thunder comes from, which is true, science thinks they proved otherwise but really the just proved that Zeus is very good at chemical reactions and controlling the atoms and small particles that go into creating thunder.
Much like "God" we don't really know how the world was created so we created "God" or Yawhe as he was originally known, and as I like to call him being a personal friend and all, to explain it. By the way he hates being called God it creates problems between him and the other deities he lives with.
Sadly believing in fairies didn't last because it was much harder to see the visage of Oberon on a waffle, where as the visage of Jesus has been painted so often that apparently he can look like any breakfast food. And you can't see Mohamed because nobody knows what he looks like, which is true and he is so above the level of humans no one will ever know what he looks like. It is beyond mortal knowledge. However Ganesh and Indra and Vishnu are pretty open to being painted and sculpted all over the place though they don't do appearances in food it is beneath them, thank god for polytheism. I like having options when I worship.
However fairies have done just as much for culture, as the great deities have and I think they should get their dues. They have influenced literature, film, poetry, movies... Are found on greeting cards and clothes as well as towels and other household items. The tooth fairy for instance is a very famous fairy as is the fairy godmother (really a drag queen). I don't see Jesus on the side of my morning coffee mug smiling at me... Where is he... he's up on a cross looking depressed. Why would I worship such a grisly symbol?
In the beginning fairies were born out of a need to explain the unexplainable and unlike the major religions of the world which deny the magical and replace them with "miracles", every spiritual/mythological system on earth has fairies of some type and most of those have a mermaid or water person of some type too.
The reason religious followers deny the fairy is because accepting it would mean that they are acknowledging that their own "religion" is a myth like every other pantheon ever created by man, which it is. Joseph Campbell proved this and proved that they all fit the classic definition of myth: using stories and deities to explain the unexplainable and as moral tales and lessons on how to act and behave. And if we treated "religions" this way, as myths, we wouldn't have all these stupid religious wars.
Spirituality is a different thing altogether and doesn't require faith or belief in a "god" which by the way is dog backwards. So when I get to where I'm going I'll probably be met by a dacshund at the gates of hell.
2007-09-14 14:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by windowtreatmentofdeath 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I won`t laugh if someone believes in Fairies.I`m a christian and I believe there were unicorns who died in the flood long ago because they were too vain to go into the arc.There were dinosaurs before so there must of been other creatures that we don`t know about.The garden of Eden for example had every single treasure you can think of on it like gold, rubies,and other things that don`t exist here now.Their rivers had gold too.God made the garden to be like heaven.God has put animals into the garden but not every animal was mention in the bible.If they had the talking snake with legs(it have no legs and it can't talk now because of what it did to Eve as a punishment) ,they could of have fairies too.I`m not trying to preach to you lol I just want to say that it is possible that they can be real.
2007-09-14 14:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by sweetpie65 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well the most logical reason is that most gods aren't supposed to be frolicking around the woods where humans can easily stumble across them. Fairies, being material beings, should thus be accessible to the material senses. Deities, being primarily spiritual beings, wouldn't be accessible through the material senses but rather "the spiritual senses" (if one so decides to believe in such senses).
Fairies should leave material evidence of their existence behind; one would not expect the same for a deity. Therefore, what makes god more plausible than fairies is a difference in the sort of proof required for their existence.
To offer a scientific example, Microarrays are used to determine genetic links to expressions. You don't use that to prove or disprove that gravity (on earth) is ten meters per second squared. Different things require different kinds of proof.
2007-09-14 15:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by Thought 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All things that need faith to be viable are completely subjective beliefs. Though there have been many books written about fairies there are none who claim they were written under the influence of Fairies. There is a tragic hubris about those who follow the 3 Biblion (books in Greek) as absolute truth in there many contradictory versions, translations, and editings.
2007-09-14 14:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My feeling is that all cultures of people throughout history have had the liguistic concept of "god". They have all documented the idea of a being larger, wiser, and more powerful than themselves. God is the only concept of a being that all people have, yet have no personal experience of.
If you think of a fairy or a monster, you think of it as having features that are all tangible. People cannot create the concept of a being outside of characteristics they have experienced (personally or through media). But god is the one idea that we cannot prove and yet have some universal understanding of.
2007-09-14 14:09:35 · answer #6 · answered by Melinda S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read St. Anselm in regards to the distinction between the idea of something like a fairy and the idea of God-- and why belief in God remains credible, while a belief in a fairy is not. His arguments are detailed in the "Monologion" and the "Prosologion."
2007-09-14 14:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fairies are usually believed to live in forests on earth. This begs the question of why no-one sees them. God is usually believed to dwell in heaven. Can't see heaven, can't see god. I guess to some people that makes it more plausible.
2007-09-14 23:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cause their god has a holy book, and in that book there is a rule that prohibits doubting the existence of the god that owns the book.
As for doubting the existence of fairies, there is no rule against that.
2007-09-14 14:00:19 · answer #9 · answered by Saint Nearly 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A fairy has not died and come back to life for me.
A fairy has not filled my mind and changed my life.
A fairy has not fulfilled prohecies, nor been seen by over 500 people after being resurrected.
2007-09-14 13:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋