-skeptics--skeptics-?

Question

why are you skeptical of things just because they don't make sense?

Answer 1

It is natural to be skeptical of things that don't make sense.  If you can't see or sense something directly the natural reaction is to doubt it.

As for god/creators/gods whatever you want to call it/him/her.  Yes I am skeptical.  That doesn't mean I don't feel there is one (or many).  It just means since I can't see, touch, feel it/him/her that I'm skeptical.

Answer 2

I believe in God and in Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit. I'm not skeptical in the least. I'm a Christian.

Answer 3

The word 'skeptic' has come to mean a person who doesn't believe something.  It might be anything, but if you don't believe it you are a skeptic, as if that's something bad.

But the original meaning of 'skeptic' is a person who believes nothing can be known for sure.  Of course in science nothing -is- known for sure.  The only place you find absolute truth is in religion.  And not all religions.

I believe in God and I am skeptical even of him.  Not just whether he exists but what he's like.  If he does exist, it's pretty obvious that it's his deliberate plan to hide from us.  I mean he could just appear in the sky and tell us stuff and then there'd be no question.  Instead he leaves us to wonder about things, to figure out things for ourselves, and he gives us the curiosity and the intellectual capacity to do this.

I -am- skeptical of things that don't make sense to me.  I have had many conversations with fundamentalist Christians where I will ask one a question about some point of doctrine, and he will say 'Well, I can't really explain it.  I'm afraid I don't really understand it.'  But you believe it?  "Oh yes!  With all my heart!"  How can you BELIEVE something you don't even UNDERSTAND?

The thing is, if everyone did what I do, read and learn about all religions to find the wisdom in them, to compare and contrast, and just pick and choose those ideas that seem reasonable and believable to me to believe in, then organized religion would cease to exist.  Everyone would have his own individual set of beliefs.  I think that would be better, for those who cared enough to go to the trouble, but it would be worse for the big, powerful spiritual leaders who marshal their flocks as spiritual armies by imposing cookie-cutter beliefs on them.