Post #134
Luzer wrote:
Stingray I like the post. I came to the forums for an answer to a question about BF2S and fell upon your post. I registered here just to reply.
I am an atheist. This will come accross offensive but I think people that are religious are simply uneducated.
Oganized religion is truly dissapointing and burdens science and technology. I'd like to think that the early christian intensions were good but its just big business and poltics now. For someone to stand proud of thier incompetence makes me sad, ill, and very dissapointed.
The worship a higher power came at a time thousands of years ago when human brains really started to develop and when man realized that one day he will die.
As simple as it may sound it is the fear of death. The religions/beliefs man have merely out of survival and self preservation.
Thanks, man. Pay no attention to ATGs grammar check post.
No offense taken, thanks for registering to reply and for posting your views honestly. Some of us who are religious
are uneducated and have not studied other views which challenge our own. Standing on beliefs that we just believe without knowing why is very sad and disappointing. When I encounter that mindset in other Christians it frustrates me to no end. At the same time, I am not the brain trust of Christianity and don't claim to have all the answers to the hard questions yet. Everyone should be willing to challenge our beliefs with opposing viewpoints and test their validity. Failing to do so is rooted in the fear that our beliefs will be shown to be false. I do not think that mindset is exclusive to the religious, however. I’ve had discussions with atheists and agnostics who deny basic logical conclusions because they refuse to allow a challenge to their own worldview.
The burdening of science and technology by religion doesn’t seem to fit. If so many scientists are not religious as we’re told, then why would religion hinder their chosen scientific study or development of technology? Also, if religions and their beliefs arose simply out of survival and self preservation, why then isn’t everyone religious? We all have the survival and self preservation instinct and many of us fear death in one way or another. In light of those realities, it seems that belief should be a universal instinctual response, according to your point of view. Feel free to clarify if I’ve misunderstood your thoughts.