Gullibility - a key to heaven?

[theeleven]

See this is why religious people are so easily led. Think about your logic...If you knew you were being controlled you would realize that you were only a sheep in the herd. Ever wondered why they refer to Jesus as your shepherd? Also, you should logically think through the fact that faith is they're only answer to every criticism upon their beliefs. Would you believe that if you closed your eyes on the highway for one whole minute while driving on the highway you wouldn't have an accident because you had faith in your safety?

One thing I will say for us Christians we do know better than to drive down the road with our eyes closed, please let me know when you're going to be driving, you scare me.
Now for the serious side of things, you need to go and study what the shepherds of old were all about, then you might change your mind about why Christ is called our shepherd, probably not, you wouldn't be interested in the truth. I use far more than faith to defend my knowing that Christ is my savior. Now back to your driving assertion, if I put faith in my ability to drive with my eyes closed I would be foolish, and deserve to have an accident. However to have faith in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God makes complete sense, even if you do not see it that way.

Nice try, but you're point is invalid. If you had the ability to rationalize this subject you would understand that putting faith into the ability to drive with your eyes closed would lead to an accident because there can be empirical proof that it would lead to you crashing into something which is why you believe it to be foolish; because you know it would happen. However your belief that faith in God makes sense is only because your brain can't deal with the fact that you can not fully understand the complexity of the physical world around you (and I'm not saying I can either because that would be your first impulsive response to this which of course you will now disagree with in your reply), nor can you truly find a non faith based purpose for your existence in this world therefore your brain tries to find the easiest solution to solve the chaos of this uncertainty (i.e. insert god here). With all that said, I ask you this: Why would a omniscient being such as your god (who is apparently the only one of his species in existence created in the absence of the reality that he supposedly created) be so interested in what happens here on earth that he judges us for our wrongdoings, watch us die of natural disasters, kill ourselves in pointless wars (in which more people have died for religion than any other cause), or even judge us over the fact of whether we believe in him or not? Is life some kind of galactic Jerry Springer show for him? If he was a human being you would consider him an a$$hole. I'm sorry, but if he does exist in any other form but your mind, I'm siding with Lucifer. So come back to me when you have a reply that actually presents a realistic argument other than regurgitating what you were brought up to believe.

The implication is that the faithful are the "flock" who have to be tended. This is in part inspired by Jesus's injunctions to Peter, "Feed my sheep"