that "faith" is the substances of things "hoped" for and certain of what you can not "see"
2007-09-30 18:21:11 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do appreciate the honesty from most of you, and let me say now that if I offended you, that was not my intention.
2007-09-30 18:32:41 · update #1
I read some of your answers and sadly this is how our world is. My heart aches for them but I know that there is nothing I could say or do that would open their minds to receive. I was the same way most of my life. I believed that God was on vacation and didn't care about me, sadly it took the death of my brother for me to open my eyes and the willingness to open my heart. I can only pray that no ones ever has to feel the pain I felt loosing my brother, but today I know that his death saved my life.
All you can do is pray for them, it won't hurt them but it will give them hope whether they know it or not.
2007-09-30 18:47:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
In the USA, it's OK in most communities to stay at home or go shopping on Sunday. If some of my neighbors are religious, they will perhaps attend their religious meetings, but they won't expect me to come along. They expect diversity of preference on this subject, and there is no problem. Labeling is not even up for discussion. If I lived in Norway, India or Morocco, there might be a very different situation. I would have some concern about labels. Some of these people have a state religion. If you aren't involved in that, they ask you why.
2016-05-17 22:31:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should they be upset when rationality tell them that 'invisible or imaginary support team' is just that ie an imagined concept which is dysfunctional and has no practical use ?As far as a faith is concerned,atheists have their own faith system which is grounded in to realities and delivers on the ground unlike a religion. You are a looser on this one.Rethink and comeback again.
2007-09-30 18:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes imagining help can calm anxiety. But trouble results when you actually try to depend on it. And expecting results only after you die is a fool's game. I am very happy to have learned to take responsibility for my own life and to seek out real friends to mutually support each other. I see too many "Christians" who are concerned entirely with their own individual "salvation" rather than the needs of their communities.
I hope for a lot of things, like peace and justice, but I'm under no delusion that they will happen if I don't do my part.
2007-09-30 18:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're not upset at anything other than the fact that most people still believe in a human-created belief system that is thousands of years old and needs to be done away with for our civilization to become enlightened to logic and reason instead of supernatural blind faith.
2007-09-30 22:32:25 · answer #5 · answered by GH 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll be honest. Yeah, I feel a little gypped that people merrily go to church and have a sense of greater meaning when I have to be the rainy-day kid making his own future
I love the song Unanswered Prayers. It shows how God is like a crutch for people and they don't even know it. That would be so convenient right about now.
2007-09-30 18:34:29 · answer #6 · answered by MrPotatoHead 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.... I'm upset because religious fanatics are enacting legislation based on their particular faiths and I never agreed to abide by THEIR doctrines and standards.
And I suppose faith IS sometimes the substance of things hoped for... if it's baseless hope. Faith has absolutely NO means of reliably deducting what is true from what is false.
2007-09-30 18:24:20 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 13⤊ 0⤋
Why do I need some invisible dude taking notes on every wrong thing that I do so that he can have an excuse to toss me down into the pit to fry like bacon for all eternity??
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2007-09-30 18:35:38 · answer #8 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would take an invisible support team.
I'd also eat a gallon of ice cream every day if it was true that it was good for me. But I don't believe it's true.
2007-09-30 18:27:33 · answer #9 · answered by blooz 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quite the opposite.
Not being strangled by religious dogma gives one a sense of intellectual freedom.
The need for the comfort blanket of religion is rejected and replaced by self respect and independance of thought.
2007-09-30 19:11:43 · answer #10 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's make a deal: You promise me that nobody ever gets hurt by your religion again, and I'll never discuss it again.
More americans are killed every year by christian opposition to medical progress than by terrorists.
Read Letter to a Christian Nation if you want to understand how harmful your religion is.
In the meantime:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/harm.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_religion
2007-09-30 18:28:09 · answer #11 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋