Do people who excessively use the Bible to answer every question have the inability to think for themselves?
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You mean people like joe and kit-kat above?\n\nyep...brainwashed, gullible, and unable to think for themselves.\n\nsad really...
745216
Hi, I am Rational Spirituality,\n\nI have totally given up sin.  But I did not need the bible for that.  My own conscience and the support by My Divine Spirit Guide, Lysseus, were more than enough.\n\nI know far too many people who wave around the bible in all directions, and have their minds and hearts filled with hate.\n\nWhat does make you to believe that bible may be the only way to giving up sin?
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Christian do have a mind to think otherwise God wouldn't have gievn us one, but my thoughts have over the years being influenced by the bible, Nevertheless I do make a point to paraphrase it to my experience so it is more at human level for someone like you to understand. Check my previous answers, I seldom use bible quotes straight off unless demanded.
753074
No.  I ask the questions to which I want to know the answer.  I ask them once.  My questions have nothing to do with my own faith/religion or lack thereof.  They mostly have to do with my ignorance of other religions.
653940
Well, in my opinion... There's a part of them that's insecure about their faith. When anything (such as the controversial Da Vinci Code) threatens their faith, or attempts to prove it wrong, their defense mechanisms spring up. They know they could be wrong about their faith, and that's what's making them so irate. I think people are starting to forget that the bible is "just a book" too.
1079335
It may settle it for people who believe in the bible.  I don't, so I settle my life issues with my own brain.
507182
Ignorant morons who want their thinking done by surrogate thinkers, because they're too mentally lazy to do it themselves. People who are actually proud of their ignorance, who believe whatever it is their pastors/priests spoonfeed them from that most immoral of books, the Bible.
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Wow, I am amazed at the responses you've gotten so far.\nWe keep hearing about how people who don't believe in God are supposed to be so much more intelligent than those of us who do, and yet, all we here from these educated people is that you should go to school, or read a book...in other words, they can't answer your questions.\nGee, and even when they admit that they can't answer your questions, they throw in an insult, just for good measure....\n\nLooks as if you've hit a nerve, my friend!!
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Absolutely not. That's ridiculous. I think there's a LOT they don't understand. I'm the only Christian one in my family, if I was intellectually lazy I wouldn't believe in God at all, just like them.
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This is one of the problem with religion and the believers. First, most religions made sacrilegious to ask questions about the practices and tenets of their religion. You are told,'you will go to hell or to some horrible place like that'. In most cases, the leaders do not just know, so they put fear factors to restrain their adherents. Secondly, majority of people are contented to allow people to do their thinking for them, they are too lazy to ask or seek out answer for themselves. However, do not be deceived, the only truth is the truth and individual discover for himself by a laborious search, any other is conjectural and speculative. This  is the reason that there are so many interpretation to the teaching of some world religion. Seeking and knowing God  is a do it yourself project, maybe with a bit (less than 0.1%) assistance.
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You can believe--or not believe--in anything you choose. It's nobody's business but your own. However, there are some people in the world who are profoundly insecure in their faith, and are simultaneously laboring under the delusion that they have all the answers. How lucky for them; it must make one's life easy to have all the answers all the time. And since they feel they have the answers, they feel threatened by questions that challenge their pre-fabricated worldview. These types of people are unable to see shades of grey, so their world is a very two-dimensional black-and-white place. Arguing with them is an exercise in futility, so the best that you can do is wish them peace and carry on with your life.
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No but some christians do have the bible so far up there ass that they can see anything else. I am a christian but I do not believe in pushing my beliefs on someone else or got all irate about how someone else believes or acts. I am only responsible for myself and can only make decisions for myself.
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Whoa there. It's not like just anybody can stand up in front of a congregation and twist Scripture! That takes a special kind of talent, when you have to convince people NOT to look it up for themselves. \n\nAsk the F.B.I. Everybody thinks they're so smart, but why are so many people falling for scams and fraud every day? It isn't just when you add "God" or "Jesus," it's when you can say it in a way that persuades and reassures people that you know better than they do.
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Well I think they are so blind - cited with their own righteousness and holier than thou Bull that they forget the true meaning of their religion. The problem is ignorance breads ignorance, and for the most part they are caught up in the passing down this ignorance.\n\nThey also fear what is different from them. And it makes them feel good to consider themselves messengers of God, when they are really just spreading ignorance, closed-mindedness, and fear.
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I have found that theologians will twist the bible to whatever point they are trying to make.  It's not too hard because there are many points that are self-contradicted by the bible itself.  You can use the bible for almost any side of almost any argument.
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Protestants who limit God to the bible have some screws loose  in they're brains...just read John 21:25.
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I think that this is the biggest problem with Christianity.  If you take the whole bible literally, than you aren’t making any logical sense, but it you take parts of it metaphorically than you have to pick and chose which parts to take seriously.\n\nIt’s all pretty self-serving if you ask me.