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What are the biggest problems between the religious and non-religious

We Never Know

No Slack
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
It seems to me that the main problem here is in reaching some common basis of understanding of what constitutes religious ideas.

Most of the items in your list are not religious matters in any way, shape or form.
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
As a liberal I believe in secular states over theocratic ones.
The reason I care about what others believe is because I don’t want my secular nation changed into a theocracy.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
It seems to me that the main problem here is in reaching some common basis of understanding of what constitutes religious ideas.

Most of the items in your list are not religious matters in any way, shape or form.

Hmmm. And to think I thought the bible stories, god, and faith had to do with religion. Can you elaborate why they don't?
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
it's that sense of direction.....as we approach the grave

I do suspect...mindset is important

death takes one and all
what happens after that last breath is pivoted on your belief
or lack thereof
 

leov

Well-Known Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
I learned that everyone is climbing up or sliding down on evolution of consciousness ladder. I understand that very slowly we going up on average. There are non human entities that want us up or down. Going up lead us to more mutual respect and care. I watch the progress on the ladder and try to help upward movement as much as my ego gets compressed.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Hmmm. And to think I thought the bible stories, god, and faith had to do with religion. Can you elaborate why they don't?
God is a religious concept... but belief in god, I strongly suspect, is actually a deviation from religion proper. It is certainly not healthy for religion far as I can see. Gods are not entities whose existence would be relevant for a proper religious practice, but rather who should be invoked as sources of inspiration with the proper care.

Evolution falls under the field of biology. As so-called Creationism so painfully and so passionately shows, that is simply not within the scope of the Bible, and arguably not even of Christianity proper.

The same argument applies to science in general; whatever merits the Bible may have, they are not scientific in nature, and IMO never attempted to be. But that is just a specific example of a more general situation: science is science. Religion is not expected to try to compete with it, mainly because it is ill suited for that purpose. Religion as I understand it is a tool for balancing individual and universal demands and needs. Science is a tool for learning about reality in a reliable way. The difference is quite significative.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
The biggest problem is lack of tolerance for ideas that people disagree with.
 

Back2Love

New Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
Both religious and non religious can be horribly obnoxious too each other.:rolleyes:
 

HonestJoe

Well-Known Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
Who owns different bits of land, whether certain actions or behaviours should be criminalised, how children should be brought up to best contribute to society. Basically the same arguments/disagreements that happen when religion isn’t involved too. Actually religious debates themselves aren’t specifically more important in the grand scheme of things (regardless of how important they might be to the individuals involved).

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?
Why does it matter so much to people what side we take on issues like immigration, healthcare or the military? Beliefs themselves aren’t an issue but beliefs typically lead to actions and consequences so regardless of what your beliefs are or what you base them on, they’re going to be or relevance to other people around you.
 

Darkforbid

Well-Known Member
This again?

Atheists who think rhetoric is a form of logic

Atheists who insist that atheism can only be understood by atheists

Atheists that reduce all the work written about Atheism to a single line dictionary entry

Young earth creationists
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?

Possibly the concept that there is any 'divine' creator, and the affirmative answer to such driving all sorts of fabrications, IMHO. Why does it matter? Because our lives are at stake. Division (as in all the various faiths) is not conducive to this.
 

SA Huguenot

Well-Known Member
-faith - I dont like the faith of Atheism. it can never be read in a book, studdied in a class, explained by an adherend, they change their stories every moment, and uses your unchangeble scriptures with deception.
-god existing/not existing - He does, He even visited Mankind and lived with us.
-evolution - another unproven theory which is disproved by many biologists such as Behe in his book "Darwins' black box. Atheists anyhow dont even know what darwin wrote.
-science in general - Atheists gets mad when they find out that the Western civilisation's Christians were the ones who formulated science from the Bible. They hate to learn that every scientific principle was due to Christians who could think. newton said anyone who thought so long and hard about what he discovered would have come to the same conclusions he did. He also said Atheists are fools.
-the bible stories - are the only stories on Earth that was supported by Archaeology during the past 200 years. prior to that Atheists critisized every fact from the Bible as fiction only to learn year by ear, digging by digging, discovery by discovery, that not a single archaeological evidence contradicted the Bible.
-etc - Oh, ETC. is the thing we can talk about much longer, But I dont think the Atheists would like to learn how poorly their religion holds to the Christian one.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
What are the biggest arguments/disagreements between religious and non-religious groups(see below for examples) and why does it matter to you.
-faith
-god existing/not existing
-evolution
-science in general
-the bible stories
-etc

Why does it matter so much to each side on what the others accept or what the others believe?

I personally dont care what someone believes, as
long as it does not affect me.

UNFORTUNATELY, the theists, as a historical and
present thing, cannot stand it if they do not
affect everyone and everything with their goofy ideas.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
God is a religious concept... but belief in god, I strongly suspect, is actually a deviation from religion proper. It is certainly not healthy for religion far as I can see. Gods are not entities whose existence would be relevant for a proper religious practice, but rather who should be invoked as sources of inspiration with the proper care.

Evolution falls under the field of biology. As so-called Creationism so painfully and so passionately shows, that is simply not within the scope of the Bible, and arguably not even of Christianity proper.

The same argument applies to science in general; whatever merits the Bible may have, they are not scientific in nature, and IMO never attempted to be. But that is just a specific example of a more general situation: science is science. Religion is not expected to try to compete with it, mainly because it is ill suited for that purpose. Religion as I understand it is a tool for balancing individual and universal demands and needs. Science is a tool for learning about reality in a reliable way. The difference is quite significative.

The bible writers had no concept of "science", but I very
much doubt they wrote up the flood and that other
garbage in the sure and certain knowledge that none
of it was true.

Concocting it into having been some sort of metagory
now that the utter nonsense of it is so obvious,
seems to me deeply ingenuous, at best.
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
The bible writers had no concept of "science", but I very
much doubt they wrote up the flood and that other
garbage in the sure and certain knowledge that none
of it was true.

Concocting it into having been some sort of metagory
now that the utter nonsense of it is so obvious,
seems to me deeply ingenuous, at best.
the garden event was a science experiment
 

We Never Know

No Slack
I personally dont care what someone believes, as
long as it does not affect me.

UNFORTUNATELY, the theists, as a historical and
present thing, cannot stand it if they do not
affect everyone and everything with their goofy ideas.

From what I see a lot, both sides are pretty pushy.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Possibly the concept that there is any 'divine' creator, and the affirmative answer to such driving all sorts of fabrications, IMHO. Why does it matter? Because our lives are at stake. Division (as in all the various faiths) is not conducive to this.

Everyone dies. The disagreements are on what happens after one dies. Fact is no one knows.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
From what I see a lot, both sides are pretty pushy.

If you are suggesting there is some sort of parity,
that is very unrealistic.

Atheism, unlike godism, is inherently a live and
let live. It would be like two people who dont
care a thing about football fighting over who
is less interested or involved.

The football people, otoh, can be quite obnoxious
with taking over the schools, and, on another level,
a friend of friend got fired from a construction
job because he did not fit in-he was not a footballist.

And as for atheists being pushy, "push back" is
not at all the same as "push".

All that I see atheists doing in the public arena
is such as working to reverse the centuries old
practices like forced prayers in school,
and public money otherwise spent to promote
someone's religious ideas.

For that matter, atheists are not noted
for dragging everyone into a war over
who has the right brand of atheism.
 
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