Why do Christians and Those of Other Religions Cling to their Beliefs even when They are Illogical?
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To answer this question, you have to ask yourself: is there an inherent need in humans to beleive in God or a deity?  I beleive in God because I acknowledge that something, whatever it may be exists beyond what we know & understand.  That is to say, i beleive that God isn't what the majority of the world would lead us to beleive.  God is there, but we can't possibly understand it.  To understand God is to be God.  This raises another question: are humans their own individual God, just on a different level?  So if you answer yes to the previous question, I think one might be able to take comfort in their own 'Godness,' and the 'Godness' around you.
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Almost NO ONE CARES what other people believe, but they power trip about their own beliefs and are thrilled if they can "sell" them to someone with "inferior" beliefs or no beliefs at all.\n\nSo people barge in because they think they know better.  Religions are essentially seething cess pools that reek with this kind of busybody arrogance.
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There are many religious people who simply believe what they're told to believe, they don't analyze it or question it, and if someone tells them that someone who doesn't believe in God is an enemy of God, they know from prior knowledge that the only enemy of God is Satan and so people who are the enemy of God must be worshippers of Satan.\n\nNot to say, at all, that any of this is true or believable, but that's the cultish Christian mind-state.
1001366
Yeah, because Christianity does not have any wrinkles. Give me a break, dude. They are both silly religions followed by the weak of mind.
1039247
Its easy, they've been indoctrinated to believe these things from birth, and almost nothing, including logic, will tear them from the oppression of their ideas of how the world works.\n\nThe older a christian, the harder it will be to change their mind\n\n-Nick
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People who have such closed minds never read beyond what they believe to be true, therefore they just make up arrogant assumptions about others. Rather like that dumb cow who thought she should pray for me and my wife because she 'assumed' our marriage was weak! \n\nAssumptions are the mother of all f**k-ups!
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There are two reasons people defend their beliefs so strongly.  \n\n1) Fear of being wrong, and doubt in their own hearts.  Faith in God is truly that.... Faith.  If you are unsure about your own Faith, because we can not see him we have to believe that he exists.  A strong argument makes them feel more steadfast and sure about what is in there own hearts.\n\n2) The other is because they lack the verbal ability to truly communicate what they believe in a calm manner.  They want you to know the same joy of salvation and service but are unable to convey that.\n\nThe Bible says....... Always be ready to give an explanation for your hope to anyone who asks you, but do it with gentleness and reverence.  I Peter 3:15-16.
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because christians get pissed when you make them think! ;)
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Because most of them sincerely believe it to be credible evidence. And, are likewise perplexed when someone refuses to accept it as evidence.\n\nFaith cannot be debated or discussed using logic. Those whose beliefs are based on faith will not be swayed by logical arguments, and those whose beliefs are not based on faith will not be swayed by arguments that rely on faith.\n\nSo, we all ending up arguing/debating about issues that will never be settled. Primarily because we are arguing about apples and oranges (two different philosophies).\n\n\nAdditional comment:\n\nWIth all due respect to those who claim the bible is supported by evidence, it is not.\n\nThere is no credible evidence that supports any of the bible stories, including the Jesus myths. If there was, there would be no debate on the issue.
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I agree with you. Some people have weak minds, and need religion to support them. For some of these people, it's a benefit, for others, a mental parasite. Some people have strong minds yet still hold religious notins dearly. That's the way things are.\n\nI have neither. I am an atheist and a satanist, so I am just giving my outsider's observations.
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Christians are very ignorant of other faiths.  I suppose because they're been raised to think that theirs is the only true faith and that everyone else needs to be converted to Christianity.\n\nIt's getting better though.
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SOME religious people get easily offended because they were convinced by their church that they have THE truth. So they cannot conceive that other people are saying something different.\n\nI think that sometimes people are offended because they realise that others are telling a truth that they are not capable of accepting yet. I'm glad these people get offended, because that means that in the near future, they might get free from the ties of religion.
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You can believe--or not believe--in anything you choose. It's nobody's business but your own. However, there are some people in the world who are profoundly insecure in their faith, and are simultaneously laboring under the delusion that they have all the answers. How lucky for them; it must make one's life easy to have all the answers all the time. And since they feel they have the answers, they feel threatened by questions that challenge their pre-fabricated worldview. These types of people are unable to see shades of grey, so their world is a very two-dimensional black-and-white place. Arguing with them is an exercise in futility, so the best that you can do is wish them peace and carry on with your life.
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Some people can't comprehend anything outside to boundaries of tradition.  They don't have facts... they have beliefs
1119331
Only some Christians....those who's beliefs are fanatical, extremely fundamental, and basically absurd to the sane, awake mind. And, in a general sense, all branches of Christianity are sects...splinters of a basic group.
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Every atheist is different, but it probably stems from the fact that most people simply can't 'believe' that another person can't BELIEVE in something.  After all, they've been trained/ taught/ conditioned since childhood to believe in god or some kind of creator.  To not believe kind of boggles their mind.  So they pre-judge others on their on observations.
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because they are ignorant and stubborn and refuse to consider anything that contradicts their current beliefs, no matter how logical it is or how much evidence there is supporting it.