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fandomsecrets2008-06-28 05:15 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-06-28 05:15 pm
[ SECRET POST #540 ]
⌈ Secret Post #540 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: 143
But why one, and not the other? What makes one so special?
I have unfortunately never seen any of the X-Files, but I can gather that despite Scully and Mulder's differences of opinion on the topic, the show is about uncovering mysteries, right? Eventually they're going to look into something to see if it is true or not. When you go to church, you don't go there looking to uncover evidence of the existence of God, because you already take it for granted. I honestly don't know enough about the characters to say anything else on that. -.-;
And believing in the possibility of life on other planets isn't necessarily as baseless as something like fairies... then again, I am talking about a possibility only.
So what is the qualifying category, then, the element that makes something convincing? Beyond the agnostic 'possibility that there may be something out there', what makes a religion plausible? Is it how many people practice it, or whether your friends practice it, or how old the religion is, or is it how many places it was written down? Aliens and fairies and Scientology are thought to be nonsense by the majority of the population of... well, the world. Because everybody else believes something to be true, does that make it so?
They're all the same to me, so I want to know why God is easier to believe in than Santa Claus.
Re: 143
Alright, smaltz aside... It's probably because, when I was 8, I discovered "Santa Claus'" presents to me in my older sister's bedroom before I fell asleep on Christmas Eve. Basically -- we adults know *for certain* where those presents are *really* coming from.
God is just too big an entitiy, idea.... thing... and people experience him in many different ways. Frankly, Christianity is just one choice, and itself has much variety in how things are interpreted (see my other comments).
The whole "God" idea is such that... we are going to proove it to anybody - belief is a personal choice, but neither are you going to be able to disproove him to anybody who truly believes.
I look at the Bible and I see stuff that makes sense to me (as outrageous as that sounds). I look at some of the general beliefs of other religious and they make sense to me too, while other aspects do not. I don't believe in Santa Claus because I found those presents. However, I've had prayers answered and have been comforted in dark times.
Maybe Santa Claus is easier to believe in for you, but my personal experience speaks differently. And that's all it is... personal decisions and personal experience.