Question:
Christians, what happens when you find rules of your religion to be illogical or ridiculous?
2009-07-24 14:10:47 UTC
Do you question them?

Like not wearing mixed fibers, not eating clams or not having homosexual relationships?
Twenty answers:
2009-07-24 14:13:39 UTC
I pray away the logic that is making what i know is true seem ridiculous.
JAMES K
2009-07-27 06:52:21 UTC
You must first determine if those rules were created by a particular person or whether they are rooted in the Holy Bible (or whatever is the book of your faith).

Wearing mixed fibers sounds very much like a person's preference. I would not even bother searching the Bible for reference to it before rejecting it.

The Bible does say much about what to eat and what not to eat. If you look closely, you will find that following it 3,000 years ago went a long way toward avoiding food poisoning. They were practical rules for a non-technological people very often living a nomadic lifestyle.

In the days of refrigerators and stoves, some things need a closer look to see if they are applicable.

As to homosexual relationships, the average life span in those days was 30. If you made it to 40 you were doing well. Sixty, well, you were indeed venerable.

A homosexual lifestyle does little for procreation.

Inclinations were recognized, but when you are trying to keep your race in existence, personal preference has to take a back seat to ensuring the next generation.

The rules in the Bible are neither illogical nor ridiculous. SOME can, however, such as dietary restrictions, become outdated.
MommaDoo
2009-07-24 14:14:14 UTC
I questioned it at 12, decided what to believe and haven't looked back. I

believe.



The things you mentioned are not a part of my Christian beliefs. I believe that all people should have the same rights and I have never heard of the mixed fibers and clams.
2009-07-24 14:15:58 UTC
You're thinking of Judaism. Jews are prohibited from eating clams and wearing wool mixed with linen. Christians are allowed to wear mixed fibers and eat clams.
chretien
2016-10-30 05:10:25 UTC
As considered one of Jehovah's Witnesses, i detect not something illogical concerning the Bible. the certainty that it does have logical order to all issues Jehovah has achieved is a convenience that I easily have discovered the certainty of God. this is the two humorous and unhappy to me to hearken to human beings of different religions attempt to describe what they think of is in the Bible. unhappy in the experience they're being misled. humorous like Abbot & Costello's "who's on First" ordinary. The strategies do not make experience and leaves them ultimately with frustration. Trinity, immortal soul, all and sundry going to heaven--those do not make experience to every person with a reasoning strategies. How that all and sundry is right here, bypass there, then the place, then right here returned or who's on First. The Bible exhibits none of those are authentic ideals from the Bible. All come from pagan religions frequently Egyptian or Babylonian adjusted to in super condition the words of Christianity by way of the two fake Christians centuries in the past. Now they're familiar as certainty by way of persons who've under no circumstances been taught to look it up. Such approaches jointly as great for fake faith make human beings the two waiting to settle for the programming of madmen. How human beings ask ought to all those Germans have offered into Hitler's schemes? They as others have been already conditioned to settle for what an expert determine stated as gospel somewhat if it made them sense good. As 2 Timothy 4:4 says, "have their ears tickled." human beings raised in the so-called Christian religions of the international initially did the comparable component with Jim Jones, at last ingesting the Kool-Ade. None required a logical, life like answer they might seek for and discover for themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses are taught to do. So it grow to be uncomplicated to lead those human beings everywhere the madmen needed.
Outsidein
2009-07-24 14:16:52 UTC
Head explodes. And/or the shock to the system prompts further questioning beyond blind faith, resulting in the mind being birthed into a new dawning light of reason, common sense and logic. Hopefully to be incorporated with the good things from the past religious life.



VIVA LA MENTAL REVOLUTION!!
?
2009-07-24 14:17:14 UTC
We follow the word of God. King James Version. There is nothing illogical or ridiculous about it. I will be praying that you pick one up and let the word of God enter you. He is always there for you. Give it a try, it can't hurt.
2009-07-24 14:15:06 UTC
I'm not a Christian, but I can't imagine anybody making an illogical rule.

Rules aren't supposed to be logical. They're structure. The only logic behind them could be the intent, not what they restrict.
DA
2009-07-24 14:17:53 UTC
The Christian religion's rules are very simple, they are the Ten Commandments. They are very logical and wise:



Example: Thou shalt not kill



Makes sense to me?
2009-07-24 14:14:58 UTC
Nothing is illogical and nothing is ridiculous in christianity.
djmantx
2009-07-24 14:17:01 UTC
I read the Bible throughout and accepted the atonement and received the Holy Spirit. It becomes important to know God.
2009-07-24 14:16:28 UTC
When you don't quite understand something, you trust in God. You have faith that God knows what's going on. It's not that hard to have faith. For instance, do you understand everything about how a computer works? No? But you still use it, that's faith.
teal'c
2009-07-24 14:14:44 UTC
they avoid them and continue along their merry way. besides if they thought it to be illogical or ridiculous they wouldn't follow that religion. everyone cant be ned flanders and follow the things in the bible that contradict the other things.
2009-07-24 14:15:11 UTC
I remember Mao (ATHEIST) killing 35,000,000 people and I find it both illogical and ridiculous.

Spare me the non-structuralist argument "he did not kill in the name of Atheism", he did...
F
2009-07-24 14:15:49 UTC
do what they always do and change it to suit them selves!



basically your saying your gay, and it says in the bible follow your heart and dont judge something like that IT CONTRIDICS ITSELF
LoveMyMommyLife
2009-07-24 14:14:00 UTC
That is why I am no longer a christian



You do not need religion to be believe in God
2009-07-24 14:13:52 UTC
when is when?



when i die?

at that time i will either be in heaven or be dead and unable to think......
2009-07-24 14:21:14 UTC
YOU ARE TAKING EVERYTHING OUT OF CONTEXT!!!



You probably heard the name of "SLAUGHTER HOUSE RELIGION" given to Christianity. ALL Christians need to snack God the Son Jesus Christ in some way as part of the “salvation” package. Jesus talked about eating his meat and drinking his blood to go to Heaven when you die! It has nothing to do with “sins”… unless you are into some morbid fetish!



John 6:53 (KJV) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you (DUCK!), Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.



It takes years of Christian and/or Catholic schooling to learn how to serve the Holy Communion just right, or Christians can get real sick and die! Protestants have relaxed this warning, but Catholics still believe that the Host* (*wafer) and Wine is magically transformed into the ACTUAL spit flavored Meat and sweaty Blood of Jesus. In some parishes extraordinary measures are taken after Mass to monitor that no trace of the body of Jesus Christ is found in any spent chewing gum stuck under the Church pews, or anywhere else!



1 Corinthians 1:29-30 (KJV) For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many SLEEP* (*have died. More Mafia talk! Low IQ Christians who are sick are screwing up the Holy Communion, or how else can they get sick? Spiritually speaking, of course!).



The Christian writers of the NT were delighted to declare that in fulfillment of Bible prophecies Jesus Christ’s flesh was beaten to a pulp, thoroughly tenderized, and heavily marinated in Roman soldiers’ spit, as the “spotless Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world” while hanging totally naked nailed to a Holy Cross.



Job 17:6 (NIV) God has made me* (*Jesus) a byword to everyone* (*that is when “God the Father laid on HIM the iniquity of us all”), A MAN IN WHOSE FACE PEOPLE SPIT* (*this is about the most paramount prophecy about Jesus Christ! Preachers play cool on this one for obvious reasons!).



Many years after Jesus died, the Christian NT Bible writers run amok. coming up with events in the alleged life of God the Son Jesus Christ that fulfill Bible prophecies, and this is one of them! It is kinda dungy spiritually speaking, of course, but there is hardly any other “prophecy” in the Bible that the NT writers made fit more precisely than that one, from the Book of Job!



Matthew 26:67 (NIV) Then they SPIT IN HIS FACE and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him.

Matthew 27:30 (NIV) They SPIT ON HIM, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.

Mark 14:65 (NIV) Then some began to SPIT AT HIM; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him.

Mark 15:19a (NIV) Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and SPIT ON HIM.



That’s almost a gallon of Goy spit, not Jewish, but Gentile spit! The Christians go wild preaching that the Jews rejected Jesus, but the ultimate form of the most humiliating spitting rejection ever put together comes from the Romans, not from the Jews! There is no record that the Jews paid the Romans to spit on Jesus’ face, either! The Gospel writers imply that there was something very repulsive about Jesus’ personality that invited a lot of Roman spit! No Holy Roman authority EVER apologized for having had a field day spitting on Jesus’ face, and for having nailed him on a Holy ROMAN Cross. The Roman Christians were ruling Europe for so many centuries, but they always blamed the Jews! I am telling like it is, and I still keep getting email calling me a blasphemer!



There is no historical record that the Roman soldiers ever let their victims take a shower after a heavy dose of spitting. Honestly, the Roman soldiers were not known to chew tobacco, or to spit on anybody! The Bible writers had to show that this prophecy about “spitting on his face” was fulfilled! There is no record that the Roman soldiers dressed any of their victim’s genital area in a white diaper before nailing them to any cross no matter how holy! There is no record that the Romans crucified anybody in Jerusalem, either. The Romans were much better known to IMPALE their victims driving a thick pole into the victim’s rectum and forcing them to stand on it until the pole would eventually pierce the heart or lung killing them by their own body weight! The thicker the pole, the longer it took for the victim to die! The Roman soldiers had plenty of fun that way! Jesus hardly suffered a sissy man’s death hanging his full body weight so gently from a nail in each hand. The nails can’t possibly hold anybody hanging in there for any length of time! Christians are brainwashed to believe that crucifixion is the most tormenting death ever invented! Not so! Impalement would have been a real pain in Jesus’ anal cavity and still fulfill Bible prophecy about “hanging on a tree!” If Jesus were to have a pole jammed up into his anus his eyes would be popping out of their orbit, and he would be crying out like a charm non-stop day and night, for his Daddy God watching from the Sky! According to the Christian Bible writers, Jesus Christ was able to conduct a long painless conversation with his peers nailed to the other crosses, and with some of the guests at the crucifixion site, and with the Roman soldiers that crucified him, all in “Yiddish,” although the conscripted Roman foot soldiers spoke only Latin (Luke 23:38)! Obviously the whole “crucifixion” story is a hoax, and I want my money back!



Throughout the Bible, the Bible writers were very much in the spitting fetish…



Revelation 3:16 (NIV) (Jesus said) So, because you* (*good Christians, but in the wrong Church) are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to SPIT YOU OUT of my mouth* (*like spent tobacco!!!).



About 500 years ago, the Protestants wised up and removed the hanging corpse Jesus Christ from the Cross. Now, only Catholics still display a dead body nailed to the Holy Cross. Human gullibility, aka “faith” is a mighty powerful force! ALL Christians and Catholics must snack on Jesus’ spit flavored Meat and drink his sweaty blood in the Sacrament of the Holy Communion, aka “The Lord’s Supper” to go to “Heaven” when they die! Christianity is a very primitive religion. Most people in America are unable to function without it!



I believe that there are some serious flaws in Christianity that need to be addressed. I am fully aware that my answers upset a lot of professional preachers, and perhaps some members of the Clergy, but they know that Christianity is not going to collapse overnight. I try to be a polite as I can. I am sorry if I have unduly offended anybody.
2009-07-24 14:13:44 UTC
All those rules that you've mentioned are perfectly logical.
?
2009-07-24 14:14:40 UTC
Get over yourself.

GOD ISENT REAL.

The sooner you understand this the sooner you'll start really living.


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