What are some questions that I can ask a preist, anthropologist and psychologist?

Question

about Religion, Specifically dealign with the issue of freewill, morality and the origin of religion?

Answer 1

A social or cultural anthropologist - if they happen to have studied this - could tell you what varieties of religions tend to develop in different environmental contexts, how colonially imposed religions are fused with indigenous beliefs (i.e. colonial catholocism in Latin America), and whether there are any universal religious symbols or patterns? Many anthropologists use the term 'agency' as a euphemistic way of arguing for free will without actually saying that people have free will (please don't ask why). So you could certainly ask what agency means to an anthropologist and what its relationship to free will is.

A priest is likely to be able to answer any questions you can imagine regarding these subjects at least from the perspective of their religion.  

A psychologist is likely to be able to tell you whether there are any particular personality types that tend to correlate with religious belief or specific forms of religion, what psychological need is fulfilled by religion (origins), whether psychology itself makes any assumptions about the existence of freewill (Freud certainly did, but not so much Jung), and what psychological purpose morality serves (huge question - you might want to give the psychologist a few beers before you ask, or be prepared to pay an hourly cost for the answer).

Answer 2

ask the preist  why did God make everything?  why is there evil yet good?  why is there so many wars and people suffering yet people can be so kind and caring?  why is there, when some one is down, that no one will pick them up?  why is the a two year old that starves while his mother spends all of the money on crack?  why does a person having everything going for them suddenly die?    what kind of God would do that to the innocent?        those are questions you could ask

Answer 3

Your question sounds like the setup to a joke.

Answer 4

I would ask them all why people seem to have a need to believe that there is something out there beyond what we can see.  Why do people believe in ghosts, UFOs, karma, etc?  I think it would be interesting to see how those three different people answer that same question.

Also, why do people accept any made up story they are given about the way the world works?  When people experienced natural events, like rain, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and so forth, they wondered what caused it.  So people made up stories about gods and spirits causing those events.  But why would people rather believe those made-up stories than accept not knowing how everything works?

Answer 5

do they know the exact location of the eden garden?

do they really care about the starving children in Africa?

Answer 6

If he is a PhD Psychologist, with clinical experience, which he is probably not, you can ask him the following:

Name two psychiatric disorders that may account for the success of evangelism in general and televangelism in particular.

On Anthropology, ask him what primate has been identified as the ancestor or both old world monkeys and modern primates.

If you don't wish to really test him, do not ask these two questions.