What systems thrive on fear, sense of entrapment, overwhelming guilt, offering a non-evidential solution that relies on faith, based in no logic? What systems makes you surrender your logic, and force you to think within their architecture- accept this and you will live an eternal after-life of servitude?
Hint: Religion and Totalitarianism
2007-12-07 16:15:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
both are evil, both are mankind’s creation
2007-12-07 16:16:15 · update #1
GREED & LUST???
2007-12-11 16:09:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager
Christians sometimes proffer Pascal’s Wager (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager ) suggesting to non-believers that they should accept Jesus (John 3:16) as some sort of insurance policy against hell, just in case it turns out god really exists. The fallacy with this line of reasoning is that faith in god for some reward or to avoid punishment is not faith at all. It is a selfish act to receive something in return for a belief. The point of religious belief so that one becomes a better person, not to receive a reward or please a spiritual being.
2007-12-07 16:19:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh, Brother!?! What a load of nonsense. You show absolutely no sign you have explored the actual evidence that is extant that could possible lead you to an eternal relationship with the only True Lover of your Soul...
Regardless, "I have prayed for you that when Satan has sifted you like wheat you will minister to your brethren"
2007-12-07 16:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by menome b 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I neither live in fear nor feel trapped. Jesus has taken away my guilt, but not forced me to think in any specific manner.
I don't like religion either.
2007-12-07 16:22:58 · answer #4 · answered by ohio gal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
minus 15 points. You failed to ask a question. You used the time to express your point of view. Obviously you do not want to hear any other.
2007-12-07 16:21:36 · answer #5 · answered by Terry L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds more like income-tax department.. when your taxed $$ is not accountable in govt's expenditure, with the constant fear of being labelled as tax-evader, being charged in court.., paying for nothing,n they'll keep your file as long as you r alive... Leave you in peace only after death.
2007-12-07 16:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not quite - the system is the flesh (sin), the world (run by Satan), and Satan with his minions.
2007-12-07 16:23:23 · answer #7 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to go with 'religion and totalitarianism'. Was I right?
2007-12-07 16:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dang, Toadaly beat me to it.
2007-12-07 16:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go beyond mind and you will understand what is what!
2007-12-07 16:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by shanky_andy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how can you use logic with things that can't be humanly explained?
2007-12-07 16:19:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋