RE: Why are Christians scared to die?
January 30, 2016 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2016 at 1:26 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(January 30, 2016 at 11:28 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Instinct and beliefs are 2 separate things. [...]
No, not really. Those are just labels we put on things we think and do. They're largely arbitrary and very intertwined, especially on subconscious level. Some of your beliefs - including many religious ones - are just your instincts, that you accepted and aggrandized. Not to mention, that you use instinct and intuition, in order to cherry-pick through all the horrible stuff in the bible and choose the more agreeable bits to believe in.
For example - you instinctively know, that smart people, who do science are more likely to understand biology, history and such, than - say - a bunch of savages in the desert 3000 years ago. So - all of a sudden - Genesis is allegorical, you don't believe in its literal interpretation and you do accept evolution. But you also have an instinct to accept beliefs of your parents and other people in your community - and so you believe in all the catholic stuff...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
