In the film, Bill mainly focuses on Christianity and Islam (without mentioning Buddhism), I think it is because Western countries are more familiar with these two types of religions. The absurdity that Bill is trying to reveal is mainly of two types: one is the absurdity of the doctrine itself, such as the virgins in the Bible, God’s creation of man, the day of judgment, etc.; the other is the absurdity in the thinking or behavior of modern believers, such as Catholicism. Cathedral, some believers believe that there is a sign of God and so on.
Before the end of the film, Bill said a long speech, the core of which is-religion makes people "believe" without thinking, and what he hopes to use this film to promote is "doubt." In fact, I doubt that religious people will accept the views of this film, or they think Bill himself is ridiculous!
Here, I don’t want to provoke a controversy about religious beliefs. What I want to discuss more is: "On what basis do you judge whether a thing is credible?". I think this is the core of the problem!
For example, Bill interviewed a fat shopkeeper in the film. He claimed to have seen many miracles of existence shown to him in his life. One of the examples was that he prayed for rain once, and then it rained immediately. In my opinion, this cannot be evidence of the existence of God. 1) This is a special case. After all, it is not every time he asks for rain to succeed; 2) Even if the phenomenon of “success in asking for rain” occurs, theories explaining this phenomenon can be In many cases, in addition to proposing phenomena, there is evidence that "God exists" and not other reasons.
Religion always answers these philosophical questions: 1) How did this world come into being? 2) In particular, how do people come into being? 3) What happens after a person dies? 4) The root of ethics (for example, why do good, why not lie, why not kill, etc.)? 5) The purpose of life?
I have always felt that the difference between religious people and ordinary people is that most people may not think about these philosophical issues in their daily lives. Religious people often think about these questions, or think that they know the answers to these questions. Sometimes, I think this is the benefit that religion brings to people. For example, you firmly believe that you already know the purpose of this life, and you will live easier and happier if you want to come.
But is the religion's answer to these questions credible? How do you judge as a religious believer?
I was having dinner with a few friends tonight. One of my Christian friends replied that when I mentioned "how to judge whether the words of religion (or the Bible) are trustworthy", it shows that I am "proud" and not "humble" enough before God. You can understand God with your own intelligence. For this friend of mine, I understand her logic is "when a certain sentence appears in the Bible, it is credible." It is absurd to question the Bible itself.
I don't know if this is just her personal view or the basic view of Christianity. I don't agree with this logic of judgment.
When someone promotes a certain argument to me, I am actually more interested in why he believes this argument?
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