RE: Whats even attractive about Christianity anyway that people want to stay in ignorance
February 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm
(February 29, 2012 at 4:35 pm)picto90 Wrote: Well, I think a lot of it based on fear. If you're taught from a young age that it is a fact that not being a Christian means eternal suffering in the worst place imaginable, of course you're going to choose the boring sermons and ridiculous stories simply out of fear of that place.
That is a factor, but it wouldn't explain why other people of other faiths don't believe in it due to fear of punishment.
It seems rather it's more complicated then that. When we are indoctrinated, even if it's hinduism that doesn't threaten us with punishment for not believing, we are inclined to believe in that religion and believe our parents have the right religion. For some reason, we believe our parents must be right, and other religions are wrong.
Then we grow up, and the strong feeling that it is correct is not totally gone, but diminished, and we have a bias, out of love our identity, our parents, our religious community, to be right.
The bias is so strong, that reading our holy book or teachings, will seem all perfect, with perfect wisdom, logical, beautiful, and glorious. We will feel we are arriving at the sacred truth.
We will feel then guided by God. We feel we achieved a certain enlightenment.
Then we will take that experience as proof of the religion.
All the problems that are in the holy book or teachings, will not occur to us, and may never occur to us, and we may never come across them. Even if it occurs to us, we might brush the problem aside with a different flawed logic.
At any rate, this is not unique to any religion. So we shouldn't make it as if certain religious people are more illogical then others.
For whatever reason, we humans are not objective towards the truth. We have to face our bias constantly.
