Do religion and ignorance go hand in hand?

Question

What do you think?

Meaningless statements? Hah. I don't see how my statement can be considered meaningless as I'm simply searching for opinions.
I'm not trying to offend anyone. :]

Answer 1

Yes. If you don't have religion you have the other.

Answer 2

Not at all. Devoutly religious people can certainly be enlightened, intelligent people. There are incredibly ignorant athiests. Religion in any form is simply a philosophy. Following it blindly can lead to ignorance, absolutely, but most people do not. Replace the word religion with any other philosophy, whether economic, political, spiritual or social and the same question arises with the same answer. Does Capitalism / Socialism / Communism and ignorance go hand in hand? For some people involved, yes, others no. How about Nationalism, or Anarchy? Sports? Are football fans ignorant, NASCAR fans? Anything that an individual might follow blindly can lead to ignorance, but to try and label a person as ignorant because he/she believes in a philosophy of any kind is a bit ignorant and knaive in and of itself.

Answer 3

Do you know what these two words mean???
Religion is the worship of things or gods. You can be in a religion the worships stones, pigs sun god etc; or you can worship the true God. To worship the true God is the one and only true religion.
Ignorance is the act of not knowing, as, I was ignorant to the facts.( meaning I didn't know the facts), every one could be ignorant of something. A total ignorant person, just don't know any thing, and haven't learned or not able to learn any thing.
Religion and ignorance, do not go together, because when you are told about God, or you read the bible, you are no longer ignorant of the facts about God.

Before you post a question, check the facts, or you will appear, ignorant. (not knowing facts).
Knowing facts,but not beliving them, dont make you ignorant, because you do know the facts,
Those that know about God, but still dont believe in His, can't
plead ignorance, because they do know; they just dont care to believe, its their doom111 they have been told.

Answer 4

I think religion and ignorance do not go hand in hand.For example in islamic teaching God instructs us to read and study sciences and then implement it..God will treat the knowledged person is higher than the ignorant person..By reading the books and the natural environment our knowledge will increase.God instruct us for studying since we are born up to we will die,eventhough we should go to China country.God instructs us to pay islamic taxes.For paying taxes we should rich enough.The rich can be reached by working hard with knowledges in several fields.The ignorant people can not be a rich man. who pays islamic taxes...God instructs certain job should be accomplished by a skill person who is trusted and honest.

Answer 5

regrettably, that would desire to be the case. it fairly is a touch traumatic theory, yet backed with the aid of the movements of our representatives of the two events. We continually reelect the comparable people to the comparable positions for some years. some have actually died of previous age of their elected seat. we haven't paid interest to their activities and assumed that one and all replaced into properly. Now we stumble on ourselves in deep financial misery brought about with the aid of self serving politicians who've represented in basic terms their very own pursuits. Our lack of know-how of ways our government works and what it fairly is doing is greater risky than an invading military. And yet we expect of that we've each and every of the solutions whilst no longer having a clue approximately even our very own representative. It would not bode properly for our destiny.

Answer 6

prov 3:5 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding. 6 In all your ways take notice of him, and he himself will make your paths straight.psalms 23:3,4 Who may ascend into the mountain of Jehovah,
And who may rise up in his holy place?
4 Anyone innocent in his hands and clean in heart,
Who has not carried My soul to sheer worthlessness,
Nor taken an oath deceitfully.
Isaih35:8And there will certainly come to be a highway there, even a way; and the Way of Holiness it will be called. The unclean one will not pass over it. And it will be for the one walking on the way, and no foolish ones will wander about [on it]. eph5:3 Let fornication and uncleanness of every sort or greediness not even be mentioned among you, just as it befits holy people; 4 neither shameful conduct nor foolish talking nor obscene jesting, things which are not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks. 5 For you know this, recognizing it for yourselves, that no fornicator or unclean person or greedy person—which means being an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.
Isaih5:20 Woe to those who are saying that good is bad and bad is good, those who are putting darkness for light and light for darkness, those who are putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! psalms97:10 O you lovers of Jehovah, hate what is bad.
He is guarding the souls of his loyal ones;
Out of the hand of the wicked ones he delivers them.
prov 6:16 There are six things that Jehovah does hate; yes, seven are things detestable to his soul: 17 lofty eyes, a false tongue, and hands that are shedding innocent blood, 18 a heart fabricating hurtful schemes, feet that are in a hurry to run to badness, 19 a false witness that launches forth lies, and anyone sending forth contentions among brothers.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, 20 idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, 21 envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning you, the same way as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.

Answer 7

Your terminology is too broad. I do think "religion" and ignorance go hand-in-hand. But Truth and ignorance are mortal enemies. I seek Truth, not religion. I find Truth in a particular religion. All religions are not the same, so your question has no answer.

Answer 8

I think that sometimes that's true, particularly of very fundamentalist sects. An extremely fundamentalist sect relies on its followers' failure to question for their continued loyalty. In my experience (and I have had occasion to study MANY belief systems), the more educated the person, the more likely he/she was to participate in a religion that encouraged questioning and independent thinking. The more poorly educated, the more likely the person was to be part of a sect/denomination that was very rigid, and had lots of hard-and-fast rules, meaning they didn't HAVE to think for themselves - it was all done for them.

I personally believe that this is a question of a person's critical thinking abilities; ignorance and low levels of intelligence are conducive to keeping someone's critical thinking skills (if any) from becoming a factor in his behavior.

Answer 9

No, because there are just as many people who are religious who are not ignorant as there are atheists who are ignorant. People are people no matter their faith or beliefs, and the true problem is how much do they really believe what they claim to believe or not to believe.

Answer 10

just because you believe in something that cant rally be explained doesn't make you ignorant.

people need something to believe in. they need something to fall back on when they run out of options. your religion may or may not be real but if your faith is genuine then it is real to you and it if it gets you by day to day then I'd rather be called ignorant than lose faith in what gives me strength

Answer 11

I think it can and often does because people often just believe without thinking for themselves. However, there are plenty of people who do think about their religion and have come up with good reasons for practicing.