Why we want ourselves far away from faith?
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Tina's Answer is great.
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Being rational and logic are the enemy of faith. You'll find no answer from anyone here or anywhere else. The answer will only come from you.\n\nIf your heart doubts, then you doubt. There's nothing wrong with that. Welcome to joining everyone else.\n\nAnd if a single person can change your mind on something so massively important to the way you live your life, then you allow people to control you far too much.
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Spiritual, don't think that's a "religion", but don't really like the thought of someone else telling me what to believe. I was raised hard-core catholic, catholic school, church twice a week, pray before every meal, and told that if I ever went against God, I would burn in Hell forever. Why would you want to be afraid of what you believe in? I believe in God, but not church, not Adam and Eve, not "religion".
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I don't believe in God, and I feel absolutely OK. I don't buy the blackmail that if I don't believe, I'll be damned. Live a life of freedom and don't believe in anything they cannot prove you.
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im an athiest,a true athiest and all I can say is that many people become so called athiest when they want to hate other faiths or when something bad has happend to them and they choose not to believe in god.My reason for not believing are though facts.I respect all faiths but fake athiest tend to want to bully and self-assure them self though disrespectul and aggrisive questions.Bottom lilne no matter what you are,stupid people who cant respect will be on both sides and you need to know the 2 important rules in life;\nNEVER ENGAGE IN A RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL DEBATE!
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Because many many people see the horrors of religion in general, the absolute lack of reason in involved with "faith" and are not afraid of death.  \n\nThe world is a teeny tiny place in the realm of the universe and whatever is beyond what we can see.  Many people need to be comforted by believeing that there is something "out there" taking care of the human race.  \n\nMany feel the need to have something to guide them (could it be that their moral principles are not strong enough, or that they just need SOME kind of purpose to not feel like a waste of flesh?).  \n\nFor some, it is just easier to be blind to reality and accept a made up god than to actually use their brain to ask the questions which might be able to actually provide any comprehensible answers.
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I think this particular problem concerning religion stems from the fact that religion asks us to have faith in something that we cannot prove exists while at the same time promising that this thing we cannot prove exists answers all of the questions of existence.  Therefore, we want to believe in it because we want the answers to all of existence (including the meanings of our own lives) but because we cannot prove it by any scientific test yet devised, we have to wonder (maybe secretly) whether or not we have chosen the "right" religion.  When someone comes along who challenges the foundations of our religious beliefs, one of our first reactions is fear (understandably), because if they're "right" it means that we've been "wrong" all of this time and everything on which we have built our universe frame of reference (our sense of identity and where we fit into the Grand Scheme of Things) will have to be rebuilt on a new foundation.  It's fear of being wrong about something so personal that causes us to get cranky about religion.\n\nI've found that the most helpful way to approach religion is to recognize that every single person on this planet has their own unique point of view about the universe, and so no two people will ever agree fully on what it means to be here.  The best we can do is to agree that we are here now, whether by the hand of God or through mere chance, and we can only ease our existence by recognizing the truth in other points of view.
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No, because the people who cling to a religion are people who need discipline and restraint in their lives. Underneath all that "Jesus loves me!" euphoria they hang on to deep fears of divine wrath. Without their religion to hold them back, I honestly believe some of them would have no qualms about murder, rape, stealing, etc.
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It seems that some people from all different faiths feel that if they belong to that faith (even loosely) it gives them the right to jump on a soapbox and tell the world that what they believe is the only way to go and if you don't believe it you'll go to an undesirable place.  \n\nI understand and appreciate what you're saying and you're free to believe as you wish.  It's the "others" that try to force their beliefs on you that drive most people crazy.  We're free to believe what we'd like to too.  You're right, you can't save anyone's soul.....wish other people would get that and worry about their own souls.
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They leave the faith but are not willing to leave the faith alone.
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Fear motivates fools to faith.
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Very, very good question. \n\nScripture tells us that we are to give up even our own lives for Christ. There is nothing we should hold before God. But life in this world is plagued with commercialism forever taunting us to "please self" and do away with God and His will. We, as Christians, NEED to get back to that place where NOTHING in this life interests us. That's a hard saying, but I think it's true.
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how can you not worship ?
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the more important question, is why you cant spell words like "why", or "the". \n\nPeople believe in God, because they believe in what the bible says. You have the right to chose not to believe, but make your decision based on logical reasoning, search out the answers for yourself, there is a lot of proof that Jesus did walk the earth, and that the things in the bible are true. If you still want to not believe, then so be it... but dont hate on those that do.
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Two things - honest answer is that feeling of being able to give yourself completely to a faith.  That even though there isn't a shred of empirical evidence to support religion, people are still able to accept it.  It gives people a reason for the horrible things that happen in life.  It gives people a purpose when they have none.  I think atheists are too logical and too grounded to give themselves over so completely to a faith that has absolutely nothing to back it up; but sometimes I wonder if being able to believe is something without basis so thoroughly brings about some level of peace...\n\nThe other thing that sucks about being an atheist is having to deal with moronic a-holes telling you you're going to hell.  They're too stupid to realize that there is no hell and that their little fantasy is meaningless; but like gnats flying around on a summer evening they won't go away and they are f*cking annoying.
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I have problems with "faith".  Faith is essentially asking you to believe something that defies logic, science, reason, experience.  This is the one hook that the church must have in order to keep the good believers believing.\n\nOtherwise, if people started thinking and questioning the dogma of their church and the very existence of God and the truth about Jesus, then they might stray away from the Church.\n\nWithout faith, then people may have to start thinking for themselves and develop their own spiritual path without being told what and how to do it.
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I have often wondered about that "term" myself. I do have a belief in God, but I don't follow any religion. I was raised to believe that God was all forgiving, so I see no reason to "fear" God. I agree that we do not need a God to be told what is good and what is bad. We all know within ourselves if something is right or wrong. I do my best to follow what I believe to be right and I try to avoid anything that I know is wrong.  Great Question! \n\nA.H.