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Kindly explain why or why not, and include the name of your faith/non-faith tradition.
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2007-12-11 04:38:20 · 22 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Also of saying/ not saying, "I'm scared of the answers."
Atheist
2007-12-11 04:43:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's a way of answering questions that don't yet have a real answer. Proof, religion has eventually backed off of every claim that has been proven wrong or become too absurd to continue claiming.
It was not so long ago that ecology and environmentalist were being protested against by Christian groups and now it would be unheard of. Right now we can watch Christianity slowly absorb evolution into it's belief system.
Go to any forum talking about religion and you will find Christians asking "how do you know god didn't start evolution"
Theology is the domain of the "yes, but..." argument. Right now it has all but retreated to "Yes, but you can't disprove god."
2007-12-11 04:42:12 · answer #2 · answered by tuyet n 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
No, it is a way of saying that I believe the apostles when they said:
"For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, 'This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased'-- and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain."
~2 Peter 1:16-18 (NASB)
Obviously, if you believe the eyewitness testimony, then you assume that you DO KNOW something, not that you "don't know".
You imply doubt where none exists. Are you really that insecure in your convictions that you automatically assume that everyone else is also?
2007-12-11 04:56:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ned F 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They're ways to say, "I don't want to accept what is possibly the grim truth that none of these are real, and that when I die my body will go the ashes to ashes dust to dust route, therefore I will turn the other cheek to logic and science and reason and instead suspend my disbelief and embrace these fantastical theories of the supernatural and afterlife and God."
To me it seems to be something many people do for comfort, or because they're deeply troubled by the idea that yes, things could happen for no particular rhyme nor reason in this entropic universe of ours.
2007-12-11 04:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's a way to dress up "I don't know" in tinsel imagery in an effort to make it appear to be "I know."
"God" has always been a symbol of man's desire to know the unknowable, and to have control over the things that are really out of his control. This has been true from "His" beginnings as a being the savages would petition to assist them with the hunt or grow the crops, down to His (relatively) modern employment as the "Uncaused Cause" of creationism.
God is always the unsolved "X" of the equation; but X is not solved simply because you've decided to call it "God."
2007-12-11 04:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
I'd say they're a way to avoid saying it.
I'm an atheist in large part because I'm comfortable admitting that I don't know everything.
2007-12-11 04:49:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist.
There are whole range of subjects where the Christian and the Atheist agree that they "do not know."
The Atheist accepts this situation and hopes to gain enlightenment at some time in the future.
The Christian is less patient and declares that since he "does not know". then, in fact, "he does know" (that god did it).
2007-12-11 04:52:26 · answer #7 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Great point! The weak minded seek supernatural answers instead of seeking logical answers. Funny how atheists have no problem saying 'I don't know', but Christians do.
2007-12-11 04:43:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
YESSSS....YESSSSSSSS
That is how all that garbage came up in the first place. As we become more advanced we become less bound by the church....I wonder why. Maybe it is because everyone is wising up to how big of a scam it is.
2007-12-11 04:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are two different beliefs, one the teaching of people like Dawkins who says there is only one realm of existance and that is the natural physical universe governed by natural physical laws. The other is the teaching of Jesus Christ that there are two realm, a natural physical one, but also a spiritual realm as well that is governed by spiritual laws. Jesus taught that in order to enter the spiritual realm, Kingdom of God, you need to have a spiritual biirth just as you needed a physical birth to enter the natural realm. He also taught that until you have that spiritual birth you cannot see or understand the spiritual realm. For those of us who choose to believe Jesus Christ we are not seeking for a way around our beliefs, we just simply see a whole different realm of existance than the natural physical one.
I am a Christian "fundie".
2007-12-11 04:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Maybe. For me, it's more of an admitting that there are probably things beyond my comprehension.
2007-12-11 04:42:33 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋