What simple question would be awesome to ask a religious man?
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“What is your favorite ice cream flavor?”
This one…It puzzled me how to answer this question.
Q: What simple question would be awesome to ask a religious man? That would puzzle him?
A: Why do so many people have trouble finding faith, or understanding others faith?
“When is something actually awesome?”
Have you ever looked in the mirror & asked yourself “am I a fool?”
“How many altar boys have you raped?”
Jacob:
Every person who… chooses the service of God as his life’s work has something in common. I don’t care if you’re a preacher, a priest, a nun, a rabbi or a Buddhist monk. Many, many times during your life you will look at your reflection in a mirror and ask yourself: am I a fool? I’m not going through a lapse; what I’ve experienced is closer to awakening.
Quote taken out of From Dusk Til Dawn, seems reasonable to me.
Why (if an unbeliever) am I too blind to save myself?
On what basis do you believe what your religion teaches?
Are you an atheist as far as the flying spaghetti monster goes?
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Can you truly believe that your religious beliefs are more valid than others?
Why do you put up with disrespectful atheists that are trying to push your buttons?
How does your having faith affect the rest of the population?
* knock knock *
Hello sir, I hope you’re having a fine Saturday morning. Do you have a moment to talk about radioactive decay clocks and natural selection?
What do the Buffalo Sabres need to do to win a Cup?
The Eutthyphro question addressed by Plato:
Does God do things because they are right, or are they right because God does them?
If God does things because they are right then God acts according to an external standard and is not free.
If things are right just because God does them, then the acts of God are purely arbitrary.
My personal favorite question to ask of religious people. which I have asked on this site and not been given a satisfactory answer:
What difference does it make whether or not God exists? Specifically, what do you do differently because of your belief in God?
Have you talked to god, and was she nice?
I talk to religious people all the time, specifically Christians. I just talked a Christian preacher last weekend. I used to have long conversations with Jehova’s Witness people about their beliefs back when I lived in Mass. It interests me how complex their beliefs can get. It’s also interesting how adamant they are about them yet they’re not even proven, and I end up always challenging their beliefs. The problem is there’s no way of persuasion, and they talk to you as what they are saying is 100% true and whatever you say is invalid. So you really have to dig deep to get a thoughtful answer out of them.
One I always like to ask is “Do you acknowledge other people’s beliefs?” followed by “And how do you know that your belief, or all of the belief systems out there, is the one true belief?” The preacher I talked to responded that (this is paraphrased) “there can only be one truth. It explains the truth in the bible.”
@Hypocrisy_Central‘s question would be an interesting one to ask to a Christian. They say that everyone experiences Jesus, they just have to be open to him. But why are some people so blind that they cannot save themselves and see Jesus? Another question I’d ask along with this is “If somebody lives a moral life following all of the moral teachings of Jesus, but never believed in a God, then are they worthy to enter the Kingdom of God?”
I get political, too. “When you vote, do you consider the fact that we have a secular government?”. Sometimes I get particular and say something like “If you had a ballot voting for or against gay marriage, what would you put?”
Honestly: I am very reluctant to enter this thread, because it is inviting all kinds of militant views from either side to start clashing again.
There is however one dilemma, which has to do with God creating all and everything and being omnipotent.
If God indeed is the source of all, omnipotent and therefore not bound by rules, then how can one trust His word? If God (akin @LostInParadise, reference to Euthyphro) is the source of morals, then he is not bound by them, so He can chose to either lie to us or not. Whatever he’d chose to do would be right. If He is therefore the source of morality, then why trust the bible, Torah or Qur’an?
If He isn’t the source of morality, then why don’t we look for the true source of it?
So…
“If one believes that God indeed is the source of all, including morality, and (therefore) not bound by rules, then how can one trust His word?” (If He is bound by rules, where did those rukes come from?)
Why did God use another God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if he is all mighty?
I am hoping to find that answer myself
Ask him to pray for you. If you’re an atheist and sincere about it, you might blow his mind.
@snowberry – how could that not come across as saying, “Hey, next time you’re talking to yourself, think about me.”
Why do you want to blow a religious man’s mind by asking him a trick question?
It’s to do something with your ego?
@dxs @whitenoise @antimatter
Those are many great questions. You should ask them in another thread. They all have answers, believe it or not. Since I just found the last of the dirks, daggers, and shanks from the other religious question that spanned 50+ comments, PM me if you really want to know, less militant members on the side of the cross and the side of the pentagram start going Neanderthal on each other again.
@snowberry Ask him to pray for you. If you’re an atheist and sincere about it, you might blow his mind.
Not really, maybe a milk Christian but not one on meat.
Y’all just mad because Satan is less evil than the opposing god.
Why do you think that YOUR chosen religion is the “right” one, out of thousands?
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