Are Americans gullible with their faith?

Question

I've been seeing a lot of responses in this category about faith and being gullible. Since when does believing in G-d make me gullible. Since when does knowing that someone greater then anything I can ever imagine loves me and accepts me no matter what, makes me an idiot.
I don't believe in G-d because other people tell me to, or because I feel I might go to Hell (because I don't believe in Hell)
I believe in G-d because, he's real. I can't prove it. But I know it myself. Honestly truly deep down in my heart He loves me. and i'm not childish for thinking that way.

Moiraes Fate.

I hope you know I do believe in unicorns. I have one in my back yard, eating up my garden. :)

I've changed my mind. I can prove G-d exists to anybody. I can show them themselves. their strength and weaknesses. All the wonders of this world. That's my proof.

Answer 1

Anti-theist bigots like to accuse believers of being "stupid" and "gullible".

I suppose, it makes them feel superior.

As if bigotry and hate make a person somehow superior.

So . . . who's really gullible, when you think about it?

Mean people - of all stripes . . .

Mean people suck!

Answer 2

Some clearly are.

The evidence, away from the issue of faith in God, which is up for debate/dispute, can be found in Y!A with little difficulty, consisting of the naive statements, arguments and evidences presented by many Christians, which they would not use if they had spent even a few minutes thinking about them or cross-checking them.
Notoriously:
Pascal's wager, and variations thereof.
Darwin recanted.
Lack of transitional fossils
A watch implies a watchmaker...
Why are there still apes/monkeys..?
etc, etc.

Some rarer individuals have demostrated a belief in Noah's ark having been found, and Hell having been drilled into.

"he's real. I can't prove it. But I know it myself"
...may well be your true experience, but it is an issue of naivety, (not really gullibility) not to have realised that a sincere Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist could claim the same, with the same conviction and authenticity.
If you wish your experience to be taken as valid, you have no grounds for doubting theirs...
But then the outsider has no reason to prefer your report and conclusion to theirs.

Answer 3

Gullible

adjective
1. naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
2. easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"

So what what would make someone easy to deceive? To deceive someone, you must make them believe something that is false. You are much more likely to be deceived if you do not require proof to believe things.

"I believe in G-d because, he's real. I can't prove it"

You sound pretty gullible to me, at least when it comes to your belief in God.

Answer 4

Even if you're not, many believers are. They grow up in the faith of their family.

Besides, all you seem to be going on is a feeling that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. That might not make you gullible, but I'd still prefer not to be like you.

Answer 5

People in General are Gullible, its No wonder because the Apostle John warned “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” ( 1 John 5: 19).. No Surprise there.

Answer 6

Well at least you don't seem like one of the mindless followers that most of the religious people here are. They eat the bible up and believe everything it says. That's why they are gullible.

Answer 7

Because it's not true, and believing in the false makes one gullible.

It's not just faith in which Americans (and many other cultures) are gullible.

Answer 8

The neo-libs are employing a three prong attack of concern, hatred, and bread and circus. they'll scare us approximately Mexicans and Muslims, they'll make us hate one yet another, Bush, and our very own usa, and people who slip for the period of the cracks, would be bread and circused to marginality. there are in basic terms some voices crying interior the desert. enable the U. S. fall in the event that they do no longer pay attention.

Answer 9

Well, sir, I have been told by faithful Americans that Nobel Prize winners are morons AND that stars are meteors.

What other conclusions can I draw. And mind you, this is the tip of the iceberg.

Answer 10

You asked, "Are Americans gullible with their faith?"

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