When people do it all the time.
I changed mine from a deep, sincere Christianity to atheism.
When the evidence is shown to prove that your religion is faulty or completely wrong, isn't it delusion to not change?
If I believed that the Earth were flat and I went up in a space shuttle and saw, first hand that it was spherical, it would be incumbent upon me to change my belief, would it not?
As religion becomes more and more unreasonable in the face of science and reason, should people who say that they would NEVER change their beliefs, be thought of as unreasonable people?
2007-12-26 13:39:13 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1) People do not do it "all the time".
2) If you go up into space, you may only see a disk and not a sphere, reiterating your conjecture that the earth is flat
3) What "evidence" is presented that religion is "wrong"?
4) Is religion becoming more unreasonable or are those who administer the faith becoming more unreasonable?
2007-12-26 13:55:51 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are exactly right. Unfounded beliefs that contradict modern knowledge are the basis for most religions. To ignore proven science simply because the person "believes" something else is unreasonable at best and willful ignorance at worst. But, I guess some people just need to have that crutch to support them for some reason or other.
2007-12-26 13:46:29 · answer #2 · answered by Harry 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I too went from Christianity to Atheism. I feel a little like Alice in Wonderland. You would think that such a conversion would make a person less personable. I have found it to be quite the opposite. I have new found new respect for all religions and faithful. I feel they are more blessed then I am.
Peace.
2007-12-26 13:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by Blame Amy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"faith" itself does not ward off technology. non secular people have been and are scientists. and finding around at the place we are at now, i could say it grew to become into progressing. the only genuine ***** on that element could be stem cellular study and faith does not say a damn element approximately that. some non secular people have confidence it extremely is against their god.... it extremely is it. faith does substitute and that i've got in no way extremely heard everybody who pronounced it did no longer. I see Christians claiming their god in no way ameliorations, yet it extremely is distinctive than somebody claiming faith does not. Slavery, case in point, is pleased with the biblical god.... how many christians do you recognize actual very own slaves? so faith does substitute with society. lol people who take the genesis tale actually are off, confident... yet no longer all who have confidence interior the biblical god take it actually. you maintain attempting to sound smart, yet then you employ generalizations like those as though all religions fall well in the outline you have given here... however the certainty of it extremely is, it does not. you ought to place persons in that... yet no longer the full team in accordance with what a number of the persons do or say.
2016-10-20 00:35:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hm .. what I cen tell you is about me.
I really defined my belives when I read the Bible. I feel indeed free of my religion, but I also know that I won't find the perfect religion so I stick to mine. I think though that for someone very close I would do this legal thing too. :).
2007-12-26 20:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by AnGe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some people are sure about it?
Oh yeah the bible has to many flaws in it, like it says the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around the Earth, and the whole thing is about the life of Jesus, you can't implicate your religion only on the 40 years of a living being (jesus). It's crazy.
2007-12-26 13:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You'd think that they'd at least leave room for the possibility that a different god than their own will drop out of the sky someday and say, Hey, THIS OTHER group is the one that actually knows what it's talking about...
If that's not unreasonable stubbornness, I don't know what is.
2007-12-26 13:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's that wonderful human "never say die" attitude. Persistence is often the key to accomplishment. I'll probably change my beliefs several times in next few days, but I'll never stop trying to find meaningful things.
2007-12-26 13:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by Incognito 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You hit the nail on the head.
It comes down to this: It takes the minimum amount of effort to think that way.
That way more neurons are free to examine the question: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
2007-12-26 13:43:31 · answer #9 · answered by Ultraviolet Oasis 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think... relatively
- What is considered to be reasonable to us is not reasonable to them.
- you know, God, hell, heaven, afterlife etc.... those are their reasons. However,
- Every human being has choices.
- I am an atheist because I think God and religion was invented long long ago to control primitive people.
2007-12-26 14:03:55 · answer #10 · answered by EJL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋