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A Religious Animal

Angel,

well written.

Man has had a longing for God since the beginning's of time.

To go against God and His plans of Salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ, is to go against all that we were created for.

The OP said religious, not Christian.
 
Man is a religious animal

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Just as Man is a social animal,

Just as Man is a political animal,

Indeed just as Man is a rational animal

So too is Man a religious animal

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From the primitive cave painting to the Sistine Chapel,

Man has tried to connect with Divinity

Before the later revelations,

Before the visions and covenants that came later,

Before the tribal organization of religion,

From the very beginning

Man sought connection (religare, to bind fast) to the Spirit


Religion is in Mankind's DNA

Religion is in the nature of Man

To deny the religious impulse in Man
To decry the religious experience in Man
To defy the institution of religion
Is the Height of Folly
Is the Depths of Despair

Religion is the Signature of Man

Hardly. This is why all of the make dominator God religions have always had to be spread through violence, war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and subjugation.
 
so man likes your god and thats why he invented every other religion?
Demons want to sit on God's throne and be thought of and worshiped as God Creator. So, they masquerade as the Almighty One, deceiving the masses and leaving a number of false God's and religions in their path.

hmm well i suppose your god could exist and that not doing what it wants could be going against what we weer made for
My God is three persons in one godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

but that seems like a good thing i dont think you should punish people forever because you dont like what they do especially if they are not hurting you
God is the sovereign ruler over all mankind. He is a righteous God and must punish sin. The judgment of mankind has been handed down to Jesus. He is also the believer's Savior. If you have faith in Christ, ask Him for the forgiveness of your sins, and repent, you will not suffer the unhealthy condition of hell. Hell is quite simply being without God and His love in the afterlife.

and it dosent make sense that you would have to harm an innocent person or yourself to be able to say you can forgive other people
Who are we to question our Creator?

if you have a mind of your own what you want matters more then what your Creator wanted you for but i guess that can be the same thing
Our Creator knows what's best for us. He knows what we need, even when we don't. And He has our best interest at heart. God did not create us to be an evil spirit in the unhealthy condition known as hell. He created us to be with Him, the angels, family and friends in the blissful condition of heaven.
 
They are all welcome. I'm eager to hear what they have to say. I'm hoping the OP will have a heuristic effect on them.

Why, Angel? Don't cha know...it's gonna be the same, old tired rhetoric we've heard before...they ruin every thread they enter...
 
(For anyone interested in this unimportant contretemps, see posts #5 & #8)

Here's an analogy which may buffer your self-awareness, blarg.

The tone deaf person who denies the inherent musicality in the rest of mankind.

Get it now?

o so your just saying its a common trait and that its the mark of humanity because only humans do it ok then

why would you say its folly and despair not to believe in religions though?
 
Why, Angel? Don't cha know...it's gonna be the same, old tired rhetoric we've heard before...they ruin every thread they enter...
You know, "Hope springs eternal," Elvira. If even one of them recognizes the error of his ways, it will be worth having to endure all the noise.
 
The tone deaf person who denies the inherent musicality in the rest of mankind.
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche​
 
Let's see if I understand your post -- you disagree with the OP thesis. Yes?
Duly noted.
Maybe no one will notice that you have nothing on which to base your disagreement and that it flies in the face of everything we know about Mankind.
God bless you, pilgrim.

No, I merely observed that all you offered was unsupported bare assertions.

Maybe no one will notice that you've offered nothing credible to to demonstrate their validity.

Oh, wait. They already have and you're already just babbling the same nonsense.
 
Let me see. Because blarg is devoid of religious sensibility, everyone is devoid of religious sensibility, and has been for fifty thousand years and more.
Wow.
If I didn't know what a humble fellow you are, blarg, I'd be drawn to a rather different surmise by your post.
Peace out, brother.

That's not even remotely what he stated.

Why be so dishonest?
 
You know, "Hope springs eternal," Elvira. If even one of them recognizes the error of his ways, it will be worth having to endure all the noise.

Pope is talking here about how the book of fate is hidden from us, leaving us unknowing about anything but the "page prescrib'd," our present state, and why this lack of foreknowledge is a blessing that spares us from unbearable suffering:

Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n,
That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n:
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore!
What future bliss, he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44899/an-essay-on-man-epistle-i
 
No, I merely observed that all you offered was unsupported bare assertions.

Maybe no one will notice that you've offered nothing credible to to demonstrate their validity.

Oh, wait. They already have and you're already just babbling the same nonsense.
What unsupported bare assertions" are you referring to, T? That Man is a social animal? That Man is a political animal? That Man is a religious animal?
Open your eyes! Look around you! Read some history, some anthropology.
We get it. You don't agree with the facts. But that's not our problem.
Peace.
 
Hardly. This is why all of the make [sic] dominator God religions have always had to be spread through violence, war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and subjugation.
Where did you get this awful idea that religion spreads in the ways you enumerate? You're listening to the wrong people, my friend. Just take a breath and consider for a moment. How are genocide and ethnic cleansing, for example, supposed to make converts? This makes no sense.
 
Demons want to sit on God's throne and be thought of and worshiped as God Creator. So, they masquerade as the Almighty One, deceiving the masses and leaving a number of false God's and religions in their path.

My God is three persons in one godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

God is the sovereign ruler over all mankind. He is a righteous God and must punish sin. The judgment of mankind has been handed down to Jesus. He is also the believer's Savior. If you have faith in Christ, ask Him for the forgiveness of your sins, and repent, you will not suffer the unhealthy condition of hell. Hell is quite simply being without God and His love in the afterlife.

Who are we to question our Creator?

Our Creator knows what's best for us. He knows what we need, even when we don't. And He has our best interest at heart. God did not create us to be an evil spirit in the unhealthy condition known as hell. He created us to be with Him, the angels, family and friends in the blissful condition of heaven.

if god is all powerful why not stop the demons or openly communicate with every one making it impossible to device any one about god?

and what evidence do you have for the demons existing and doing this

god with 3 bits ok


still dont get what Righteousness and sin are supposed to be other then what you say your god says it is is their more to it then that?
it s nice god is willing to give us space but what kind of actions is he out to punish and what kinds of punishment if these are not all about preventing harm and making up for past harm we have inflicted on 1 another in the judgment of are victims then that is not justice.
And if its unhealthy to be away from your god why would you need to ask the one person you cant harm for forgiveness in order to be with them especially if that person is supposed to love you?

we are the people who can think to question your story's about a Creator and if those story's are true we are beings created with the ability to question it and hold values of are own and to make judgments by are Creator

hmm how is hurting some one whats best for us? and evil is up for all of us to determine its just a list otherwise
id give hanging out with your god a chance to see what hes like why all the strings attached and the secrecy?
 
Where did you get this awful idea that religion spreads in the ways you enumerate? You're listening to the wrong people, my friend. Just take a breath and consider for a moment. How are genocide and ethnic cleansing, for example, supposed to make converts? This makes no sense.

well you could kill or drive away a lot of people that dont believe what you do then use the newly freed up space and resources to breed more people who will i guess
 
o so your just saying its a common trait and that its the mark of humanity because only humans do it ok then

why would you say its folly and despair not to believe in religions though?
I believe what I said was that the denial of the importance of religion to mankind is folly and despair, blarg.
Please check this and verify.
 
I believe what I said was that the denial of the importance of religion to mankind is folly and despair, blarg.
Please check this and verify.

o ok then

maker sense its had a big impact

so folly checks out not sure about despair
 
o ok then

maker sense its had a big impact

so folly checks out not sure about despair
Have you ever experienced an existential crisis?
Does the phrase "dark night of the soul" mean anything to you?
Do you know what "the sickness unto death" is?
 
What unsupported bare assertions" are you referring to, T? That Man is a social animal? That Man is a political animal? That Man is a religious animal?
Open your eyes! Look around you! Read some history, some anthropology.
We get it. You don't agree with the facts. But that's not our problem.
Peace.

No, those aren't what I was referring to, as is clear to any honest adult.

Try learning to read a thread better. That, or simply knock off your intellectual dishonesty.

I already stated: "No, it's neither the 'height of folly' nor the 'depth of despair' nor the 'signature of man".
 
What an odd question. Of course I read it. It's how I know you're being transparently dishonest about it.
What an odd reply. Your unfamiliarity with the posts in question is patent. So again I say, Physician, heal thyself. Do you know what that expression means? Perhaps the problem lies there.
 
What an odd reply. Your unfamiliarity with the posts in question is patent. So again I say, Physician, heal thyself. Do you know what that expression means? Perhaps the problem lies there.

Not in the least. You dishonestly misrepresented what he posted.

No biggie, you do that all the time.
 
No, those aren't what I was referring to, as is clear to any honest adult.

Try learning to read a thread better. That, or simply knock off your intellectual dishonesty.

I already stated: "No, it's neither the 'height of folly' nor the 'depth of despair' nor the 'signature of man".
What is "neither the 'height of folly' nor the 'depth of despair'"? Show your bona fides and provide a subject, yes?
And the "signature of man" is a characterization, not an "unsupported bare assertion" as you would have it.
By the way, is there an opinion on the OP theme anywhere within your ken, are will you be posting about me exclusively in this thread?
 
Not in the least. You dishonestly misrepresented what he posted.

No biggie, you do that all the time.
Quote his posts (if you know which ones you're talking about) and let's examine its semantics together in the open. That'll settle this non-issue.
 
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