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What is the main reason you follow a religion? (not open to athiests please)
I finished the rules that will apply above. I think you posted before I had time to edit.jamesb-uk said:I don't intend to discuss religion. I don't want it to be for people to criticize or argue over people's beliefs. It's intended as more of a poll than anything else.
But if it's against the rules then so be it.
jamesb-uk said:What is the main reason you follow a religion? (not open to athiests please)
lisab said:Just curious why you're not wanting to hear from atheists, because it's likely that they have thought a lot more about this question than those who have never questioned their own beliefs.
lisab said:Just curious why you're not wanting to hear from atheists, because it's likely that they have thought a lot more about this question than those who have never questioned their own beliefs.
seycyrus said:That is not only a blatant example of an egotistical statement, but also of a logical fallacy.
I would have to agree with you lisab.lisab said:Most atheists I know came to that state after being raised like most people (i.e., with religious beliefs taught to them by their family), yet came to question religion.
Most religious peole I know don't do much fretting about whether god exists or not...it's pretty much a settled question to them.
It's a mystery to me how you're reading that as egotistical.
It's weird how you'll just believe something until someone finally contradicts it and it makes you start thinking. Like for example, years ago I read that your heart stops when you sneeze. I didn't question it, I just automatically assumed it as true. For years I believed it until someone told me it was a myth. Right when they said that, it enlightened me. I thought wow, it probably is a myth. At that moment, I finally thought about how it didn't make much since now that someone told me it wasn't true. It took that person's contradiction for me to use my own brain and the intelligence I had the entire time, to give it a second thought.Most of the people I know that belong to a religion belong because that's how they were raised and they've never thought about questioning it.
Cyrus said:I like turtles.
lisab said:But do you believe in turtles?
leroyjenkens said:It's weird how you'll just believe something until someone finally contradicts it and it makes you start thinking. Like for example, years ago I read that your heart stops when you sneeze. I didn't question it, I just automatically assumed it as true. For years I believed it until someone told me it was a myth. Right when they said that, it enlightened me. I thought wow, it probably is a myth. At that moment, I finally thought about how it didn't make much since now that someone told me it wasn't true. It took that person's contradiction for me to use my own brain and the intelligence I had the entire time, to give it a second thought.
lisab said:Most religious peole I know don't do much fretting about whether god exists or not...it's pretty much a settled question to them.
lisab said:Just curious why you're not wanting to hear from atheists, because it's likely that they have thought a lot more about this question than those who have never questioned their own beliefs.
Ivan Seeking said:I would even argue that it is often [usually] easier to just stop believing than it is to keep the faith. Consider all of the liability that evaporates in a moment when one rejects religion - no eternal judgements, no hell, no consequences beyond this life. Trust me, that is far easier to live with than believing that we will have to answer for every thought we have, and every action we ever take. For many people, including me for a time, it is difficult to accept the fact that we can't be perfect - that we will knowingly and willingly violate our faith at times no matter how hard we try.
I look at the afterlife without religion and it's really not so bad. I assume it's much like before I was born.I'm going to play devil's advocate here (GIGGLE!) and ask, what about the benefits evaporating? The idea that when you die, that's it, no eternal life, loved ones gone forever, etc etc. It is quite confusing to me why people seem to immediately go towards the liabilities that you mention. Is there a reason people seem to ... i don't know, think about the loss of liabilities more then the loss of benefits? No matter how strong or weak one's faith is, you'd have to believe in the good as much as you believe in the bad.
lisab said:But do you believe in turtles?
Pupil said:What? No one here worships His Noodley Greatness?
negitron said:Of course. It's turtles all the way down.
Kurdt said:I guess everyone will have had to have watched QI for that joke.
Same herePupil said:A Brief History of Time
wildman said:...the fact that religion is STRONGLY selected for means that the counter examples are the exceptions, not the rule.
negitron said:This is not a fact. Facts have evidence behind them.
drankin said:Sure, but is it not a fact that most of the human race is religious in one form or another?