2007-10-15 20:10:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most religions would immediately self-destruct.
To be fair you'd have to add more, make it about critical thought. After all, religious people can think, they're just bound within certain frameworks. If you really believed thinking about some things could end up causing you an eternity of torture you might shy away from them, too.
2007-10-16 01:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it is not think , In all my time on here I can quite honestly say that not one christian answer I have ever seen or had ,had been straight from the individuals own thought on the matter or their own interpretation ,it is either a psalm verse or a paragraph taken totally at leisure and twisted into the situation at hand to answer.eg. Do you believe in god? The holy father almighty condemns those who are against him. This is not an answer the answer is yes or no because.....etc it is almost robotic. love and light
2007-10-16 03:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by Lightworker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IBM would become the new religion!
You did know that was there motto (specifically for their programmers) back in the early days, didn't you?
One of my old lovers (really old now!) was on the team that created FORTRAN. He was a short-haired button-down shirt and suit IBM guy in the daytime and a folk singer in Greenwich Village at night. Recruited by IBM for his ability to write chess problems. In those days, nobody had experience as programmers, but they figured chess players and chess puzzle writers (and game designers) would have experience thinking logically.
On the whole, I think they were right.
2007-10-16 08:48:24 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People don't have to be stupid and non-thinking to believe all those biblical stories are actually the word of God. They are psychologically condition form birth to think that they are. There are very intelligent people who believe in God.
Religion is everywhere you look. When it is constantly reinforced to someone that it's true, then it becomes true to the person. After all, everyone they know believes the exact same thing they do, and have since they were children, and will pass it on to there children and so on and so forth forever amen. Psychological conditioning.
When you say "think" I think you are meaning, there comes a point in Christian's thinking where one is afraid to think certain things. Like how can God really exist? It is the unknown that they call God. They can't know God except through Jesus. And they can't know all that until they are dead. So they have no need to think any further on the matter. They just have to believe and wait until all the knowledge is given to them when they meet God, after they are dead. And you know what happens to people who don't go live with God after they die. They really, really believe in Hell. Pure psychological conditioning.
2007-10-16 03:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by kj 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To paraphrase a Buddhist quote,
"There are many paths to one and the same mountain top,
those who disregard the path they have in front of them, in order to find another, have ceased climbing, since they are too busy looking". Often when religions tell you to think, they are really compelling you to conform to thinking that only supports their rigid world-view. They don't want you to think for yourself. Buddhism in the quote above, says follow the wisdom of your heart's desire. This is probably as good as a faith can get in telling you to be yourself & think for yourself. Maybe it's not as direct as some people need it, or would like it. However, it's still a far cry from the "think like us" mentality of many religions.
2007-10-16 05:45:59 · answer #5 · answered by Testika Filch Milquetoast 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judging by how well Christians follow the existing ten commandments, not much thinking would be going on.
2007-10-16 03:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Berlin Wall
2007-10-16 03:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
A pivotal teaching of the Baha'i Faith is that each person is responsible to independently investigate reality. Education is the right of everyone, particularly girls (of course, not exclusively), as they when grown are the first educator of the child.
2007-10-16 03:16:01 · answer #8 · answered by jaicee 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Our religions may actually start to resemble something that's actually relevant.
2007-10-16 04:14:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To quote a Twilight Zone Episode:
No change!! No change at all!
2007-10-16 03:15:28 · answer #10 · answered by srsly 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋