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Religion? Whats so facinating?
Posted by Tresure • 9 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: religion blogging
Why is it that as soon as someone starts to blog about religion automatically they get a load more people viewing their blog?
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Really. I know a group you could join that may address your concern:
www.blogcatalog.com/group/the-joy-of-jesus
It takes a lot of work to get readers. Content and marketing help. Good Luck. -
Viral marketing. -
People like arguing whether Jesus is our saviour and the prince of peace or a very gay man. -
people need mystery and intrigue in their lives. Some run a business. Some read celebrity gossip. Some commit crimes. Some gamble. Some do drugs. Some indulge in superstition.
I think it is a coping mechanism to distract people from circumstances, and perhaps from their own culpability in their own problems.-
AKA "crutch."
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There are many bad things you can say about Christianity and it's followers, but I don't think I've met anyone who uses it to avoid culpability. If anything, it vastly increases culpability by making you responsible to Someone Else and His natural law. All the major faiths make it quite clear that there is no such thing as a free lunch. -
two words; DEATHBED CONFESSION
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It's the most important question in life, and deep down in everyones heart, they know there are only two real answers: there is a God, or there is no point to this world and anything in it, and all that need happen is a pushing of a little red button in some far away nation, and this whole world, everyone living in it, every "great" work done in it, all go up in radioactive smoke. Either we are servants of God, or we are piss on the floor.
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Religion is an attempt to find meaning in life and in death. I think that's a quest of interest to many people.-
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I think it's a combination of different fears. Religious people are never 100% sure of their beliefs, so tend to be vocal about it (or at least seek confirming viewpoints) in an effort to bolster their own certainty.
People who aren't religious often want the existence of God to be real, so keep arguing (or at least seeking out arguments) against that existence in the hope that someone will prove them wrong.
It's all a bit sad, when you think about it.-
I don't agree that the non-religious often "want" the existence of god to be real.
I do agree that the religious are not %100 sure of their beliefs, because if they were, they wouldn't merely "believe," they would "know." -
I agree that both motivations can be sad. I don't think those are the only ones, though.
Some non-religious people do NOT want God to be real, because they don't want some "Spirit in the Sky" seeing into their minds and having some influence in their worlds.
Did I get anyone to think of the "Spirit in the Sky" song? No? Shall I type a couple verses? -
It is a bit of a generalization, but I definitely fall into the second category.
I can't bring myself to believe in something so completely illogical (let's get serious here - all the information we have about God comes from people who exhibit the same symptoms as crazy people who see things and a book - and I've written fantasy stories myself. Nor do I believe that any true God would choose to "save" people based on their choice of religion - which has to be due to nothing more than chance. I could go on forever, but why bother when so many others so often do?)
That said, I'd very much like to be proven wrong. (And I mean "proven", not "argued" - because arguments mean nothing in the end.)
One of the benefits of believing in God is that the belief tends to be tied to immortality - which would be great. -
Immortality *could* be great, but it depends on where you spend it.
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Religious people are also very vocal also because it's 1) important and 2) people like to start fights with them. Also because some religions (like Christianity and Islam, and to a lesser degree the Hare Krishna sect of Hinduism) very much encourage their followers to be vocal in order to win converts and guide society in what we see as wisdom from heaven. Also because there's a lot of struggle inherent in faith, not so much with uncertainty about God but ideas that you might not especially like, and somehow you just really want to share the fruits of your toil.
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"a lot of struggle inherent in faith"
Reason vs. Counterintuitivity? -
@Agit8r: Partially, but pride, purpose, freedom vs. obedience, inerrancy vs. errancy, cultural distortion, emotional connections to people and ideas about God and Good, the tendency towards least-resistance that must always be fought, bad but deep-rooted ideas that need to be unlearned (people of faith are unfortunately somewhat gullible) and anything in your nature that is sinful play in to it as well.
""Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. " (Luke 14: 27, NASB, I use biblegateway a lot so these will come from all manner of translations.)
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Treasure, did you start this thread so that you'd get more blog traffic? How do you know we get more blog traffic, anyway?
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I don't know that they do. It just seems to me like religion is a major topic which alot of people blog about.
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