Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What doe fear have to do with belief?“, Leave a Reply below!
Nothing. Fear is a tool for controlling the masses.
Everything. Fear is a tool for controlling the masses.
Religious beliefs are a security blanket against the unknown and so a defence mechanism against fear. Also beliefs form our vision of the world, when they are challenged we feel lost in the world and so experience fear.
People will believe anything if they can be convinced to fear it might be true.
All of us have to deal with the idea or belief in death. There is part of us that doesn’t acknowlege death. Then there’s the part of ourselves that knows the game we call our lives will come to an end.
The higher your overall bias or bias belief the more frightening the spectre of death becomes. If it is not overt fear then it will be more like entrenched anxiety. The higher your bias or center of attention level the more likely it will link to some kind of fear bias.
A bias field is where the person does not choose to look beyond or understand more or try to perceive the nature of something.
If you have fear, then you have to try to suppress, and you get a whole mess of convolution.
When life becomes a game of material success then most of your “inner player” exists at fairly high levels of bias. Some folks can live with it, others have more difficulty.
i think “the Jesus version of christianity” is largely about acknowledging the ongoing nature of life and the “integrating” nature of reality. It seems “magical” if you “never go there” or are a prisoner to common knowledge. i tend to think fear can become “multiplied” in humans because of the intense gaming nature that accompanies “success” in society. If you want to be “successful” then it is best to be a master of common knowlege, but if your intelligence depends on common knowledge, beliefs can become well entrenched and immobile.
For those who feel comfortable living with fear will feel comfortable keeping fear in their religion.
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In my view of my own personal belief system: absolutely NOTHING. I want to know truth FIRST. Everything after that is up to me to handle, and my fear or lack thereof has no bearing on truth. The universe is under positively no obligation to provide me with comfort or anything else. It’s up to me to avoid allowing fear to keep me from seeking truth, and it’s also up to me to never allow fear to prevent me from accepting what truth I seem to find.
As all living things do, we have an instinctive fight-or-flight reaction; of the many things to which it will react, one of them is the unknown. Those who succumb to this impulse generally do so fearfully and those reactions are responsible for the initial beliefs that spawned the majority of religions. Those who react aggressively are much more rare and generally spawn militant denominations of other well-known religions.
The true aim of religion in a spiritual sense is just like that of science, to eliminate fear by transforming the unknown to the known. Religion does this with convenient assumptions that fit the cursory observations that were capable when religion was first born so long ago, while science does it with facts and logic. Ironically, religion as a factor of control instead turns the fear of the unknown toward a fear of something known only by the specific, in order to keep people in line with the religion’s way of thinking only.
Fear is a driving force for may belief systems. It is at the core of brainwashing as well.
Truth is a driving force for reasoned inquiry, which is why scientists do not throw tantrums when they are shown to be in error.
Those who would promote religious ideas that fly in the face of scientific fact fear the spread of knowledge and the proper education of their children.
People often fear what they do not understand, so they seek the security blanket of mythology.
We fear because we care. We fear the loss or destruction of someone or something we love or care about. It is a package deal. Quite often fear can start us on our path. It is sad that churches prey on fears rather than help the seekers grow.
Wizard’s First Rule…
Nothing important.
Fear is a tool employed by an oppressor to control belief. Or it can be a personal reaction to perceiving that you are wrong. Either way, it has a negative affect.
everything. belief in supernatural is fear incarnate. fear of death, fear of hell, fear of the rage of your parents. everything