Why do poeple in our society still believe in Christain Mythology.?
371813
There are a lot of forces involved.\n\nOne is there is a lot of social pressure to believe.  Non believers are commonly shunned by family and friends.  Christianity tell them non believers are foolish and no good.  People growing up in an environment like this associate non belief with immorality and they don't want to consider themselves immoral.\n\nSecond children inherently believe what parent and other elders tell them - it's just human nature.  Religion takes advantage of this by indoctrinating children from birth.  By the time they are old enough to think for themselves, they have been in it too long to see it as the mythology it is.
1084062
having gods doesnt mean people believe in them ... PS: all countries are corrupt in their own way and because India has the largest population you will see more of everything happening here coz there are all the more people to do these things.
1065737
I agree, but apparently most people have never read any of these texts that your talking about.  When you bring it up they will answer with "all cultures had similar stories".  I don't understand if they ever read the stories and saw that they are from what they call Pagan religions with multiply gods and how the same story is written in Genesis and is uncannily similar from the story plot, the sequence of events and even the language how they could deny that the bible was taken from them and changed to one god.\n\nScience has clearly dated these documents and the bible and the other texts are clearly more ancient by many centuries.  But apparently they are afraid that if they read them their belief system will be shattered and that thought may be unbearable to most people.
366406
Unfortunately, most people believe in a supernatural being. Aside from the whole "cult tradition", I believe that people rely on a "god" or the belief in a "god" in order to help them come to terms with their own mortality.  We're taught from a very young age (most of us) to ask where we came from and where we're going after we die. \n\nUnfortunately, instead of realizing on our own that we are complex living creatures who grew from our parents' combined sperm and egg and their DNA and that when we die, our cells die and our bodies rot, we are actually *told* that we are "miracles" and will go somewhere after we die ("heaven" or "hell"). Anyone with common sense and the most basic understanding of science knows this is complete b.s.\n\nI feel sorry for the ladies in your office, and particularly the one who tells you it's a "sin to deny him". It's a "sin" to actively discriminate against people based on their beliefs and lifestyles.\n\nYou have found the real "truth". You should always stick to your guns. We will be labeled "atheists", "sinners", "heathens", "non-believers" and many more worse things, but we will never be as ignorant as "believers".
45015
I thank you for your views, however, there is a huge difference between religion and mythology.\n\nAccording to the Bible, the world - and time - will end when God decides.  Death will come like a thief in the night and no one, but the Father, knows the date or time.
860325
Because there are many people who don't follow the doctrines of your mythological book.\n\nJust like YOU don't follow the laws of Islam, or the Hebrew faith, or worship Zeus and Hercules.\n\nWhy are YOU so ignorant of other people's beliefs?\n\nThe bible is a book. It's a good book. But it is JUST a book.
446420
Society reflects the times prophesied in the Bible.  Everything is according to Gods plan.  The fact that there are still Christians on the earth does reflect in society.  How many Christian hospitals can you name?  How many charitable organizations?  I can name many. \n\nThe fact that God has kept us here is evident, in that COMPLETE moral decay has not taken over, although sometimes I wonder!!!
1040320
I think that yes in time the religions of this society will be considered mythology.I do find it kind of strange that we refer to old religions as mythology. Maybe it's because we think we've disproved them as true. Won't that kick us in the butt when we find out that ours isn't the truth huh?
667487
Humans have almost always looked to one god or another to help them explain things they could not understand as well as to use to control the masses around them ... don't think that the "christain" god is anything other than a new god on the block ... there have always been gods for as long as there have been men and yes, they are the creations of our minds and not the other way around ...
811268
Since pre-history, human beings have had the need and desire to understand the world around them.  The most efficient way to do so was to adopt myth into their daily lives.  These myths speak the archetypal language of the psyche/soul, and, as such, transcend language and culture.  The same figures, the same stories, the same message can be found in the mythology of all religions.\n\nThere are some wonderful books on the subject by comparitive mythologist Joseph Campbell.\n\nThere is no need for confusion.  I would suggest that you believe the way you are most comfortable believing, the way that brings the most meaning into your life.  That is the reason for faith and religion.
306542
Gods and goddesses belong to an infinite class of ideas that are incapable of being proven or disproven.  It's just like primitive people believing that evil demons cause disease - We can show exactly how micro-organisms cause disease, we can produce treatments based on that knowledge which actually work, we can show that people who claim to treat disease in supernatural ways are actually frauds, but we can never *disprove* the idea that demons are involved.  All we can say is that there is no rational reason to believe it.  The same is true of gods - We can't prove they are just imaginary, but there's no rational reason to believe in them.
732583
This is a complex question but in short I think that most people still cling to the idea of us being a christian country because to say otherwise would indicate that we are a faithless nation. I think that the majority of people in the country still believe in God even though the traditional ways of worship have declined drastically.
477516
The bible says "There a way that seems right to a man but in the end is death." Most people believe with as much sincerity as you may about God and the Holy Bible as they would about Allah or Buddha. I belief in Jesus Christ as God in the flesh, some say he was an angle, others would say he was just a man, and the ignorant would say he never existed.
1000059
I took a good, hard look at the Bible and its claims, realized that it is contradictory, untrustworthy, and full of myth, fable, and impossible events, and discarded it as the writings of superstitious people who understood very little about the natural world. After that, it didn't take much reasoning power to draw the same conclusions about other belief systems. I don't believe in BibleGod, or any god, for the same reason that I don't believe in Santa Claus--they don't exist.
1054334
I myself , as a pagan, have wondered that same question many times. the best thing I can think of is that even though we have advanced as a people, there are many who still hold true the values and mores taught to them by family members over the years. What can I say, old habits die hard. THink about it this way, if you are told something by your parents, who was by their parents, who was told by their parents, et cetera, it would be really hard for you to accept anything else.\n Back in merry old England (and the isles), pagans/wiccans were purseued by the Christans who were pretty much forcing everyone to their religion. When the elders of the villages wouldn't heed to the 'younger kids' wishes to converet to CHristianity, they would either fabricate or not totally investigate claims of demon worship, human sacrifice, and other such forms of obsene behavior.  I know that is just one such reason many people shun such religions. This ideology and way of thinking just kind of trickled down through generations, and just hasn't exactly gone away. \nThere are just so many reasons, and I just bearly scratched the surface. I just think that it all boils down to people not accepting what they don't understand and relgious zealots to willing to accept anything other than what they know/believe.
904176
Only in America do people have to be constantly reminded that religious stories are just fairy tales, and are not to be taken seriously. The rest of the civilized world figured that out several centuries ago.
1104227
The beliefs of others are always viewed critically and found to be mythology, while one's own mythology is viewed as fact.\n\nWhat I like about the Hindu god is that you can't corner it, you can't trap it, you can't blaspheme against it because, well, because it's god. The Hindus have one of the highest concepts of god on the planet, and if people think it's stupid because there are cows involved then they simply lack the ability to understand what "infinite" means. That's why such people are limited to worshiping a finite anthropomorphic god made in their own image.