RE: The prize of Christianity
March 22, 2013 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2013 at 2:09 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(March 22, 2013 at 1:30 pm)Tonus Wrote: When I was a believer, I would probably have boiled it down to a feeling of security.
Very understandable. I would surmise that there are only a handful of reasons a person would accept a religion, and that one most certainly makes sense. It's probably quite common too.
1.The fear of what happens if you don't believe.
2.The fear that is associated with thinking about there being nothing more.
3.The idea of being rewarded for believing.
4.Plain blind illusory and ignorance.
I'd be willing to bet 3 things:
A. The first two "fear" reasons are probably true for the majority of Christians but is rarely admitted.
B. The third one is what the majority of Christians say their actual reason is (God's love, Their love for God, and life eternal) but is secretly reason 1 or 2.
C. The last one I think is probably the cause of anyone allowing themselves to be convinced by any of it in the first place!
The fear of a Christian alternative surpresses the persuit of knowledge and infects the mind in such a way that logic and reason are ignored and labeled as evil distractions of the truth.
It's exactly what I would do to convince people of a God that isn't real!!!!!
