Is that true?
2007-11-23 11:12:33 · 26 answers · asked by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oops.... that *they* have to.
2007-11-23 11:13:29 · update #1
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Hi, Richard! AARRGGHH!!! :)
2007-11-23 11:19:40 · update #2
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Hey there, Verbal Ninja :)
2007-11-23 11:28:39 · update #3
i'm sure some do...just like some atheists have to call Christians 'ignorant' to help maintain their pretense of superior intellect...i believe in God for the same reason i believe in air...it's there! i'm not afraid of anything, except maybe scray clowns and 'riverdance'...man, they just creep me out!
2007-11-23 11:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does your boyfriend realize that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, considered themselves Deists?
Do you think those men feared everything and needed to believe in a god to feel protedted?
Then there's your answer.
2007-11-23 19:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by Chantal G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't "feel" the presence of God in his heart for one reason or another. That's ok....but ask him to use his brain and think deeply for a second....to look around and see what he's thankful for......his hopes and dreams....the wonders of the world.....his own curiousity of space and other planets, etc. The Universe goes on and on and there is a whole lot we don't know yet...think about it. Everything is endless.....lilfe is not simplistic but so complex that someone very very powerful created which we couldn't even imagine.
2007-11-23 19:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some of them probably do, especially the really extreme believers (most theists today don't really pay much attention to matters of religion and so aren't really affected all that much by religion).
Right Wing Authoritarians who are overwhelming fundamentalist religious believers do have a lot more fear than average and a need to belong to something to put their fear to rest so their religion probably is that something, at least partially.
2007-11-23 19:21:43 · answer #4 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sometimes that's true. My mother feels that way, and I just let her, because there's no stopping her. However, I know a lot of people that use their god to make them more powerful.
Assumptions make an *** out of you and me.
2007-11-23 19:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by Euphonie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes.
Hi Zilla
2007-11-23 19:18:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
the atheists are out in droves tonight.
wow.
If we are afraid of everything, wouldn't we be afraid of God?
I bet your other half will fear death when it comes knocking at the door. I have no fear in death, either.
2007-11-23 19:26:02 · answer #7 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid of spiders, and I know for a fact God isn't going to save me if I'm an idiot and stick my hand in a spider's web.
God isn't hear to alleviate our fear, but His presence often puts the fear of God in one! : )
2007-11-23 19:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by Ryan H 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope. If I feel the need to be protected, I turn to my attack cats.
2007-11-23 20:04:49 · answer #9 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
True.
Hey Zilla!!!
2007-11-23 19:22:37 · answer #10 · answered by Verbal Ninja 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋