Belief in spirituality is just like a bubble of hope to distract yourself from all the bad things in this world. It might be as simple as a invisible friend, to worshipping a most superior figure in church.
The issue is that spirituality is inherently false and always lead to destruction and the killing of innocents. People who blindly believe in a spiritual being will blindly follow a person who claims to speak for this being which usually ends up with a corrupt person teaching that group that a certain group of people are evil and should be killed for their sins.
Believing in shit like 'auras' isn't as bad as supernatural beings, but the issue is that this belief tends to cause deaths just as much. If you can simply heal someone by moving your hands over them in an idiotic way, then why go to the doctor and give them medicine that will give them autism?
I follow Jesus so you probably think I'm blind. I think I would call it trust as opposed to blindness though. I don't need to have all the answers to all my questions to trust Him.
The fact that you believe in a magical wizard that is the son of a magical sky wizard who is also previous the magical wizard is childish and the literal definition of blindfaith. You are believing something that is detrimental to both yourself and those around you.
There is a difference between spiritual and religious. Religious believes that their being has a name, saved everyone and is the only being there is and those that oppose it are wrong. Spiritual is that there is a belief that a being exists but he doesn't set a guideline for you and wont make you do things. There is no way to follow spiritualism blindly as there would be nothing to follow except your own feelings.
No. Religion is a group of people who believe in similar things. A group of people who likes dogs can be a religion. Spiritual means that you believe in the supernatural.
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You don't have to believe anything and can still be a spiritual person. Spirituality is just the awareness of things we cannot detect with our senses. A spiritual person is just aware how s/he is connected with everything and anyone around, how we're all one and all alone at the same time. It's not necessary to believe in anyone's word to experience this. On the other hand, humans are believers by design, we cannot help but believe in things, and when we loose the faith in something like religion, we're looking for other systems of belief. So we need to establish channels for this basic instinct, as there is a vacuum developing. Problem is, that fear is another of those basic instincts, and I'm afraid it's deeper and stronger anchored than love. Beings have been relying on fear for billions of years so I guess it's easier to phase people thru fear and hate. Fewer and fewer people make real experiences and have real connections to other people, so fear and hate will probably win.
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Imagine being so full of hatred for a group of people you swear are blind followers that you become an enemy yourself, sir spiderman.
None of us know the true answer and for you to think you do is pretentious. Let people believe what they want and don’t be an asshole, it doesn’t affect you.
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Except even in secular states there are usually special rules for churches when it comes to taxes and employer rights.
I'm not full of hatred - I'm southern. That means I eat, sleep, and breathe in Jesus. I just find it... childish. Christianity teaches that you and everyone else is terrible people with some being more terrible than others. You know, those evil scum who eat bacon, wear clothes, shave, fulfil their healthy sexual desires, those who go through puberty, et cetera. Not to mention that the Bible is completely inaccurate. The Earth isn't flat, the stars aren't drops of paint, there are no kingdoms on the clouds, unicorns haven't exist, there was no global flood, and the Earth is far, far, far older than 6000 years old. Saying the Earth is six-thousand years old is like saying the atomic bombs had the power of a few matchsticks.
No, dude, my beliefs are based in Christianity, sure, but there is a very small handful of things in the Bible that I actually believe, and even some of those are taken with a heavy dose of salt. Also, I would appreciate if you didn't presume to know what I believe.
Come on, you can come up with a dumber analogy than that.
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It sounds like Spiderman's antagonism towards religion as a whole comes from misplaced misconceptions about the definition of Christianity, and then believing that all Christians must behave like the handful of C R A Z Y southern Baptists that keep making us look crazy.
Most of us are okay with science saying the Earth is super old, or evolution, or that there's no evidence of a global flood, etc.
Tons of Christians gladly tell you that the Earth was made in seven days, but often, unless you ask specifically, they don't get the chance to say that if God measures time differently than we do, then seven days would clearly not mean one week in our calendar.
Steven Peck, devout Mormon and devout evolutionary biologist, has written a fantastic book called Evolving Faith. I heartily recommend it.
You are saying that being a Christian means saying that Jesus is worthless. He must be pretty worthless if you're going to ignore everything the Bible says - which is supposedly the perfect word of Jesus. Who is God. Who is also his son. Who is also his father.
I swear this Pope doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. The only way to get to Heaven is to believe Jesus died for your sins, bro, good deeds and rituals are only part of it. Hell, Hitler could have gotten to Heaven if he believed in Jesus's sacrifice... Although the attempted genocide of God's chosen people might complicate that, so maybe not. Although, from what I understand, God is infinitely forgiving, so maybe it won't.
1.) Prove Jesus existed
2.) Prove he died
3.) What sins?
4.) Prove heaven exists
5.) Prove that a god exists
6.) Prove that he is the Christian god
7.) Prove that this god's values align with Christianity.
8.) Prove this god is infinitely forgiving
It's called faith, man. Also, I mean, Jesus of Nazareth was a real person, whether he was the son of God or not is a matter of debate, but he was real, and he died. But I can't prove much of that other stuff, but I choose to believe it regardless. But if you're cool with not going to Heaven, that's fine, I don't really care enough to proselytize to you.
Just like you have faith that God doesn’t exist, right brother?
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Atheism isn't about faith, it's about lacking faith. Most atheists won't say: I believe/know that god doesn't exist, because absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence. They'd say: I don't believe in a god, because there is no (or not enough) conclusive evidence for it. That is, they lack the faith to either actively believe or disbelieve
I don't need faith to know that a mythical sky fairy doesn't exist. Such a being is simply not possible and there is absolutely no evidence that he exists.
Faith is believing in something without evidence. I have evidence to support everything I believe in - because my having evidence is the most important thing when trying to convince me - or anybody who isn't already convinced.
Faith can only convince infants and those who are too handicapped to make decisions. Evidence convinces adults.
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You know, this'd be a lot easier if you didn't insult people. People tend not to listen to what you have to say after you insult them
Just because they don't wish to listen doesn't make them right. Quite the contrary actually.
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That's not what I'm saying. My point is that you lose all hope of having a civil conversation and possibly changing someone's mind (which I'd think is something you'd like, unless you just wanna bicker on the internet for no reason) when you start spouting insults. I've said this before, but I guess I wasn't clear enough.
If I wanted to have an intelligent discussion, I'd talk to people who don't do magical rituals in order to help them find their car keys. I was only listing some of the many things wrong with that statement.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/popeatheist.asp
Believing in shit like 'auras' isn't as bad as supernatural beings, but the issue is that this belief tends to cause deaths just as much. If you can simply heal someone by moving your hands over them in an idiotic way, then why go to the doctor and give them medicine that will give them autism?
In other news, here's an article of canadians trying to save someone's life with maple syrup... and failing but still... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephan-meningitis-death_us_56deeb95e4b0000de405cb0c
@laughingbeth All spiritual belief is followed blindly as if their eyes were open, they wouldn't fall for such nonsense.
None of us know the true answer and for you to think you do is pretentious. Let people believe what they want and don’t be an asshole, it doesn’t affect you.
Most of us are okay with science saying the Earth is super old, or evolution, or that there's no evidence of a global flood, etc.
Tons of Christians gladly tell you that the Earth was made in seven days, but often, unless you ask specifically, they don't get the chance to say that if God measures time differently than we do, then seven days would clearly not mean one week in our calendar.
Steven Peck, devout Mormon and devout evolutionary biologist, has written a fantastic book called Evolving Faith. I heartily recommend it.
2.) Prove he died
3.) What sins?
4.) Prove heaven exists
5.) Prove that a god exists
6.) Prove that he is the Christian god
7.) Prove that this god's values align with Christianity.
8.) Prove this god is infinitely forgiving
Faith is believing in something without evidence. I have evidence to support everything I believe in - because my having evidence is the most important thing when trying to convince me - or anybody who isn't already convinced.
Faith can only convince infants and those who are too handicapped to make decisions. Evidence convinces adults.