Religion = brainwashing. You're not born with faith and religion, it's pounded into your head when you're still a child.
Faith is
the result of neural circuitry in the temporal part of the frontal lobe. Without that circuitry, you would have no faith. The circuitry is an evolutionary
mechanism that we, homo-sapien, evolved to help us deal with psychological
trauma. If you get cut, you bleed, a scab forms to protect you from airborne
opportunistic bacteria. The circuitry in your brain does the same thing for
your mind.
Religion,
my friend, is something you feel - like happiness, love, etc - and you are born
with. you can deny or refuse it, maybe because you were raised that way or
maybe you are too attached to this life that you refuse to believe in another,
but you'll always feel it inside of you. thats probably why you're replying to
me, trying to prove to yourself that religion is a lie. stop lying to yourself.
What can I
say, humans are weak and primitive. They'll believe in anything as long as
their little dreamland remains intact. For most humans reality is a scary
thing. So they come up with imaginary friends. Pathetic, incredibly
pathetic.
Well, I think the first question anyone should ask themselves is: what exactly is faith?
ReplyDeleteIs it the light in our lives? Is it a real or unreal idea? Is it an invention?
Personally, I believe faith is something you aquire when you come into this earth. Even if you were uneducated and were totally isolated from the world, you would still have the urge to find some meaning and to find a soloution to the biggest mystery: what happens after death.
I think the actual word "faith" has a negative side to it. It almost seems as if life is so desastrous that our only salvation is to believe in a superior being. How about living your life, being a good person, helping others and letting your destiny take it's course?
I agree with Alexia in the fact that we should live our life in order to feel happy and good with ourselves by helping others. Faith is something that will always cause global discussion as there’s no correct answer to any of the abstract questions about life that every human being has thought about. Everyone assumes that we won’t live forever and so it’s impossible to avoid questioning yourself what happens after death. I think that having faith in something is actually good for you as you know how to achieve what for you can be happiness, however, having faith in something can be very difficult. I don’t understand how people can criticize others for believing in something or vice versa, as everyone is free to live their life the way they want to. I don’t have much faith in religion but that doesn’t mean I refuse people which have or religion itself. Even the extreme atheist person should agree that most of the “rules” imposed by religion are the same as the ones imposed by society and most of us tend to follow them in order to be described as a “good person”.
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In my opinion, having faith is a way of having some kind of safety and answers to all those questions human beings ask themselves. Religion is based in this, giving an abstract prediction about what exists after death, as we all ask ourselves this type of questions.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that having faith in afterlife is just not having the courage to face death. People prefer believing in heaven, reincarnation or others, rather than accepting that there’s an end to their lives. I respect all the opinions about religion and faith, as everyone has de right to believe in what they want, and as Ana said, people should accept other points of view although they do not share the same ideas.
Ana Las Hayas
I totally agree with Ana and I respect all opinions too, but I think religious people believe in faith in order to feel protected and safe in their day to day life. In a way this is understandable since human beings are afraid of death and other aspects of life which we don’t have answers of. Therefore I think that people who believe in faith do not totally accept reality and the fact that, as far as we know, it is impossible to know what will happen after we die, so they stick to what religion says in order to feel safer and have a solid idea of what will happen to them. In my opinion anyone is free to believe in whatever makes them strong and happy, as far as they respect what others think.
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Faith I believe, is natural in human kind, as the scientific explanation states, it is the result of neural circuitry in the temporal part of the frontal lobe. So, therefore, I wouldn’t ask myself does faith exist?, but what variety of faiths exist? Because if it is true that everybody is born possessing faith, then I believe it is the influences they receive which steers their faith to different aspects, and, what tool is powerful enough to influence such a huge mass of minds into believing and having faith in something?, religion. Yes, I attribute faith influence to religion, and I can demonstrate it simply by going through the earlier comments and pointing out the one question everybody relates to faith, what happens after death? And this question, I believe, was created thousands of years ago when religion was just beginning to develop itself as a means of frightening people about what will happen to them if they do not act or live in a certain way, the way that religion sais so. So, what my point is, is that, people can have faith in whatever aspect they decide to, but due to religion, the vast majority have already received its influence and therefore do not relate faith to whatever they could have chosen, but to what religion has chosen.
ReplyDeleteTo all this I would like to point out I am not against any religion or religious people, I totally respect them and their beliefs.
Lucas Drobnitzky
I agree with Ana Adan and think people reject death becouse we humans tend to fear what we don't know.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the reason we invent faith is becouse of this:
Death is the most abract idea we have ever met with and as we are not able to undestand it we don't accept it. This is probably why we all have in ourselves this involunteer FAITH which deletes the meaning of death; THE END.
Altough I defend this previous idea I agree with Ana Recio that there will never be a correct or wrong answer. Never meaning until an alien or someone who knows comes and proves this faith is something like what the woman is talking about and not only an invented coping mecanism.
I feel however Anna Recio,Alexia and Lucas are mixing conecpts and this woman is talking to us about faith, ahe didn't even mention religion.
I do accept religion is a way o fiath and that they are directly related but we must admit it is not the same; religion is also a dictatrship on the way you must live your life in order to achieve happiness which faith is not.
Happines has little to do with faith.
Changing the subject I agree with Anna Las Hayas about the concept that faith is a way we have to try and solve our innate doubts. So faith is a philosophic idea, it tries to find our more about life like the same philosophy.
Although I accept people believing in diferent ways of rejecting death I personally feel they should somehow face the idea that maybe there is absolutely nothing after death. That death is the end and anything else.
I like Lucas accept faith is something scinetificaly proved to be in all of us.
In the other hand I do not believe it is absolutely innate. An example of this is that a christian baby will be probably grown as a christian and will remain christian but this is due to the influeces he has recieved during his life and not becouse he was born christian and would have remained christian forever whatever happened to him.
What you believe comes influenced as the woman in the video says by your experiences.
The thing is... Even though when I heard what she 'TheResident' believed I liked the idea and wanted to apply it to what I believe (I wont talk about it)I do not discard this:
Is it all this she is talking about another copering mechanism?
One which tries to make us feel faith is truth to keeps us believing there is somehting after death and before being born? A way of rejecting death? Again?
Georgina Bastida sorry I didn't put it
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