Most of you worship Pop stars Celebrities' you make your own little alters, with their pictures on the walls you go to there concerts' pay big money stand for hours in the weather to glimpse them,
Since science has devalued religion you have substituted God with Pop stars, You make remarks about the coffers in the church [collections] but are you doing exactly the same
contributing your money to those Celebrities, You may say
O'h but it gives us happiness and its not the same 'wrong''
Christians get the same buzz as you do, You are reading every gossip about celebrities like the Christians reading their scripts,
You are looking for something to fill that empty vacuum,
My grammer is poor my apology.
2007-10-24 03:09:51 · 31 answers · asked by denis9705 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What on earth are you on about Denis?
Every question from you seems to be trying to attack people who don't believe and every time you get swatted because your argument is unfounded.
If you believe - fine. But have the confidence to just stick to it and don't think you have to win some sort of battle with non-believers. If it comes to reason and logic you are going to lose because religion is just faith, pure and simple. You either accept the drivel the god squad tell you or you don't.
I doubt that many of the non-believers here idol worship anybody. I go to concerts but I'm sure that the performers have all the faults that I have have, and some of them more. I have absolutely no doubt that some of them are idiots who are overpaid. They rip me off, but I can't get to see a live show unless I pay the price. I may appreciate their talent, but worship them I do not.
I'm beginning to think that you are insecure in your faith if you have to justify it by trying to prove us wrong.
2007-10-24 10:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by davidifyouknowme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your grammer may be poor but the sources of your information must be worse. I have never seen a person in my entire life who has an alter in their house for a celebrity. I have seen people put up some posters in their house. I know people who go to concerts. However, none of the people I know are worshipping these people. Another point to toss in, most of these people are christians and would be very upset if someone suggested that they were worshipping the actors or singers.
Your reasoning is flawed. First you believe that everyone out there is either worshipping a god or worshipping a celebrity. That is not true. There are some people who do neither and there are some who do both. However, celebrity worship is actually very rare. The people who do get into that sort of thing usually get into the news somehow (and not in a good way) and it seems like there are more of them than there are.
I like to watch movies and I like good music. I don't like to go to concerts though. One it is too crowded and two usually I don't care for the sound of the music at a concert. It is usually off and also blended with people cheering and going crazy. I also like to read. However, I do this to amuse myself. Not to fill a void.
2007-10-24 03:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've been to 'tongue speaking' churches. They teach you to just blurt out what ever gibberish comes to you, I was there while they were teaching it, I witnessed the gibberish. Anyone can speak it, no offense. There is no such thing as a 'true christian' but only in the egocentric minds of those who feel they are above everyone else. Jesus never taught religion, he taught Truth. Christians have humanized their god over the centuries. That is the main reason I left religion actually. I got extremely tired of all the hypocrisy, arrogance and self serving attitudes of the religious folk. They make their god sound like you have to be a member of a country club before you can join their organization. A very self righteous and deluded crowd. Speaking from my own years of experiencing this religious group. Been there.....done that. My heart is my Truth, not what someone else tells me to believe, or what was written in a 2000 year old journal. The bible is full of metaphors, too many folks take it literally word for word, a very dangerous practice.
2016-05-25 11:10:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sweeping generalisation if there ever was one. I'm not the slightest bit interested in the cult of celebrity. I love football, love Man U but I don't idolise the players. And when I pay to go to a match I get something back in return, something I can see and not the promise of jam tomorrow served up with lies and inaccuracies offered by religion. Also If do need something to fill a vacuum so what? It's better to fill it with something real than a work of fiction about an infanticidal, petty minded, homophobic, jealous, misogynistic and thoroughly odious deity that christians worship
2007-10-24 07:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WORSHIP : reverent honour and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
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There is a HUGE difference between enjoying music live and believing that the singer created the world in 6 days gave us life and a bible which went out of date and replaced by his son over 2000 years ago... surely you can see that?
I "pay big money stand for hours in the weather to glimpse them". Do I?
I think I would be a might bit miffed if I paid for a ticket to a music concert and they simply walked across the stage for me to glimpse them! I pay for the ticket because there are costs in staging a concert of any kind and the band are making a living and I'm going to be entertained.
You need to know that deriving pleasure from entertainment is a wholly separate thing from religion. I have not deluded myself into believing that the entertainer has a personal relationship with me, all I have to do is talk out loud and they will hear me (but not reply). I know when I die I wont be greeted at the pearly crowd barriers by Michael Stipe!
Your argument only points out your complete lack of understanding about life without religion.
2007-10-24 04:09:42 · answer #5 · answered by Fiona F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think any one I have read has blasted Christians for god worship. Just pointed out just how illogical their belief is that there is some super human being who is interested in them personally. As to those who worship pop stars well at least those stars are real and exist and the fans know that the star does not know them
2007-10-24 03:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of you worship pop stars? How old do you think people are in here? Goodness me. Reading a magazine every now and again is hardly the same as having blind faith in something mythical. At least whoever these so called people who keep 'little alters' to celebrities are, know that person is real!!
2007-10-24 03:23:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wow.
Uhhh... Maybe you need to turn the TV off more, if you think celebrity worship is a common phenomenon.
And happiness comes from within. Your god has nothing to do with mine. I'm sorry yours is dependent on others.
Science hasn't devauled anything. It merely explains reality. If you find your faith weak enough to be devalued by science, then you must not have had much to begin with anyway.
2007-10-24 03:15:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wait, science has replaced God with pop stars?
That must be why all the articles in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine were written by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
2007-10-24 03:13:21 · answer #9 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry, I'm not doing that either. I never was much into keeping up with pop-culture. It's just another example of how humans behave like lemmings following the leader right over the cliff, quite like religion.
2007-10-24 03:20:00 · answer #10 · answered by Murazor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋