if I was inventing a religion, I'd make "don't think about it!" one of the main principles.
funnily enough, lots of real religions have that idea, too....
a Christian answerer just told me:
"you must not be christian if you have to think about it that much."
I guess so.
thinking? too much? the shame!
oy.
2007-09-26 19:49:39 · 21 answers · asked by hot.turkey 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my example was from a Christian - but the question is the same for all religions.
does your religion tell you "don't think"?
if so ... think about it!
2007-09-26 20:00:33 · update #1
You shouldn't generalize problem of christianity with other religions..Actually, its trinity that screwed chraitianity
2007-09-26 19:53:49 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I consider myself quite a thinking intellectual and a digger for truth... yet am a Christian.
However faith is a requirement, the dictates of a just God, therefore if you want to think your way into religion you will fail. It is more of a try it and see thing. Why are so many antis afraid to even try? I tried it and now am no longer a believer but a knower... the same is true for anybody who seeks with all their heart... who are willing to try and hope to find out later. It is a choice, not something you do because of overwhelming evidence. Often those who do receove evidence still do not believe because it is simply something they don't want to do.
John 3: 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
2007-09-26 19:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually God wants his people to seek knowledge! He does NOT want His people to walk in "blind faith". Just because a person makes a claim to be a "Christian" does not make him one. (A rose by any other name is still a rose)
Here are some things that God says about knowledge:
Hosea 4:6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
Pr 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out.
Pr 21:11 - When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; when a wise man is instructed, he gets knowledge.
These quotes are just a sampling of what the Lord says about knowledge & WISDOM...(which some people can gain from acquiring knowledge...)
The Lord our God wants people to LEARN of Him, to seek Him with all their hearts, MINDS, soul and strenght.
He wants people to discover the TRUTH about who He is and what He wants from us, and How VERY much He loves us. Too many people out there professing to be "Christians" just have NOT taken the time to READ their own Bibles. (Now THAT is a shame!)
2007-09-26 20:05:56 · answer #3 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but there is room, in many religions, for the unthinking approach.
(as there is in politics, sport, fashion... it's not a religious dig, just an observation)
There's also the opposite approach with deep, convoluted and learned thought growing from religion. Reams and reams of theology. Libraries of books.
(I keep a modest five-foot shelf-full of theology and philosophy)
Starting from the basic assumptions of religion, immense structures of thought can be, and have been, built upon them.
Thought and unthought can both be routes into, and based on, religion.
2007-09-26 20:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generally, no. If you were to amend that to say that religion is incompatable with thinking about certain things, that claim would be more accurate.
I just listened to a guy insist that the physical laws of the universe were in some way "different" than they are now. He did not cite a single piece of evidence, just made the flat claim. No thinking involved at all. No research. Nothing. Just "it fits with what it says in the Bible" and nothing further.
Plainly religion puts heavy blinders on thinking. Predigested answers only.
2007-09-26 19:54:58 · answer #5 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
in case your faith says "evolution won't be able to have occurred," then your faith is incompatible with evolution. in addition, if it says "the sky is yellow", it is incompatible with a blue sky. in case your faith denies any elementary, observable certainty, then your faith is incompatible with certainty. If, in spite of the shown fact that, your faith says "evolution did take place" or "we don't probable care approximately evolution one way or yet another", then your faith is nicely matched with evolution. Evolutionary biology says no longer something in any respect approximately faith, different than beginning off the background of existence in the worldwide. some religions have their very own concepts approximately how existence got here approximately, yet that's a non secular concern, no longer a concern with evolution.
2016-10-09 22:00:53 · answer #6 · answered by lints 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not incompatible.
You need to think if you're following a false religion.
You need to think if someone asked you about what you believe in.
You need to think how much you're going to give for a donation.
You need to think when you're reading the scriptures.
You need to think in order to say the right prayer.
If you take the thinking out of religion, I don't know where this religion is heading to.
2007-09-26 20:03:26 · answer #7 · answered by oregonboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear hot turkey,
It would be silly to base one's beliefs and one's eternal destiny without having put thought into it. i'm not sure what the context of that gentelemen's comment was and please do know that on yahoo answers, there are a lot of people who call themselves Christians who when you hear them speak and ask them about their believes- teaches things that are not Biblical.
Christianity on the contrary instructs people to know what they believe- that is why Christians are encouraged to study the Bible. "Don't think about it," is not a principal of Christianity. There is a difference between ignorance and faith. Faith has a component of trusting God- but it is not completely blind and without sense.
Kindly,
Nickster
2007-09-26 20:10:13 · answer #8 · answered by Nickster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all Augustine of Hippo was a great philosopher as was Thomas Aquinas.
Even John Paul II was a rare philosopher in a modern world. He was the first pope to visit a mosque.
2007-09-26 19:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sad thing is, most 'prophets' are pro-thinking. It is the people who corrupt their teaching after they die that cause a religion to be formed.
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
~ Prophet Muhammad
EDIT: I'm an Atheist but you make me ashamed to admit it. Have you EVER studied the teachings of the religions or do you just follow the teachings of other Atheists without finding out for yourself? Do you think for yourself or do you trust intellectual Atheists to do your thinking for you?
2007-09-26 19:54:05 · answer #10 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It took much thought for man to orchestrate a religion.
2007-09-26 19:57:52 · answer #11 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋