why do people take religion as fact without any proof or questioning it? I am going to give an analogy.?

Question

Has any one ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible--of God's mortal terror of science? . . . No one, in fact, has understood it. This priest-book par excellence opens, as is fitting, with the great inner difficulty of the priest: he faces only one great danger; ergo, "God" faces only one great danger.--The old God, wholly "spirit," wholly the high-priest, wholly perfect, is promenading his garden: he is bored and trying to kill time. Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.21What does he do? He creates man--man is entertaining. . . But then he notices that man is also bored. God's pity for the only form of distress that invades all paradises knows no bounds: so he forthwith creates other animals. God's first mistake: to man these other animals were not entertaining--he sought dominion over them; he did not want to be an "animal" himself.

So God created woman. In the act he brought boredom to an end--and also many other things! Woman was the second mistake of God.--"Woman, at bottom, is a serpent, Heva"--every priest knows that; "from woman comes every evil in the world"--every priest knows that, too. Ergo, she is also to blame for science. . . It was through woman that man learned to taste of the tree of knowledge.--What happened? The old God was seized by mortal terror. Man himself had been his greatest blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men godlike--it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific!--Moral: science is the forbidden per se; it alone is forbidden. Science is the first of sins, the germ of all sins, the original sin. This is all there is of morality.--"Thou shalt not know"--the rest follows from that.--God's mortal terror, however, did not hinder him from being shrewd. How is one to protect one's self against science? For a long while this was the capital problem.

Answer: Out of paradise with man! Happiness, leisure, foster thought--and all thoughts are bad thoughts!--Man must not think.--And so the priest invents distress, death, the mortal dangers of childbirth, all sorts of misery, old age, decrepitude, above all, sickness--nothing but devices for making war on science! The troubles of man don't allow him to think. . . Nevertheless--how terrible!--, the edifice of knowledge begins to tower aloft, invading heaven, shadowing the gods--what is to be done?--The old God invents war; he separates the peoples; he makes men destroy one another (--the priests have always had need of war....). War--among other things, a great disturber of science !--Incredible! Knowledge, deliverance from the priests, prospers in spite of war.--So the old God comes to his final resolution: "Man has become scientific--there is no help for it: he must be drowned!". . . .

By the way this analogy was written by Nietzche.

Answer 1

Very nice. I actually read that whole thing and quite enjoyed it.

Note to self: Read more Nietzche.

To answer your question, many people take religion as fact because they can't differentiate between a sound argument and a logical fallacy. Others are simply indoctrinated from a young age...there are many reasons.

Answer 2

I'll answer your original bold question. To the religious, or to the people who just plain believe in God... It's not whether or not there's proof. To them it's a feeling, it's faith, it's something you can't explain. You can't make someone change their religion by shoving facts in their face and that's proof that there is that gut feeling. Another thing is the way the world works is just so right it can't be by totally random. There's no way that random matter could come together in such a way to accomodate life as it has. If you throw two pencils out into space and wait 3 billion years will there be a planet of pencils? Hopefully you understand what i'm saying. BTW, i'm not a christian.

Answer 3

Nice essay, with a few flaws.
There is a book on this subject,

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
by Andrew Dickson White
LL.D. (Yale), L.H.D. (Columbia), PH.DR. (Jena)
Late President and Professor of History at Cornell University


New York
D. Appleton and Company
1898
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/White/

It is available online for free.

Answer 4

You know some things, like the Bible, are better understood the way they are recorded and have no additional commentary. Unless the commentary enlightens the reader on it's passage. The commentary I would respect the most is the one that has been used longer and for many years.

Answer 5

There is, of course, no reason to believe in any sort of god. See:

Answer 6

I do not follow any particular religion. I do not mind to be called Christian but Christianity is not a religion, it is a life saving relationship with Jesus, who is our Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way and the Truth and the everlasting life. I believe the Bible is true.

Answer 7

Most were raised to believe.Why question?

Answer 8

You're wasting your time. You come here to have fun.