Preachers/teachers Of Religion

[naomi24]

A question for people who believe what preachers/teachers of religion tell them.

Regardless of creed, why do you think they know any more about God and the supernatural than you do when you each have exactly the same information at your disposal – none of which can be authenticated?

[pixie373]

Because they want to believe it.

[grasscarp]

Why do people have teachers of any subject? Why accept what your history teacher told you? Same stuff different day - none of which can be authenticated - really?

[tamborine]

A child trusts parents to choose the best education for them. Only when the child matures can it make an informed choice.

[keyplus90]

Worried about God again. Restless people with no peace of mind.

[modeller]

It's not an imaginary entity they are worried about its the evil it creates.

[naomi24]

From the answers given it's clear that a couple of people here either haven't read the question - or are very reluctant to answer it honestly.

[jomifl]

Keyplus, glad you could make it, are you going to take this opportunity of answering some of the oustanding questions directed at you or are you going to do a runner as per usual?

[jomifl]

The guy wearing the funny hat and the longer than average robes always knows more than the average punter, otherwise why would he wear the stuff?

[wildwood]

From my very early childhood I remember that the local priest was send to Earth to spread the message as a kind of saint. Directly after a priest's home visit we would argue who would be allowed to sit on the chair that his Holiness had sat on, it was regarded as somewhat sacred/blessed for a while. The priest could have told us anything and we would have believed him.

Naturally, close to our teens we started to question some of the impossible ecclesiastical postulations and close family grief made us realise that religion is just a load of ***.

[ludwig]

// Worried about God again //

You're the one that's worried about god KP. I guarantee you that no atheists are. The question doesn't concern god though. It's about people who preach or teach religion, and those who follow them.

[sandyRoe]

They are learned men while we the faithful are, for the most part, ignoramuses.

[ludwig]

Shouldn't that be ignorami?

[ludwig]

..or is that paper folding? If so I can make an ignorami swan.

[mikey4444]

Pixie has the answer here. People who fall for this illogical guff have a need to believe in something. Their need sidelines their ability to use rational thought to work things out for themselves. A moment spent studying any of the ridiculous and ludicrous things that religion tells them are true would soon show those people the truth.

[1ozzy]

It really doesn't matter, each to their own.
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"Do what you want to do, be what you want to be" Yeah!

Everyone should make up their own mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKE2hmgzUgo

[naomi24]

1ozzy, //"Do what you want to do, be what you want to be" Yeah!//

Actually … no. If what you want to do, or want to be, affects anyone else you are not entitled to do what you want to do or to be what you want to be.

Ludwig, :o)

[jim360]

If you believe in the basic premise, then it's not unreasonable to also believe that people who have spent most of their lives studying the specifics might have learned something along the way. It's probably nothing more than faith in the expert. The problem here is that the basic premise is wrong, and so everything else that follows it is also wrong.

[1ozzy]

That's quite true Naomi24, but does that mean we have to be what everyone else expects us to be?. Do we have to believe what others do?
I encourage people to be individuals, to become the people they wish to be, instead of being the people I wish them to be.
Hopefully still being "good citizens".
rgds.

[naomi24]

1ozzy, I answered that question in my previous post.

[1ozzy]

Guess I missed something Naomi24...My apologies.