2007-12-03 10:12:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
when they tried to force others to believe
when the use "facts" to prove their beileifs
when they dont understand its faith and not fact
2007-12-03 10:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Religion has always been attached to insanity because all religions depend on doctrines and practices from supposed Holy books that give them rewards for performance while never providing a personal relationship with God.
Christianity stands alone as a "relationship with God" and not a religion. A true Christian cares little for rewards and their most precious reward will be to spend eternity in the presence of their Lord, Master and Savior Jesus Christ. If that entails rewards they are thankful for them but don't see them as the reason for following Christ.
Religion is based on working to please God. Christianity is knowing we are evil and vile and cannot please God and we see our sinfulness and repent and receive His grace and mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ, even though we deserve Hell and nothing more for our wickedness.
It is insane to trust religion when God has asked us to trust Him and Him alone for our salvation. I guess that is the insanity you are talking about.
2007-12-03 18:22:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion (a set of man-made rules) attempts to get people to heaven based on actions or works. To get to heaven, one must have a relationship with Christ - so "religion" never crossed over to insanity... it started off there.
2007-12-03 18:20:19 · answer #3 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion was insane all along the time line. It was religion that nailed Jesus to the cross. As the matter of fact, Jesus preached against religion. You see, religion is man trying to be holy enough to be accepted by an all righteous God. It can't be done. So God left Heaven and took on the form of man, in Jesus Christ. Then He made a way to see an unrighteous man as righteous, through Jesus.
What we are to do is have a personal relationship with God through Jesus. Can you dig it ?
God be with you,
William, a bond-servant of Jesus
2007-12-03 18:23:45 · answer #4 · answered by BOC 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus taught us things that we thought were insane, because they were exactly opposite of what we understand life and substance to be. So the point it crossed the line was the moment He spoke. I suppose there will be takers of thought who will successfully reject truth for a good portion of eternity.
2007-12-03 18:40:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That depends how you define 'insanity'. If being insane merely means that you are not prepared to accept reality, then you could argue that anyone who isn't a strict freethinker is insane. On the other hand, if insanity requires that you be sufficiently dissociated from reality that you pose a threat to other people, then you can still be religious and not be insane, you just can't be one of those theists who tries to harm people due to your religious beliefs. The legal definition of insanity, as provided by the Free Legal Dictionary, is as follows:
>1) mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.
While most religious people seem to be incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality (i.e. they think God exists despite the evidence available to them), legally they are still able to conduct their affairs, and most of them are not subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.
2007-12-03 18:28:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
oooo I get it, it is like a line chart with religion going up one axis and sanity going along the other so there you have it, no religion (y=0) means no sanity (x=0)
What? two minutes and no thumbs down? I'm insulted
2007-12-03 18:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by happyfriendly2002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans have always been nuts. People buy second cars when they should give it to kids in Africa = insanity. At least Jesus said love god, hate wealth. When do atheists ever say hate wealth?
(edit: apart from buddhists)
2007-12-03 18:21:44 · answer #8 · answered by some_pixels_on_a_screen 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Inquisition.
2007-12-03 18:16:18 · answer #9 · answered by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when God was proved to be alive long after the words used to describe God existed. The word existed before God and God became the WORD.
see words that existed before TODD and TODD became the words.
http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?fid=Sent&mid=1_2186_AGbFtEQAACOtR1RshgYjFnqZNBQ&pid=2&tnef=&YY=1196717471937&newid=1&clean=0&inline=1
so obviously you can see it's insane how long dead writters of the bible left a path to Godhood for the right name to follow.
Meaning you think it's insane for a living being to claim to be God that scripture predicted?
and truthfully being a lari, tod, ... that fits the description, i don't really requir your worship to survive, what i do requir is you respect or atleast your obeyance of laws that say you can;t murder, steal, etc... Then a can live as normally as any of your middle-class or poor.
so isn't that insane?
2007-12-03 18:25:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
That happened centuries ago. Look at the Cathars.
2007-12-03 18:16:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋