Top 5 Misconceptions about Religion

[Heyo]

You think ignorance is a quality unique to religious people?

The promotion of ignorance is unique to believers. (Religious and political.)

 

[Augustus]

The promotion of ignorance is unique to believers. (Religious and political.)

There are a fair number of unbelievers here that consistently promote ignorance regarding the (secular) history of religion

Pretty much everyone can, and does, fall victim to significant ideological blindness on some issue or another.

 

[Sand Dancer]

One misconception is when atheists make the case that "Religious people are dangerous", but then show that they're really only talking about conservative Christians.

People forget that it's only the fundamentalists of every religion that are out of touch with reality.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Another misconception is when people speak of Christians in America, but relate all Christians to Republicans/right-wing. (There are a lot of US Christians who are Democrat).

About half are Dem.

 

[Heyo]

There are a fair number of unbelievers here that consistently promote ignorance regarding the (secular) history of religion

Pretty much everyone can, and does, fall victim to significant ideological blindness on some issue or another.

They perpetuate their own ignorance but I doubt they argue against investigating.

 

[Audie]

There are a fair number of unbelievers here that consistently promote ignorance regarding the (secular) history of religion

Vague complaint about persons unknown.

 

[Augustus]

They perpetuate their own ignorance but I doubt they argue against investigating.

They tend to dismiss the very idea of scholarship, evidence and expertise when it contradicts their prejudices.

As bad as any creationist fundy.

 

[Audie]

People forget that it's only the fundamentalists of every religion that are out of touch with reality.

Really. You sure about that?

 

[rational experiences]

If a human knew I came out of the eternal as a pre existing spirit as a human man with a human woman.

And we are their babies as human man human woman.

Then gods earth changed their spirit into dusts. Says the holy human baby now. Our life.

Skeletal dusts are now the origin human first ever bio life. There never was a theory about a human baby.

We live by sexual reproduction and you baby human are lying theists.

So when you advise the baby human and guess what. The first ever human baby lives are also now just skeletal dusts.

It's a determined ancient advice that humans used and applied scientific data about facts of human observation. Wisdom we once said.

A scientist doesn't have to believe a theme from eternal body human to dust human.

As he wants to believe a healthy monkey had a higher life form as a human baby given to it. Then it went back to being just monkey babies.

Yet those origin life bodies are now skeletal dusts too. Or he must believe in magical reincarnation back from dead human skeletal dusts. Now. Or maybe monkey parent bone dusts.

As a mutated monkey today is still a mutated monkey. As monkeys have sex so you can view monkey babies healthy or mutated.

So if you ask just a human so how did a dinosaur change into a monkey. They own no answer. The reason is they aren't a God. Those bodies all just dusts now too.

Hence when humans write advice to other humans not yet born...they did. And told you origin human life is only dusts. Don't believe in human theism it's termed Satanism.

If you theory dusts as a humans beginnings as a living holy human baby...the advice was the nuclear gods inherited body type in gas spirit then converts you into dusts as your warning to yourself. As you aren't origin anything.

If you realise humans nuclear theory understanding didnt re emerge in humans conscious mind until the late 1800s new research studies.

 

[RestlessSoul]

The promotion of ignorance is unique to believers. (Religious and political.)

Yeah, maybe. Or maybe that applies to anyone who can’t abide having their beliefs challenged.

 

[Quintessence]

That people can be religious and scientists at the same time.

Whelp, guess I don't exist then, nor do a lot of my colleagues and co-workers at the university. Wouldn't be the first time we've been told that.

 

[Secret Chief]

Do Buddhists believe in rebirth?

Please don't.

“Firewood, after becoming ash, does not again become firewood. Similarly, human beings, after death, do not live again.”
-Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen.

I consider rebirth to be moment by moment (at best) at the mundane level. At the ultimate, there is no self so there is no thing to be reborn (in the way commonly understood).

"The reason why many modern Zen Buddhists now reject the concept of rebirth, especially the realms of Samsara, is because Zen teaches that what is important is to live in the present. Some of the oldest Zen Buddhist teachings make no claims at all regarding what happens after someone dies, but simply teach that we should live in the moment in order to rid ourselves of suffering."
- Do All Zen Buddhists Believe in Rebirth? - SevenPonds Blog

Buddhism is not a revealed religion, nor is it dogmatic. There's no party line to toe. eg Zen monk Brad Warner:
"Rebirth is a myth that some Buddhists believe in. It might be loosely based on fact. But it might just be a fantasy. I used the word myth to define the Buddhist idea of rebirth. These days a lot of people use the word myth as a synonym for falsehood. But that’s not the proper meaning of the word. A myth is a way of explaining something for which there is no good literal explanation."

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

That religion and science must be at odds with each other.

That people can be religious and scientists at the same time.

This kind of sloppiness is not particularly helpful.

• religious is a perspective
• scientist is a profession

 

[JustGeorge]

This kind of sloppiness is not particularly helpful.

• religious is a perspective
• scientist is a profession

I hope you can manage to forgive grammatical sloppiness. Its been a long week, and I'm far from perfect.

 

[Secret Chief]

What supernatural entity or concept is not "miraculous"?
Many seeming misconceptions are rooted in conflicting definitions.

Fortunately I don't believe in the supernatural.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I hope you can manage to forgive grammatical sloppiness. Its been a long week, and I'm far from perfect.

Long week? It's only Wednesday!

 

[JustGeorge]

Long week? It's only Wednesday!

I know.

 

[Revoltingest]

Fortunately I don't believe in the supernatural.

Good for you.
Although I don't know why you tell me this.

 

[Secret Chief]

Good for you.
Although I don't know why you tell me this.

I like to share.

 

[JustGeorge]

Then you have not only my forgiveness but, also, my heartfelt sympathy.

Thanks, Jay.