Reply To: Idiot of the Year

[Gurnelista]

Really, all this wriggling and twisting to explain why we shouldn’t be concerned with what the bible doesn’t say about dinosaurs or fossils! It really is comical.

Much of it is like debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. In fact, if we took the word God out of many of these comments you could be forgiven for thinking the author was a raving loony, with post after post of intensely written guff.

Each to their own, but religion always was a human construct to explain the universe to people who didn’t know any better.

So, what to do? Here’s a suggestion. Most people don’t question the reality they inhabit, or why they see things the way they do, but they should. Why? Because it’s enlightening.

For example, JI, do you ever open your mind and ask yourself questions about why you think the way you do? For example, how reliable are the sources and people who tell you about what’s going on in the world? (Or for that matter, who or what led you to think that someone like Biden is your candidate for Idiot of the Year?)

Do you ever wonder why so many people just think that all religions were just made up; that they are exotic fabrications to explain life, death, disease, suffering, using the best information the society had at the time? That religion was just a way to answer the huge, troubling mysteries, which badly needed a comforting explanation?

Well, with the rise of science and knowledge of evolution, many now don’t see any need to believe in a god. They see ‘holy’ books of all religions for what they are – just made up stories which were created to comfort the masses.

BPG the same – if you only get your information from the popular press and the Church, it’s not surprising you think the way you do. So, if someone comes along and gives you a scientific explanation of the universe, it makes you feel silly. It puts your beliefs under serious threat, so you feel cross with them and either criticise them or ignore them. But you shouldn’t, because by interrogating your own beliefs, asking questions, reading, talking to a variety of intelligent people, you could learn something.

Of course, if you’ve been steeped in religion since birth, it must be so much more difficult to renounce your god, and on a par with leaving a cult. But, help is available. Here’s an example…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovering_from_Religion

OK must go and wash my hair, got a flat earth soc. meet tonight.