Why Are You Religious, or non/anti-Religious? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

aklim · #11 01-21-2011, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

I don't think religious belief based on lifelong habit is the best. When Jesus said 'you must die and be reborn as children' (approx.) I think he meant that one must shed one's prior beliefs and look at things with the fresh gaze of a child.

Also Jesus went through some rather extreme sort of vision-quest like efforts - 40 day fast - in search of understanding.

The naive gaze perhaps? So it is more amenable to being manuplated the way the belief wants? Know of many religious beliefs that want a constant challenge? A kid believes in Santa because he goes to bed and the tree is empty. Comes down in the AM, the tree is full of goodies. Since Mom & Dad didn't do it, well, that kinda leaves Santa. Kid doesn't have the capacity to ask more.

Allegedly. Question. If he did, considering the healthcare system then, could he have survived 40 days? If he didn't, that thing is a lie. If he did survive and thrived, perhaps he either cheated or he isn't really human. If it is the former, he is a fraud. If it is the latter, he isn't really human so he might be setting an impossible example since he definitely isn't human.

Who knows. Maybe the wife is right and I have Aspergers and I can't see these sort of things. It would explain why I always questioned the Fairy Tales I was read since I didn't believe the trees could talk.