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Do you find religion interesting?

  • 18-11-2008 12:13am
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    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Although you may lack belief, do you still find religion/religious stories to be of interest?

    Personally I've always enjoyed old testament type stories, in the same way I would enjoy Greek mythology. The cheesy lessons and supernatural explanations for now logical things in life appeal to me somehow.

    Anybody agree?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    If I didn't find it interesting i wouldn't post in Christianity, or here for that matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    I do find it interesting alright, I find the New Testament a fascinating subject, not so much the Old Testament though, its too ridiculous for my liking really.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    As it has played such a massive part in shaping the vast majority known human cultures, from a cultural and historical point of view I certainly find it a very interesting topic. If not the finer details of course.

    I admit to enjoying a wander around old churches and catherdrals now and again as well.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Just as an insight into the human mind.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Weidii


    Just as an insight into the human mind.

    Precisely. It's interesting to observe the dynamics of religion, how different people absorb and portray it, how they react to and live with it.

    The material itself would hold little interest to me, if I wanted to read a preachy-styled epic I woulda' gone for Lord of the Rings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    I find it very interesting, I love trying to figure out how its such a force in society and using it to gain insight into how the mind works. I like the stories and the buildings and the mystery.

    As far as scripture goes for me the bible is a good read, the Qur’an is a bit boring, the bhagavad gita has some nice pictures and the Principia Discordia just rocks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Although you may lack belief, do you still find religion/religious stories to be of interest?

    Personally I've always enjoyed old testament type stories, in the same way I would enjoy Greek mythology. The cheesy lessons and supernatural explanations for now logical things in life appeal to me somehow.

    Anybody agree?

    I find religion fascinating because I find humans fascinating :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    Do you find religion interesting?

    Yes. It's fascinating that otherwise intelligent people can believe or at least claim to believe all sorts of bizarre and even impossible things when those same things come under the banner of religion. There's obviously a powerful psychological effect at work and I find that interesting, especially since it's so ubiquitous throughout society and across many different cultures. For that reason, and not to mention it's impact on cultural development, it can't be dismissed out of hand as it obviously fulfills a need in alot of people's minds that rationalised thought does not. Why that is I do not know exactly, but the process of trying to understand it a little better is interesting nonetheless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    aidan24326 wrote: »
    Yes. It's fascinating that otherwise intelligent people can believe or at least claim to believe all sorts of bizarre and even impossible things when those same things come under the banner of religion. There's obviously a powerful psychological effect at work and I find that interesting, especially since it's so ubiquitous throughout society and across many different cultures. For that reason, and not to mention it's impact on cultural development, it can't be dismissed out of hand as it obviously fulfills a need in alot of people's minds that rationalised thought does not. Why that is I do not know exactly, but the process of trying to understand it a little better is interesting nonetheless.

    Couldn't have put it better myself. I just can't get enough reading material on this kind of stuff. It's totally compelling.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    Yes very interesting, Im going to Isreal next february and enjoying the bible !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Of course I find it interesting. But then I always have read way too much on stuff I don't subscribe to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    I find it interesting alright, but more from a sociological and psychological perspective than theological. I don't really have as much interest in what people believe, rather I'm interested in why they believe it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    The bible contains some of the best comedy and fiction I have ever read.
    I love a good read of Gideons when I am stuck in a hotel somewhere and bored.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    It depends how you mean. I'm extremely interested in religion because I am deeply opposed to it.

    I love the mythology of some religions, like old Greek and Norse. I find the monothesims rather bland, and the fact they are my ideological anti-theses further takes away from their entertainment value.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,737 ✭✭✭Asiaprod


    Wicknight wrote: »
    I find religion fascinating because I find humans fascinating :)
    +1:)


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